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Gift Giving선물하기Korean Heritage Language Teachers’ Project

NHLRC/STARTALK 2012Heritage Language Teacher Workshop

July 16-20, 2012Los Angeles, California

Hee Ju, Mijeong Kim, Ok-Sook Park, Jaemin Roh

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1st Birthday Celebration gifts

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60th Birthday Celebration Gifts

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Wedding Gifts

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Background Information for UnitTheme: Gift giving practices and traditionsAge: 9 college students enrolled in HL classLanguage Level:

- Listening & Speaking: Intermediate- Reading & Writing: Novice-mid/Novice-high

Time Frame: 4 class periods (50 minutes each)

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Korean HL Learner Profile

Background– Children of small business owners/professionals– Exposure to Korean: Community Korean Schools,

one or two years • Primary care giver: grandparents, parents

– Grandparents : Primarily monolingual Korean speakers– Parents: Korean and English

• Sequential bilinguals• Presence of Korean culture in daily lives

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Social-Linguistic Context• Family and relatives• Religious groups and student organizations • Korean language programs • Study-abroad and travel• Media and Internet:

- Film, drama, variety shows, news

Korean HL Learner Profile

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Students’ Strengths• Comprehension of concrete vocabulary• Speaking with string of simple sentences• Writing with string of simple sentences

Students’ Weaknesses• Use of honorifics, irregular verbs, relative clauses, connectives• Limited writing skills, spelling errors• Limited vocabulary• Misuse of registers• Pronunciation – sound discrimination and intonation

Korean HL Learner Profile

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Desired OutcomeStudents will be able to use appropriate register and

terms for gift-giving occasions such as 돌 (1st birthday), 환갑 (60th birthday), 결혼 (wedding), 장례식 (funeral), etc. in the interviews

Students will understand various gift-giving practices in a Korean community

Students will be able to talk about gift-giving practices and learn proper etiquettes

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Unit Plan

Day 1: Scaffolding activities

– pictures, survey, vocabularyDay 2: Reading activitiesDay 3: Creating interview questions, interview

elders over the weekendDay 4: Presentations

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Day 1: Scaffolding Activities

Goals: Introduce unit topicIntroduce essential words related to gift-giving

in special occasionsCompare and contrast gift-giving cultures in

Korea and in the U.S.

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Day 1: Scaffolding Activities

Material: Pictures SurveyDistribute reading material: “What gift do you

give for these special occasions?” “ 이런 때 어떤 선물을 사세요 ?”

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Day 1: Scaffolding Activities

Comparing 1st birthday pictures

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Day 1: Scaffolding Activities

My family Korea U.S.

1st year birthday ( 돌 )

Birthdays ( 생일 )

60th birthday ( 환갑 )

Graduation ( 졸업 )

Wedding ( 결혼 )

Funerals ( 장례식 )

Christmas ( 크리스마스 )

New year’s Day ( 설날 )

Valentine Day ( 발렌타인데이 )

Survey: Compare and contrast different practices of gift-giving or receiving across cultures.

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Day 2: Reading Activities Reading material “What gift do you give for these special

occasions? 이런 때 어떤 선물을 사세요 ?” is presented as Word Cloud. Students discuss relevant vocabulary (10 min)

Differentiated Teaching: Students are grouped into 3 groups: Novice-Intermediate-Advanced

Each group answers comprehension questions; Novice level answers #1-5, Intermediate level answers #6-10, Advanced level answers #11-15 (15 min)

The whole group shares all the answers # 1-15 (15 min) Students report Exit Card by the end of the day (5 min)

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Day 3: Creating Interview Questions

Students design interview questions on gift-giving practice in Korean (15 min)

Whole class instruction on: appropriate and formal use of registers when addressing to elders, use of honorifics and interview etiquettes (20 min)

Students check with each other whether the interview questions are valid (10 min)

Distribute and explain the rubrics of Day 4 presentation (5 min)

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Day 4: Presentation

Student Presentation - Oral report: Summary of the interviews

(5 minutes x 9 = 45 minutes )

- Use PowerPoint slides (No sentences, keywords only)

- Audience fills out presentation summary chart

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Day 4: Presentation

Audience fills out presentation summary chart while listening to each report.Presenters Interviewee Giver What When Comments

Solomon Kim

Grandfather Uncle Travel to Korea

60th birthday

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Day 4: Presentation

Presentation assessment rubric (Check point: 1 lowest – 5 highest)

1 2 3 4 5

Fluency V

Accuracy V

Use of honorifics

V

Vocabulary V

PowerPoint V

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Interpersonal, Interpretive, Presentational (Interview, presentation)

Language, history, sociology, medicine, business/economics

Gift-giving traditions, special occasions

Practice of gift-giving and special occasions

Real-world use in student’s home and community, Participating in discussions and practices of gift-giving

Conclusion: 5 C’s