Content description VCKOU188

Korean: F–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Language variation and change

Content description

Explore and reflect on the impact of social, cultural and intercultural changes such as globalisation and new technologies on Korean as a language of local, international and virtual communication and on their own individual use of language

Elaborations

examining how the creation of Hangeul impacted on the common people’s lives in a kingdom in 15th-century Korea, and discussing the role of script in aspects of culture and everyday life
exploring how globalisation has accelerated the use of English words and expressions in Korean language use, and discussing the advantages/disadvantages of these influences on languages, such as using technological terminology (for example, 인터넷, 키워드) or mixing Korean and English as lyrics in contemporary Korean popular music
examining how acronyms or short forms of words are used in Korean and in English (for example, 쌤, 여친, 남친, ‘ASAP’,‘RSVP’), and discussing how these forms reflect people’s changing lifestyles
reflecting on changes in their own language/s, identifying new terms and behaviours that they have adopted with changes in technology and social media, and on how such terms and behaviours have become part of everyday language used in different modes (for example, handwritten notes using language for electronic messaging, acronyms or emoticons replacing whole words or phrases)

Code

VCKOU188

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