Ji-Young Jung – författare

Korean is the seventh most commonly spoken language in the U.S., and Korean heritage students - those with some proficiency in or a cultural connection to the language through family or community - outnumber others learning Korean at the college level. Many schools offer a separate heritage track for learning Korean, but until now there has been no textbook designed specifically for heritage or accelerated curriculum students.Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 and 2 directly address the linguistic needs and abilities of heritage learners in a single academic year. Volume 1 presents lessons on thematically organized subjects, starting with familiar topics such as family, friends, daily routines, schoolwork, campus activities, dining out, and shopping. Volume 2 advances to more formal subjects beyond family and friends, such as travel, transportation, housing, holidays, lifestyles, careers, and Korean history and culture. Students approach the lessons with multi-level communicative classroom activities and reading materials with standards-based exercises and projects that not only address the particular language requirements of heritage learners, but also encourage them to participate more fully in their own family and community life. Each volume's textbook and workbook offer authentic conversations and texts in both informal and formal contexts, structured tasks, and a wealth of interesting and relevant cultural content.Audio files for Accelerated Korean may be downloaded in MP3 format.

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: High Advanced 1, the ninth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All the series’ volumes have been created in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology—contextualization, learner-centeredness, use of authentic materials, usage-orientedness, balance between skill getting and skill using, and integration of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and culture. The new editions of High Advanced are the first to implement the goals set forth in the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by National Standards for Korean, published by the American Association of Teachers of Korean in 2015.All lessons are content-based and address a wide variety of topics chosen to meet students’ interests and needs. Authentic examples of texts provided include news, magazine, and interview articles; academic texts; and essays. Each content-based lesson incorporates learning objectives based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ Five Cs and includes pre-lesson activities, a main reading, vocabulary exercises, comprehension questions, discussion and debate activities, and further reading.Integrated Korean is a project of the Korean Language Education and Research Center (KLEAR) with the support of the Korea Foundation. In addition to course textbooks and workbooks, KLEAR volumes include the Korean Reader for Chinese Characters, Korean Composition, Selected Readings in Korean, Readings in Modern Korean Literature, Korean Language in Culture and Society, and A Resource for Korean Grammar Instruction. A Dictionary of Korean Grammar and Usage is forthcoming.