Module Catalogue

SML4007 : Korean II

  • Offered for Year: 2024/25
  • Available for Study Abroad and Exchange students, subject to proof of pre-requisite knowledge.
  • Module Leader(s): Dr Gitte Marianne Hansen
  • Owning School: Modern Languages
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 1 Credit Value: 10
Semester 2 Credit Value: 10
ECTS Credits: 10.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

This module builds upon the foundation in language systems provided in SML2017, while continuing
to develop reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. You will learn new grammar (see below for details). By the end, you will be communicating with confidence, both orally and in writing, in simple everyday situations.

The aims of the module are:

(1) To build upon the basic foundation in the language systems provided in SML2017 with a view to
further study.
(2) To allow students to continue to develop receptive (reading and listening) and productive (writing and speaking) skills.
(3) To continue to provide students with skills necessary to become better language learners.
(4) to gain some knowledge of the culture of Korea.

Outline Of Syllabus

These are the Communication and Grammar that will be covered in this module:

Communication: Vocabulary; Speaking and Listening skills:
- Seeking agreement
- Talking about important dates
- Date, days, and schedules
- Organizing a birthday party
- Expressing desire
- Expressing reservations
- Making an apology and giving reasons
- Asking someone’s opinion
- Extending, accepting, and declining invitations
- Setting up a get-together
- Talking about favourite activities
- Describing feelings
- Describing weather
- Indicating possibility and capability
- Listening to weather forecasts
- Describing physical appearance
- Shopping

Grammar:
- Deferential style ending
- Irregular predicates
- Demonstrative expressions
- The noun-modifying forms (present, past, prospective, retrospective)
- Subject honorific suffix
- The clausal connectives (background information, sequential, cause, reason, etc)
- Negative commands
- Negation (2)
- The progressive form
- Conjectural suffix
- Comparative construction
- Intentional ending form
- The conditional clause

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesPractical12:002:00Oral exam to take place at the end of Semester 2
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching212:0042:00PIP language seminars
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study1561:00156:00N/A
Total200:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Private study ensures students will process the in-class taught materials. The Language Resource Centre is ideal for this support.
In order to allow students to develop language skills best, language teaching is integrated (oral, aural, and writing skills), rather than compartmentalised. This allows seminars to simulate real-life situations. Class tests and group learning are continuous as this helps students develop their skills most holistically.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Exams
Description Length Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Oral Examination152M30An integrated test of oral and aural skills.
Written Examination1202A70Assessing grammar, vocabulary, reading and writing
Formative Assessments

Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.

Description Semester When Set Comment
Written exercise1MSet by the teacher according to course progress
Written exercise2MSet by the teacher according to course progress
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Written examination (70%) - In the 120-minute exam students will be assessed their knowledge of grammar and vocab as well as reading and writing skills.

Oral examination (30%) – In the 15-minute exam students will be assessed communication skills that they have practiced in class. The oral examination is an integrated test of oral and aural skills.


Resit – 100% written exam

Reading Lists

Timetable