A Discourse-pragmatic Approach to Advanced Korean


Materials for Advanced and High-intermediate Learners of Korean which focus on discourse-pragmatic features of naturally spoken Korean.

Project 2010-2014: Genres of Oral, Written, and Technology-mediated Communication

Objectives: This project will create media-based teaching materials that highlight common elements of genre in oral, written, and technology-mediated modalities of communication. The materials will focus on the Communication standard developed by the National Standards Task Force of the American Association of Teachers of Korean.

Project Director: Susan Strauss, The Pennsylvania State University

Teaching and Learning Materials:

Korean Grammar in Discourse and Interaction by Susan Strauss, Penn State, University Park, PA: CALPER Publications, 2005-2008.
Unit 1: Completive Aspect Markers
Unit 2: Honorific Speech Levels
Unit 3: Newly Perceived Information
Unit 4: Route Directions
Unit 5: Noun Modifiers
Unit 6: Relative Clause Constructions

Korean Culture and Media Series by Susan Strauss, Penn State, University Park, PA: CALPER Publications, 2008-2009.
Unit 1: TV Commercials and Korean Culture
Unit 2: A Comparative Approach to Culture through TV Commercials: The Case of Korea and The U.S.
Unit 3: "The King and the Clown" (Film Series)
Unit 4: "Le Grand Chef" (Film Series)
Unit 5: "Radio Star" (Film Series)

Narrating in Korean by Susan Strauss, Penn State, University Park, PA: CALPER Publications, 2008-2009.
This instructional resource, designed for high school and college level teachers of Korean, provides an entire set of materials that can be used in the classroom for multiple purposes.




Articles:

Strauss, S. (2006). "Learning and teaching grammar through patterns of conceptualization: The case of (advanced) Korean." In H. Byrnes, H. Weger-Guntharp, and K.A. Sprang (Eds.), Educating for advanced foreign language capacities: Constructs, curriculum, instruction, sssessment(pp. 87-102) . Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. [GU Press Link]

Strauss, S., & Ahn, K. (2007). "Cognition through the lens of discourse and interaction: The case of -kwun, -ney, and –tela." In N. McGloin and J. Mori (Eds.), 15th Japanese/Korean Linguistics. Stanford: CSLI.

Strauss, S. (2006). "The television ad as a reflection of culture: The case of Korean, Japan, and the United States." In H. Sohn (Ed.), Korean language in culture and society (pp. 221-233). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.

Strauss, S., Lee, J., & Ahn, K. (2006). "Applying conceptual grammar to advanced-level language teaching: The Case of two completive constructions in Korean", The Modern Language Journal, 90,185-209.