The Pear Film: A pedagogical tool for intermediate to advanced learners of Korean.
Authors: Susan Strauss
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This publication is forthcoming.

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:

INVESTIGATE HOW NATIVE SPEAKERS OF KOREAN TELL NARRATIVES BY

  • introducing participants in a story
  • expressing sequences of events
  • indicating cause and effect
  • presenting personal stances and perspectives
  • choose context-appropriate NOUNS, VERBS, PARTICLES

HAVE STUDENTS PRODUCE THEIR OWN EXTENDED NARRATIVES BASED ON A SPECIFIC STORY BY

  • learning new vocabulary
  • learning grammatical constructions for event sequences
  • learning grammatical constructions for cause and effect
  • learning the overall narrative structure, including beginnings and endings
  • telling narratives orally or writing the story on paper

CAN BE USED FOR OTHER CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES INCLUDING:

  • listening comprehension (e.g., comprehension questions, dictation)
  • vocabulary games (bingo, jeopardy, concentration)
  • grammar games
  • supplementary review of particles
  • supplementary review of tense and aspect marking
  • work on new narratives using structures and grammar features from this lesson

WHAT THIS INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE PROVIDES:
A CD-Rom package containing:

  • A short six-minute film (The Pear Film, Chafe (1980))
  • 3 Native Speaker audio files
  • 1 Heritage Speaker audio file
  • 8 Intermediate-Advanced learner audio files
  • 1 full transcript of a native speaker narrative
  • 3 full transcripts of intermediate-advanced student narratives
  • a resource guide with ideas for how to use the film, the audio files, and transcripts

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