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Korean / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Explore and reflect on the impact of social, cultural and intercultural changes such asglobalisation and new technologies on Korean as a language of local, international and virtual communication and ontheir own individual use of language
[Key concepts: globalisation, influence, digital media; Key processes:researching, explaining, reflecting]
(ACLKOU188)
Elaborations
- examining how the creation ofHangeul impacted on the common people’s lives in a kingdom in 15th-century Korea, and discussing the role ofscript in aspects of culture and everyday life
- exploring how globalisation has accelerated the use of English words and expressions in Koreanlanguage use, and discussing the advantages/disadvantages of these influences on languages, such as using technologicalterminology (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 onchanges in their own language/s, identifying new terms and behaviours that they have adopted with changes in technologyand 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 orphrases)
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Language evolution, Korean language