This thesis concerns curriculum design for the high school credit program in Korean
Language at Sup sogiii Hosu (Lake in the Woods), the Korean Language Village (KLV) at
Concordia Language Villages (CLV). It reviews the main features and principles of the draft
curriculum for the Korean Language Village 4-week high school credit program, evaluates
the design based on the classroom results of the inaugural credit session, discusses the
feasibility of a total immersion approach in Korean learning for speakers of English, and
suggests further directions for Korean immersion curriculum development using WebCT
tools. The entire draft curriculum, covering two years of high school curriculum, is presented
as an appendix. Along with a general review of immersion, this study also contains a general
review of CLV's educational philosophy and its actual program features, and suggests the
critical role that KLV can play in facilitating Korean education in the U.S., where the need
for more effective Korean language education is rapidly increased. The thesis also discusses
the importance of Korean language education for the Korean adoptees who make up a
significant portion of the KLV population, and calls for the reform of existing Korean
education programs targeted mainly at 2n d generation Koreans in the U.S.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/12420 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Choi, Junghwa |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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