Full Description
The Korean Case for Youth Language Learning is a collection of chapters which address the complexities at the intersection of Korean language learning, the global popularity of Korean culture, and Generation Z learners' characteristics.
The chapters included in this volume portray learning contexts spread across five continents, and adopt a wide array of research methodologies, including but not limited to thematic analysis, discourse analysis, and Q methodology, to touch on important topics such as policy and curricular constraints, pedagogical approaches, and Generation Z language learners' identity, motivation, and emotions. This volume serves as a springboard for further policy-focused, pedagogical, and empirical investigations into what the local setting, in terms of socio-cultural environment and educational infrastructure, brings into young learners' experience of learning the Korean language.
This book is a valuable guide for global teachers of Korean who seek to understand learners' behaviour and preferences in the K-wave era, as well as policymakers within language learning education.
Contents
Introduction: Generation Z and Korean language learning.
Part 1. Policies, curricula, and assessment
1. Learning Korean in high school: The Year 11 and 12 Korean language syllabi in Victoria and Western Australia.
2. Flourishing but with challenges: Korean language education for young Vietnamese learners.
3. Teaching Korean in Japanese High Schools: Structure, materials and assessments.
4. Korean language at the secondary level in Taiwan: Learners, policies, and resources.
Part 2. Teaching methods and learning practices
5. The impact of the Korean Wave on Korean language studies in Israel.
6. Transcending educational boundaries: The impact of eTandem virtual exchange among generation Z learners of Korean.
7. From the classroom to variety shows, films, and web-novels: Korean language learning in Kenya.
8. Korean Wave and informal language learning: Learners' perspectives in online spaces.
9. Korean language learning beyond the classroom in young Korean Australians.
Part 3. Learners' individual differences
10. Young learner perspectives on semi-formal, extracurricular Korean language learning in the UK.
11. Transitioning from high school: Chinese students' triggers to major in Korean Language and Literature at university.
12. Korean language learning among Turkish students: Young learners' perspectives, motivation and vision.
13. Enjoyment in learning Korean as a foreign language: Learner subjectivity in Thailand.
