Gift Giving
선물하기
Korean Heritage Language Teachers’ Project
NHLRC/STARTALK 2012
Heritage Language Teacher Workshop
July 16-20, 2012
Los Angeles, California
Hee Ju, Mijeong Kim, Ok-Sook Park, Jaemin Roh
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1st Birthday Celebration gifts
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60th Birthday Celebration Gifts
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Wedding Gifts
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Background Information for Unit
Theme: Gift giving practices and traditions
Age: 9 college students enrolled in HL class
Language Level:
- Listening & Speaking: Intermediate
- Reading & Writing: Novice-mid/Novice-high
Time Frame: 4 class periods (50 minutes each)
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Korean HL Learner Profile
Background
– Children of small business owners/professionals
– Exposure to Korean: Community Korean Schools,
one or two years
• Primary care giver: grandparents, parents
– Grandparents : Primarily monolingual Korean speakers
– Parents: Korean and English
• Sequential bilinguals
• Presence of Korean culture in daily lives
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Korean HL Learner Profile
Social-Linguistic Context
• Family and relatives
• Religious groups and student organizations
• Korean language programs
• Study-abroad and travel
• Media and Internet:
- Film, drama, variety shows, news
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Korean HL Learner Profile
 Students’ Strengths
• Comprehension of concrete vocabulary
• Speaking with string of simple sentences
• Writing with string of simple sentences
 Students’ Weaknesses
• Use of honorifics, irregular verbs, relative clauses,
connectives
• Limited writing skills, spelling errors
• Limited vocabulary
• Misuse of registers
• Pronunciation – sound discrimination and intonation
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Desired Outcome
 Students will be able to use appropriate register
and terms for gift-giving occasions such as 돌 (1st
birthday), 환갑 (60th birthday), 결혼 (wedding),
장례식 (funeral), etc. in the interviews
 Students will understand various gift-giving
practices in a Korean community
 Students will be able to talk about gift-giving
practices and learn proper etiquettes
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Unit Plan
Day 1: Scaffolding activities
– pictures, survey, vocabulary
Day 2: Reading activities
Day 3: Creating interview questions, interview
elders over the weekend
Day 4: Presentations
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Day 1: Scaffolding Activities
Goals:
Introduce unit topic
Introduce essential words related to gift-giving
in special occasions
Compare and contrast gift-giving cultures in
Korea and in the U.S.
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Day 1: Scaffolding Activities
Material:
Pictures
Survey
Distribute reading material: “What gift do you
give for these special occasions?” “이런 때 어떤
선물을 사세요?”
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Day 1: Scaffolding Activities
Comparing 1st birthday pictures
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Day 1: Scaffolding Activities
Survey: Compare and contrast different practices of
gift-giving or receiving across cultures.
My family
Korea
U.S.
1st year birthday (돌)
Birthdays (생일)
60th birthday (환갑)
Graduation (졸업)
Wedding (결혼)
Funerals (장례식)
Christmas (크리스마스)
New year’s Day (설날)
Valentine Day (발렌타인데이)
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Day 2: Reading Activities
 Reading material “What gift do you give for these
special occasions? 이런 때 어떤 선물을 사세요?” is
presented as Word Cloud. Students discuss relevant
vocabulary (10 min)
 Differentiated Teaching: Students are grouped into 3
groups: Novice-Intermediate-Advanced
 Each group answers comprehension questions; Novice
level answers #1-5, Intermediate level answers #6-10,
Advanced level answers #11-15 (15 min)
 The whole group shares all the answers # 1-15 (15 min)
 Students report Exit Card by the end of the day (5 min)
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Day 3: Creating Interview Questions
 Students design interview questions on giftgiving practice in Korean (15 min)
 Whole class instruction on: appropriate and
formal use of registers when addressing to
elders, use of honorifics and interview etiquettes
(20 min)
 Students check with each other whether the
interview questions are valid (10 min)
 Distribute and explain the rubrics of Day 4
presentation (5 min)
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Day 4: Presentation
Student Presentation
- Oral report: Summary of the interviews
(5 minutes x 9 = 45 minutes )
- Use PowerPoint slides
(No sentences, keywords only)
- Audience fills out presentation summary chart
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Day 4: Presentation
Audience fills out presentation summary chart
while listening to each report.
Presenters
Interviewee
Giver
What
When
Solomon
Kim
Grandfather
Uncle
Travel to
Korea
60th
birthday
Comments
…
…
…
…
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Day 4: Presentation
Presentation assessment rubric
(Check point: 1 lowest – 5 highest)
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2
3
4
Fluency
V
Accuracy
V
Use of
honorifics
V
Vocabulary
V
PowerPoint
5
V
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Conclusion: 5 C’s
Real-world use in
student’s home and
community, Participating
in discussions and
practices of gift-giving
Interpersonal, Interpretive,
Presentational (Interview,
presentation)
Gift-giving
traditions, special
occasions
Practice of giftgiving and special
occasions
Language, history,
sociology, medicine,
business/economics
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