AC9LK8EU03 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor compare Korean language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying the purpose, intended audience and key language features of short texts such as road signs or instructions, and comparing these with English versions of similar texts, for example, 천천히 versus ‘drive slowly’, 미세요/당기세요 versus ‘push’/‘pull’
• • Elaboration identifying conventions of familiar text types such as letters, emails or greeting/invitation cards, and comparing them with English, for example, salutations, the order of elements in an address, and format of the date, … 에게, … 로부터, 4월 3일 금요일
• • Elaboration recognising the similarities in key features of Korean and English texts such as stories, songs and conversation
• • Elaboration observing how differently abbreviated forms in multimedia and social media are accepted in Korean and English, for example, 쌤, 여친, 남친
• • Elaboration collecting and analysing samples of language from multimodal texts to explore differences in communicative style and expression between social groups in Korean and Australian cultures, for example, 어서 오세요 to mean “Welcome”, and 밥 먹었어요? to mean “How are you?”