Integrated Korean Workbook - (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language) 3rd Edition by Mee-Jeong Park & Mary Shin Kim & Joowon Suh & Seonkyung Jeon

About the Book

"Korean is the seventh most commonly spoken language in the U.S., and Korean heritage students-those with some proficiency in or a cultural connection to the language through family or community-outnumber others learning Korean at the college level. Many schools offer a separate heritage track for learning Korean, but until now there has been no textbook designed specifically for heritage or accelerated curriculum students. Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 and 2 directly address the linguistic needs and abilities of heritage learners in a single academic year. Volume 1 presents lessons on thematically-organized subjects, starting with familiar topics such as family, friends, daily routines, schoolwork, campus activities, dining out, and shopping. Volume 2 advances to more formal subjects beyond family and friends, such as travel, transportation, housing, holidays, lifestyles, careers, and Korean history and culture. Students approach the lessons with multi-level communicative classroom activities and reading materials with standards-based exercises and projects that not only address the particular language requirements of heritage learners, but also encourage them to participate more fully in their own family and community life. Each volume's textbook and workbook offer authentic conversations and texts in both informal and formal contexts, structured tasks, and a wealth of interesting and relevant cultural content"--

Book Synopsis

This workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised third edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 2, the fourth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All the series' volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology--contextualization, learner-centeredness, use of authentic materials, usage-orientedness, balance between skill getting and skill using, and integration of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and culture. Grammar points are systematically introduced in simple but adequate explanations and abundant examples and exercises.

Each situation/topic-based lesson of the main texts consists of model dialogues, narration, new words and expressions, vocabulary notes, culture, grammar, usage, and English translation of dialogues. In response to comments from hundreds of students and instructors of the second edition, this new third edition features an attractive color design with new photos and drawings and lesson and vocabulary exercises that have been fully reorganized. Each lesson contains a conversational text (with its own vocabulary list) and a reading passage. The accompanying workbook--available online as well as in paperback--provides students with extensive skill-using activities based on the skills learned in the main text.

Integrated Korean is a project of the Korean Language Education and Research Center (KLEAR) with the support of the Korea Foundation. In addition to the five-level Integrated Korean textbooks and workbooks, volumes include Korean Composition, Korean Language in Culture and Society, Korean Reader for Chinese Characters, Readings in Modern Korean Literature, A Resource for Korean Grammar Instruction, and Selected Readings in Korean.

Audio files for this volume may be downloaded in MP3 format at https: //kleartextbook.com

About the Author

Mee-Jeong Park (Author)
Mee-Jeong Park is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Joowon Suh (Author)
Joowon Suh is senior lecturer and director of the Korean language program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.

Mary Shin Kim (Author)
Mary Shin Kim is associate professor in Korean in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Seonkyung Jeon (Author)
Seonkyung Jeon teaches at the Center for Korean Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.