Korean is the seventh most commonly spoken language in the United
States, and Korean heritage students―those with some proficiency in or a
cultural connection to the language through family or community―make up
a substantial portion of Korean learners 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
learners as well as the increasing number of students from diverse
backgrounds who are interested in pursuing intensive learning to build
on their prior experience with Korean.
Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 and 2 directly address the linguistic
needs and abilities of heritage and accelerated 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
multilevel communicative classroom activities and reading materials with
standards-based exercises and projects that not only focus on 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.
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,
vol-umes include Korean Composition, Korean Language in Culture and
Soci-ety, Korean Reader for Chinese Characters, Readings in Modern
Korean Lit-erature, A Resource for Korean Grammar Instruction, and
Selected Read-ings in Korean.
Audio files for Accelerated Korean may be downloaded in MP3 format at
https: //kleartextbook.com.
