Korean as a Heritage Language in the U.S. University Classroom
As one of the less-commonly-taught foreign languages in U.S. universities, Korean-language classes are often taken by students of Korean descent. Many Korean Americans with long-term exposure to the target language in a combination of naturalistic and instructional settings have developed profic...
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| description | As one of the less-commonly-taught foreign languages in U.S.
universities, Korean-language classes are often taken by students
of Korean descent. Many Korean Americans with long-term exposure
to the target language in a combination of naturalistic and
instructional settings have developed proficiency in their heritage
language through parental and community support, such as Saturday
schools (Lee, 2002). However, upon closer examination,
the bilingualism that many Korean-American learners achieve is
unbalanced. These heritage learners often lack grammatical accuracy
and precision despite high fluency, as the moniker "kitchen
Korean" implies. As a way to facilitate the accuracy aspect of the
heritage learners' language, this article suggests the benefits of
corrective feedback, explicit and implicit, in the forms of metalinguistic
comments, provision of an alternative correct form
contingent on the learner's ill-formed utterance, and partial or
full repetitions or reformulations of the learner's output when
interacting with them in the classroom and beyond. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-efeb76bb955440cc94f60fa314272e032022-12-22T01:03:53ZengNational Council of Less Commonly Taught LanguagesJournal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages1930-90312010-01-018141167Korean as a Heritage Language in the U.S. University ClassroomHyun-Sook Kang0Illinois State UniversityAs one of the less-commonly-taught foreign languages in U.S. universities, Korean-language classes are often taken by students of Korean descent. Many Korean Americans with long-term exposure to the target language in a combination of naturalistic and instructional settings have developed proficiency in their heritage language through parental and community support, such as Saturday schools (Lee, 2002). However, upon closer examination, the bilingualism that many Korean-American learners achieve is unbalanced. These heritage learners often lack grammatical accuracy and precision despite high fluency, as the moniker "kitchen Korean" implies. As a way to facilitate the accuracy aspect of the heritage learners' language, this article suggests the benefits of corrective feedback, explicit and implicit, in the forms of metalinguistic comments, provision of an alternative correct form contingent on the learner's ill-formed utterance, and partial or full repetitions or reformulations of the learner's output when interacting with them in the classroom and beyond.http://www.ncolctl.org/files/Korean-as-Heritage-Language.pdfheritage language learnerscorrective feedbacklearning Korean as a less-commonly-taught foreign language in the U.S. |
| spellingShingle | Hyun-Sook Kang Korean as a Heritage Language in the U.S. University Classroom Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages heritage language learners corrective feedback learning Korean as a less-commonly-taught foreign language in the U.S. |
| title | Korean as a Heritage Language in the U.S. University Classroom |
| title_full | Korean as a Heritage Language in the U.S. University Classroom |
| title_fullStr | Korean as a Heritage Language in the U.S. University Classroom |
| title_full_unstemmed | Korean as a Heritage Language in the U.S. University Classroom |
| title_short | Korean as a Heritage Language in the U.S. University Classroom |
| title_sort | korean as a heritage language in the u s university classroom |
| topic | heritage language learners corrective feedback learning Korean as a less-commonly-taught foreign language in the U.S. |
| url | http://www.ncolctl.org/files/Korean-as-Heritage-Language.pdf |
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