HSC Korean in Context (NSW) case studies
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HSC Korean in Context is a New South Wales senior secondary course and examination for students who already bring substantial Korean to the classroom - typically heritage speakers, students with schooling in Korea, or those raised in Korean-speaking homes. Rather than teaching the language from scratch, it develops advanced literacy and analytical control: interpreting texts and audio drawn from contemporary Korean life, and producing extended Korean writing in different registers and text types. The HSC Korean in Context (NSW) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,618 words.
1The Two-Week Deadline and the Honorific Trap
You are a second-generation student preparing a 400-character Korean email to your grandmother's cousin (외할머니의 사촌), whom you have met twice. You must announce your acceptance into a Sydney university's Korean studies program and ask whether she can host you for two weeks in Seoul in January.
531 words, about 3 min2Reading a Community Notice: Two Events, One Saturday
A Korean community centre in Sydney posts a notice you must respond to by Friday. It contains two listings.
535 words, about 3 min3The Interview Answer That Sounds Like a Textbook
You are in a mock interview for a Korean company's Sydney office internship. The interviewer asks: '본인의 강점과 약점을 말씀해 주세요.' You have prepared an answer in polished Korean, but your teacher flags three problems: it uses '저는 완벽주의자입니다' as the weakness, it runs 4 minutes, and it never mentions the role.
486 words, about 2 min4The Family Survey: Whose Heritage Counts?
For a Korean class project you must interview a family member about migration and identity. Your father emigrated in 1997 and speaks Korean at home; your mother was born in Sydney to Korean parents and speaks English at work, Korean with her mother.
532 words, about 3 min5Listening to a Debate on Multicultural Policy
You listen once to a 3-minute Korean radio segment. Two speakers discuss whether Korean language classes for marriage migrants should be mandatory.
534 words, about 3 min