VCE Korean First Language study guide
VCE Korean First Language · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
VCE Korean First Language is a Victorian Certificate of Education study administered by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). The current study design carries an accreditation period from 2022, and the published study design document was updated in August 2021. The study design sets out areas of study, outcomes and assessment for Units 1 to 4 from 2022, and the VCAA page describes it as covering Korean First Language Units 1-4 from that year. It is designed for students who already have substantial background in Korean and who are working at a first-language level, rather than for beginners learning the language from scratch. Topics on this exam: Prescribed themes and topics (Units 1-4 areas of study) and Text types and writing in Korean. The VCE Korean First Language study guide has 2 sections and about 808 words.
01Prescribed Themes and Topics: Units 1–4 Areas of Study
The four units move from personal worlds to public ones. Expect themes such as personal identity and family, school and community life, relationships and youth culture, and then societal issues - technology and media, environment, migration and multiculturalism, work and leisure, and Korean identity in a global context. You are not tested on facts about Korea; you are tested on your ability to argue about these themes in Korean, using accurate register and evidence. First, topic-specific vocabulary fields : for each theme, build a bank of nouns, verbs and collocations (e.g.
413 words, about 2 min02Text Types and Writing in Korean
You must produce several written text types accurately and appropriately: 논설문/주장하는 글 (argumentative essay), 설명문 (expository), 보고서 (report), 편지/이메일 (personal and formal correspondence), 기사문 (news article), 광고/홍보문 (advertisement), 연설문 (speech), 일기 , 이야기/수필 , and 대화/인터뷰 . Each has a fixed skeleton, and examiners award marks for that skeleton before they judge your ideas. Structural conventions : 논설문 needs 서론(문제 제기)–본론(근거)–결론(주장 재확인); 기사문 needs a headline plus a lead answering 누가, 언제, 어디서, 무엇을, 왜, 어떻게, with inverted-pyramid ordering; 편지 needs 호칭, 안부, 용건, 맺음말, 서명; 연설문 needs 청중 호명 (여러분,), rhetorical questions and a call to action. Language markers : 문어체 vs 구어체, objective reporting (∼로 밝혀졌다, ∼라고 전했다) versus personal stance (∼라고 생각한다), and hedging in reports.
395 words, about 2 min