The Institute for Korean Studies presents:
"Service-Learning in Korean: Community-Engaged Teaching and Research"
Sung-Ock Sohn
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract: This presentation discusses the implementation and effects of community service-learning (SL) in the pedagogical context of Korean as a Second/Foreign Language (KSL) at higher institutions in N. America. Specifically, I address the following two questions. 1) How does service-learning help students in Korean classes make connections between their knowledge acquired from class setting and their use of the language in authentic setting? 2) In what ways does service-learning enhance Korean language learners’ socio-cultural awareness and foster their cultural identity? Community-engaged research/teaching encompasses collaborative research or creative work with community partners that addresses social inequalities or public issues. We are particularly interested in seeing applications for community-engaged work in the Los Angeles area, though proposals for work anywhere in the US or globally will be given full consideration. Over the past two decades, an increasing number of higher institutes in North America has incorporated service-learning into academic contexts in a wide range of disciplines, such as intercultural communication, societal inequities, civic engagement in international and domestic contexts, etc. Download the PDF flyer here.
Sung-Ock SOHN (Professor, dept of Asian languages and cultures, UCLA). The ALC department at UCLA offers a wide range of courses in the languages, literatures, religions, and cultural heritage of East Asian (China, Japan, Korea and South and South-east Asia). I am currently serving as the coordinator of the Korean language program at UCLA. My main research area involves Interactional/discourse linguistics, language change and grammaticalization, heritage language acquisition and service learning. The ALC department offers majors in Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures BA as well as MA in Asian Language and linguistics. The major combines the basic courses of the general linguistics program with that of East Asian languages and cultures.
