Korean Language A: Literature (HL/SL)

Entry Guidance

Korean Language A: Literature is recommended for the first language student or for those students who have a high level of fluency in Korean. Any student interested in selecting Korean Language A: Literature at HL or SL must have had previous formal literary experience and training and be confident and capable of writing critical essays about texts.

Completion of Korean Language A: Literature (HL/SL) as a Group 2 course - Students will be awarded a bilingual IB Diploma if they achieve level 3 or higher for this course and their Group 1 course.

Course Aims

The aims of all subjects in studies in language and literature are to enable students to:

• Engage with a range of texts, in a variety of media and forms, from different periods, styles, and cultures.

• Develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, presenting and performing.

• Develop skills in interpretation, analysis and evaluation.

• Develop sensitivity to the formal and aesthetic qualities of texts and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings.

• Develop an understanding of relationships between texts and a variety of perspectives, cultural contexts, and local and global issues, and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings.

• Develop an understanding of the relationships between studies in language and literature and other disciplines.

• Communicate and collaborate in a confident and creative way.

• Foster a lifelong interest in and enjoyment of language and literature.

Course Content

The focus of the course is to explore the role of context in the construction of meaning of a text.

1. Readers, writers and texts 2. Time and space 3. Intertextuality: connecting texts

Assessment Outline

HL Assessment Component Weighting

External Assessment (4 hours) 80%

• Paper 1: Guided literary analysis (2 hours 15 minutes)

• Paper 2: Comparative essay (1 hour 45 minutes)

• HL essay: Students submit an essay between 1,200 and 1,500 words

Internal Assessment 20%

• Individual oral

SL Assessment Component Weighting

External Assessment (3 hours) 70%

• Paper 1: Guided literary analysis (1 hour 15 minutes)

• Paper 2: Comparative essay (1 hour 45 minutes)

Internal Assessment 30%

• Individual oral

For Further Advice

Contact Mikyung Cho, Teacher of Korean: Mikyung.Cho@dulwich-seoul.kr