BC UBC : Ross King, Professor of Korean, Department of Asian Studies, UBC

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BC?? UBC? ??? ?? ??? ???? ???Ross King,
Professor of Korean, Department of Asian Studies,
UBC

• Introduction
• UBC
• ??? ?? (1) ???????? ?????
• ??? ?? (2) ?????? ??? ???????
• ??? ?? (3) ?? ???? ?????? ?? ?
• ??? ?? (1) UBC ??? ????
• Summary
• How Much Does it Cost?
• Korean Language in BC Schools
• Problems
• Recommendations
• Closing Remarks

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??? ?? (1) ???????? ?????

• 140 North American universities teach Korean
  language
• -how many have 4 years of instruction?
• -how many have tenure-track professors?
• -how many offer MA PhD in Korean?
• The Good News

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??? ?? (2) ?????? ??? ???????

• Non-heritage, Heritage and Native Speaker
• ???? ???
• 0 5
• Non-heritage Heritage Native Speaker
• 2nd-gen. 1.5-gen.
• Korn 102-200-300 2 12?/6??
• (375 hrs.)
  (2200 hrs.) Korn 410/301

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Inter-agency Language Roundtable Proficiency Scale

• Defense Language Institute
• 1 Elementary
• 2 Limited Working Proficiency
• 3 General Professional Proficiency
• 4 Advanced Professional Proficiency
• 5 Functionally Native Proficiency

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• -?????? ??? vs. ?????? ???
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• -language as a hyper-collective good
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??? ?? (1) UBC ??? ????

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• Ross King (Professor) 3-2
• Insun Lee (Instructor) 3-3

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??? ???? ??

• Japanese
• -1 Instructor
• -12 Lecturers
• Chinese
• -1 Professor
• -1 Instructor
• -14 Lecturers

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??? ?? (1) UBC ??? ????
???? Non-heritage Heritage Korean
102 Korean 104 Korean 200 Korean 300
(Intermediate Readings) Korean 301 (Introduction
to ??) Korean 410 (Modern Short Fiction) Korean
415 (??? ??) ??? (Ross King)
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??? ?? (1) UBC ??? ????

• Enrollments
• Course Enrollment Course Enrollment
• Korn 102 2530 Korn 104 510
• Korn 200 1522
• Korn 300 1218 Korn 301 1220
• Korn 410 515
• Korn 415 510
• Summer (Korn 102) 2530
• TOTAL 100125 per year

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??? ???? ??

• Japanese
• -26 different courses
• -1500 students
• -300 waitlist
• Chinese
• -52 different courses
• -1500 students
• -300 waitlist

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??? ?? (1) UBC ??? ????

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• Mid-1990s 90 heritage learners
• Korn 102 25 2? 34 ????
• Now 55 heritage
• 2006 30 turned away from Korean 102
• 2007 80 turned away from Korean 102 and 200
• Summer courses are now filling up, too
• Demand from 2? and 1.5??

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Unmet Demand

• Korean 102 (Beginning Non-heritage)
• Upper-level Korean (esp. for Heritage)
• Content Courses about Korean

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• Language Courses
• Korean 102 (2nd section)
• Korean 301 (??) on a regular basis
• Media Korean
• Newspaper Korean
• Business Korean
• Advanced Sino-Korean (??)

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• Lecture Courses
• Topics in Korean Language Education
• Korean Pedagogical Grammar
• Language in Korean Culture and Society
• Kyopo Korean Language and/in the Korean
  Diaspora
• (graduate program, too)

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??? ?? (1) UBC ??? ????

• ?? Korn 102 Korn 200

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??? ?? (1) UBC ??? ????

• ?? Korn 300 Korn 301
• Kim, King Yeon
• Intermediate Korean (??)
• (? ???????? ??? 3)
• Kim, King Baker
• Intermediate Korean Sino-Korean Companion (??)

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??? ?? (1) UBC ??? ????

• ?? Korn 410 Korn 415
• UBC Korean Language Program Website
• http//www.korean.arts.ubc.ca

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Our Vision
Teaching Korean as a World Language At a
World-class Level To All Comers at all
Levels (Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners Alike)
On the Basis of a Robust Partnership
between UBC The ROK Government The BC Korean
Community
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Summary so Far

• We have reached our limit!
• UBC Asian Studies needs at least one more
  full-time Korean language teacher. The options
• -part-time sessional lecturer
• -full-time sessional lecturer (8??)
• -full-time sessional lecturer (12??)
• -Instructor (tenure-track)
• -Professor (tenure-track)

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How Much Does it Cost?

• Teaching Position-type Endowment Needed
• Sessional Lecturer (8??) 750,000 _at_ 5
• ? 37,500/year
• Sessional Lecturer (12??) 1.3 million _at_ 5
• ? 65,000/year
• Instructor 1.7 million _at_ 5
• ? 85,000/year
• Professor of Korean Applied 2.5 million _at_ 5
• Linguistics ? 125,000/year

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BC ??????? ?????

• BCSAKS (BC??? ?? ???)
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• ???? ?????? ??? vs. ?????? ???
• Focus ???, ???? New immigrants and their
  children
• Enrollments
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• Cant UBC and BCSAKS Cooperate?
• UBC ????? ???? community enthusiasts ?? ????
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Suggestions Recommendations

• UBC ??? ????? ? ??
• Community support ???
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• Focus? 2?? ???? ???? ???
• Scholarships and prizes for BOTH heritage AND
  non-heritage learners (summer programs in Korea)
• Advertise and market Korean language courses (and
  scholarships/prizes) in English and Chinese, too!
• TAships at UBC Asian Studies for Korean language
  education
• BC Korean community and esp. UBC KISS needs to be
  more assertive politically (Berkeley)

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If the BC ?? Community is Really Serious

• Help Raise Money for Cost
• -One new endowed Professorship in
• Korean Applied Linguistics (joint appt. 2.5 M
• with Language Education Asian Studies)
• -One new endowed Instructorship in Korean 1.7 M
• Language (Asian Studies)
• -One new endowment for TAships (UBC) and 0.8
  M
• prizes/bursaries (BC schools)
• TOTAL 5.0 M

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Closing Remarks

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• BCs ???? is special

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ANY

• QUESTIONS?

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UBC Dept. of Asian Studies

• Major in Asian Languages and Cultures
• Major in Asian Studies
• History (premodern), ReligionThought
• Philosophy, Literature, Film/Popular Culture
• Languages Chinese, Japanese, Korean
• Sanskrit, Punjabi,
  Hindi-Urdu
• Indonesian
• (Tibetan)

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UBC Dept. of Asian Studies

• Teaching Faculty
• -25 Professors
• -2 Instructors
• -27 Sessional Lecturers
• Enrollments
• -Chinese 1500 students/year
• -Japanese 1500 students/year
• -Korean 100 students/year
• -Punjabi 100 students/year

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UBC Dept. of Asian Studies

• Graduate Program
• MA 25 students
• PhD 26 students
• From China, Japan, Korea, USA, Canada, Bulgaria,
  Russia, France, Vietnam, Israel