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Foreign language C for Translators and Interpreters 1 (Korean)

Code: 104661
Credits: 9
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Translation and Interpreting OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Mihwa Jo Jeong
Email :
mihwa.jo@uab.cat

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

The course has no specific prerequisites.

Objectives

This course’s objective is to initiate the student into the knowledge of basic and essential aspects of phonetic, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantical and pragmatic structures of Korean language, and work the four basic communication skills necessary for effective communication. At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

  • Understand basic phonetic, morphological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic structures of Korean language.
  • Apply linguistic, cultural and thematic knowledge to understand and communicate in Korean on questions related to their specific environment.
  • Speak and write in Korean about their concrete and immediate environment.
  • Employ different strategies in order to solve communication problems about issues regarding their particular and immediate environment.
  • Build independent learning skills.

Learning outcomes

  1. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical, morphosyntactic, textual and linguistic variation related knowledge.
  2. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical and morphosyntactic basic knowledge.
  3. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge.
  4. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical, morphosyntactic and textual related knowledge.
  5. Implementing strategies in order to understand written texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to understand basic written expressions related to the immediate environment.
  6. Implementing strategies in order to understand written texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to comprehend information of short and simple written texts related to the immediate environment.
  7. Implementing strategies in order to understand written texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to comprehend written texts about general topics.
  8. Implementing strategies in order to understand written texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to comprehend verbal texts of a certain complexity about personal and general topics of well-known areas.
  9. Implementing strategies in order to understand written texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to comprehend a diverse typology of written texts about general topics of well-known areas.
  10. Implementing strategies in order to understand written texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to comprehend a diverse typology of written texts of a certain complexity about general topics from a wide variety of fields and registers.
  11. Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts of several fields: Comprehending information of short and simple written texts about subjects related to the immediate environment.
  12. Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts of several fields: Comprehending the essential information of written texts about general topics.
  13. Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts of several fields: Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts of a certain complexity about personal and general topics of well-known areas.
  14. Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts of several fields: Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of a diverse typology of written texts about general topics of well-known areas.
  15. Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of written texts of several fields: Comprehending the communicative purpose and sense of a diverse typology of written texts about general topics from a wide variety of fields and registers.
  16. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical, morphosyntactic, textual and linguistic variation related knowledge.
  17. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge.
  18. Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying graphic, lexical, morphosyntactic and textual related knowledge.
  19. Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies to use the basic graphic and lexical system in order to produce simple written expressions related to the immediate environment.
  20. Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce really short and simple written texts about topics related to the immediate environment.
  21. Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts about topics related to the immediate environment.
  22. Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts about general topics.
  23. Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of a certain complexity about personal and general topics of well-known areas.
  24. Implementing strategies in order to produce written texts of different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce a diverse typology of written texts of a certain complexity about general topics of well-known areas.
  25. Producing written texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing basic written expressions related to the immediate environment with linguistic correctness.
  26. Producing written texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing really short and simple texts about topics related to the immediate environment with linguistic correctness.
  27. Producing written texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing written texts about general topics that are appropriate to their context.
  28. Producing written texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing written texts of a certain complexity about personal and general topics from well-known areas and with specific communicative purposes, following standard modes of discourse.
  29. Producing written texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing a diverse typology of written texts about general topics of well-known areas with specific communicative purposes and following standard modes of discourse.
  30. Producing written texts from different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Producing simple academic texts, following standard models of discourse.
  31. Solving interferences between the working languages: Solving interferences from the language combination with a certain degree of control.

Contents

The course’s contents are the following:

1. Phonological and morphological contents:

  • Korean alphabet and its special features: learning basic 19 consonants and 12 vocals
  • Acquisition and mastering phonetic mechanisms.
  • Syllables combination and transcription system.
  • Word order.

2. Grammatical contents:

  • Personal and demonstrative pronouns.
  • Basic grammatical particles placing (nominal suffixes)
  • Verbs - declarative and interrogative termination
  • Negating verbs
  • Interrogative pronouns
  • Different styles of talking—colloquial style
  • Verbal tense—the past·
  • Numbers and measures
  • Use of honorific verb
  • Use of specific grammatical particles
  • verbal tense - future expressions
  • Adjectives and adverbs
  • Comparative sentences
  • Periphrastic and auxiliary verbs
  • Connectors: coordinate and subordinate conjunctions

3. Communicative and sociocultural contents:

  • Greetings
  • Talking about one’s studies
  • Who, How, When and Why questions
  • Suggesting, inviting or asking for information
  • Counting
  • Expressing completed or in progress actions
  • Expressing present or future actions
  • Expressing things we like or preferences
  • Expressing cause-consequence connections
  • Expressing different types of comparisons

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Oral and reading comprehension activities 20 0.8 2, 5
Grammar 20 0.8 2, 3, 5, 11, 19, 25
Assessment activities 10 0.4
Teaching Folder 20 0.8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
Oral and written expression activities 20 0.8 2, 19, 25
Example and Exercises 9 0.36 2, 5, 11, 19, 25
Preparation of tests 110 4.4 2, 5, 11, 19, 25

Educational activities are divided into led activities, supervised activities, independent work and assessment activities.

  • During led activities , the teacher will explain the most important contents of each unit and also will do oral and written comprehension exercises, as well as new vocabulary practice. The class will be exposed to different kinds of activities (oral and written, individual and in group).
  • Supervised activities will be focused on oral comprehension and expression activities.
  • Independent work will be writing and vocabulary practice, and solving and self-evaluation exercise.
  • Assessment activity will be divided into diferent tests and teaching folder.
Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Oral production test 10% 2 0.08 2, 11, 12, 13, 31
Assessment of Grammatical Knowledge and Ability 25% 4 0.16 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18
Teaching Folder 25% 3 0.12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
Assessment of Lexical Knowledge 25% 4 0.16 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 15, 17, 24
Writing Assessment 15% 3 0.12 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 20, 25, 26, 31

Continuous assessment

Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing various tasks and tests. These activities are detailed in the table at the end of this section of the Study Guide.

Review

When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.

Missed/failed assessment activities

Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5.

The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for. In case of retaking, maximum grade will be 5 (Pass).

Classification as \"not assessable\"

In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as \"not assessable\" on their transcript.

Misconduct in assessment activities

Any irregularity committed during an assessment (academic fraud, plagiarism, or misuse of AI, unless expressly authorized in the course syllabus) that could lead to a significant change in the grade will result in a grade of 0 for that assessment. If multiple irregularities occur during assessments for the same course, the final grade for that course will be 0. Furthermore, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any individual who commits any of these irregularities.

Single assessment

The final grade for the subject will be calculated according to the following percentages:

  • Grammatical knowledge 25%
  • Vocabulary skills evaluation 25%
  • Evaluation of writing and speaking exercises 25%
  • Teaching folder 25%

Grade revision and resit procedures for the subject are the same as those for continual assessment. See the section above in this study guide.

In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not permitted at any stage of the assessment activities. Any work that includes AI-generated content will be considered a breach of academic integrity and will be graded a 0, regardless of any disciplinary proceedings that may be initiated.


Bibliography

1. Reference textbook

The textbook that will be usually employed in class is the following:

This book can be bought in the website of the bookstore specialized in Korean: http://www.aprendecoreanohoy.com

(https://www.aprendecoreanohoy.com/es/libros-de-texto/1028-yonsei-academic-korean-beginning-1-vocabulary-grammar-9788968501555.html )

2. Reference books

  • Bae, Ju-che, (2003), La pronunciación del coreano (Hangukôei balem), Samgyung, Seoul, Korea (disponible en la Biblioteca d’Humanitats).
  • The National institute of the Korean language (2005), Korean Grammar for Foreigners 1, Communication Books, Seoul, Korea. (disponible en la Biblioteca d’Humanitats).
  • VV.AA. (2000), Aprender el coreano en español (Spain ôro beunen hangukô), Munyerim, Seoul, Korea (disponible en la Biblioteca d’Humanitats).
  • Yeon, Jaehoon. & Lucien Brown (2011), Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar, Routledge, London.

3. Dictionaries

- The National Institute of Korean Language’s dictionary:

Diccionario Didáctico Coreano-Español del Instituto Nacional de la Lengua Coreana: https://krdict.korean.go.kr/spa

- Korean-Chinese-Japanese-English dictionary: https://dict.naver.com/

Software

For this level, it is not needed.

Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE