Hangul-ro Boja! Authentic Korean reading

Abstract

Fifteen reading lessons from a variety of sources, including: *notes found on the family refrigerator *traditional folk tales, modern poetry *Web journal articles about politics, technology, and popular culture

KÀN NA! and HANGUL-RO BOJA! are multimedia lessons that guide the user step by step through a five-stage series of activities designed to approximate the strategies used by native speakers to comprehend text and video. The stages are: *pre- activities: The user is invited to predict and make guesses about the material and to activate background knowledge, *global activities: The user identifies sections of the material and the topics that belong to them, *specific information activities: The user gets detailed information about individual topics, *linguistic activities: The user works with vocabulary and linguistic structures that have enabled comprehension, and *post- activities: the user integrates new language into a productive activity.