Beginning and Continuing Korean

Beginning and Continuing Korean

It is good to see this kind of multimedia-assisted self-instructed program being developed for the learning of Korean. There is no doubt that the program would be useful for learners of Korean in some way. The reviewer, however, feels that more careful attention should have been paid to the pedagogical aspects of the program and the multimedia functions could have been more fully exploited. It is unfortunate that the program tends to limit learners to using the language on the screen with the main focus on presenting language rather than on allowing the learners to use it and engage in more creative language use. There is a further need to consider how the important communicative elements of language learning can be taken into account more effectively in the program. The reviewer wishes to see much more encouragement to the learners to use the language meaningfully and purposefully in various ways.