Korean Conversations and Debating

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Is social media a waste of time Is love with an artificial intelligence being possible Gather your opinions and get ready to DEBATE IN KOREAN!

Korean Conversations and Debating offers intermediate and advanced level students the tools they need to bring their conversation skills to the next level. Written by three professors and instructors of Korean Language for their own classrooms, it has been designed for both self-study as well as classroom use. Featuring a collection of thought-provoking reading passages about controversial and topical subjects, including artificial intelligence, virtual currency, and declining birthrate, along with guided lessons, vocabulary lists and exercises both written and verbal, this book helps students develop in the following ways:

• Develop advanced reading skills with interesting reading passages on controversial topics
• Expand their vocabulary for speaking in Korean about a variety of subjects
• Consolidate their use of correct grammar and more natural-sounding sentences
• Develop the ability to express opinions in both written and spoken Korean
• Use the art of persuasion and sophisticated verbal and written strategies of Korea

Read and debate about current controversial topics! Including:

• Is virtual currency the future of the economy
• Can anyone be successful no matter what social status they are born with
• Should pop stars and idols be exempt from military service
• Are print books better than e-books
• Is a low birth rate detrimental or beneficial to society

The topics and reading passages increase in difficulty the book progresses from the lower-intermediate level to a more advanced level by the end. Free online audio recordings are available for all the Korean passages, along with a comprehensive Korean-English glossary.

Author Bio

Eunjin Gye is currently an adjunct lecturer of Korean in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. She has taught all levels of Korean at various Korean institutes and universities in the United States as well as within the Korean government. Her research interests include second language acquisition, psycholinguistic and pedagogy.

Juno Baik is Assistant Professor of Korean at Brigham Young University. He received a Ph.D. in Korean Linguistics and Pedagogy from Kyung Hee University, Korea. He has trained teachers of Korean as a second language and taught at universities, government institutions, and multinational corporations in Korea and the US since 2008. His interests are in second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics, focusing on how cognitive factors affect language acquisition. He is a co-author of Tuttle's Learning Korean along with Julie Damron.

Julie Damron is Associate Professor of Korean and linguistics at Brigham Young University. She received her PhD from Purdue university in linguistics and second language teaching. She currently heads the Korean Section at BYU and teaches Korean language courses, linguistics and research design. Julie has created online classes that serve more than 1,000 high school and college students around the world. She is the author of Tuttle's highly successful Korean Stories For Language Learners, and a co-author of Learning Korean along with Juno Baik.