The Korean Case for Youth Language Learning

Nicola Fraschini, Jieun Kiaer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040451694
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The Korean Case for Youth Language Learning is a collection of chapters which address the complexities at the intersection of Korean language learning, the global popularity of Korean culture, and Generation Z learners' characteristics.

The chapters included in this volume portray learning contexts spread across five continents and adopt a wide array of research methodologies, including but not limited to thematic analysis, discourse analysis, and Q methodology, to touch on important topics such as policy and curricular constraints, pedagogical approaches, and Generation Z language learners' identity, motivation, and emotions. This volume serves as a springboard for further policy-focused, pedagogical, and empirical investigations into what the local setting, in terms of socio-cultural environment and educational infrastructure, brings into young learners' experience of learning the Korean language.

This book is a valuable guide for global teachers of Korean who seek to understand learners' behaviour and preferences in the K-wave era, as well as policymakers within language learning education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• AI Declaration
• Introduction: Generation Z and Korean language learning
• PART I Policies, curricula, and assessment
• PART II Teaching methods and learning practices
• PART III Learners’ individual differences
• Index