— Overview
This page follows a plan, not a finished study. The intended learners are migrant workers living in Seoul who have been in Korea for about a year. Because of that stay, the program is aimed less at the most basic communication and more at general education, self-development, and adapting to Korean society. The workers have jobs, so weekday study is treated as impossible, and classes are considered for the two weekend days.
Activities are to be built around practical use at work and in daily life. The syllabus type is a situational syllabus. The course is planned for eight weeks, twice a week, two hours at a time, 48 hours in all. The research steps, as written, are still to come: a review of earlier studies, government surveys, and statistics; unstructured interviews with three migrant workers and visits to institutions that already teach them Korean, to see demand and actual conditions; draft questionnaires and interview questions reviewed by three Korean-education experts; snowball sampling through those three interviewees — with a noted risk of concentrating in one occupation, accepted because workers often apply with colleagues; a survey of fifty migrant workers, and further interviews with five of them; then quantitative analysis in SPSS and qualitative analysis of interview transcripts. Closed and open questions are both planned. No survey results are given in the text, and none are invented.
— Contents and key concepts
Workers in Seoul, and a weekend timetable
The plan names its learners with care. They are migrant workers living in Seoul, who have been in Korea for about a year. Because of that stay, the program is aimed less at the most basic communication and more at general education, self-development, and adapting to Korean society. They have jobs, so weekday study is treated as impossible. Classes are considered for the two weekend days. Activities are to be built around practical use, at work and in daily life. The syllabus type is a situational syllabus.
The hours are stated. The course is planned for eight weeks, twice a week, two hours at a time — 48 hours in all. Those figures belong to the plan as written. They are not turned into a later official count of classes actually held.
A study still ahead, not a set of results
The research is written in the future tense. First comes a review of earlier studies, government surveys, and statistics on a Korean curriculum for migrant workers. Next, unstructured interviews with three migrant workers, and visits to institutions that already teach them Korean, to see demand and actual conditions, and to decide the range of a main survey. Draft questionnaires and interview questions are then to be reviewed by three Korean-education experts. Sampling is to be a snowball through those three interviewees. The plan notes a risk of concentrating in one occupation, and still judges snowball sampling suitable, because workers often apply with colleagues rather than alone.
A survey of fifty migrant workers is planned, with further interviews with five people chosen from that survey. Questionnaires are to mix closed and open questions. Analysis is to be quantitative, in SPSS, and qualitative, from transcripts of the interviews. Those steps are left as a plan. No findings from the fifty or the five are given in the text, and none are invented.
Sources
- a plan for a weekend Korean program for migrant workers living in Seoul, after about a year in the country, with an eight-week situational syllabus of 48 hours and a research design of interviews and a survey of fifty, without survey results.
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