The Korean Case for Youth Language Learning

Introduction: Generation Z and Korean language learning.

Part 1. Policies, curricula, and assessment

1. Learning Korean in high school: The Year 11 and 12 Korean language syllabi in Victoria and Western Australia.

2. Flourishing but with challenges: Korean language education for young Vietnamese learners.

3. Teaching Korean in Japanese High Schools: Structure, materials and assessments.

4. Korean language at the secondary level in Taiwan: Learners, policies, and resources.

Part 2. Teaching methods and learning practices

5. The impact of the Korean Wave on Korean language studies in Israel.

6. Transcending educational boundaries: The impact of eTandem virtual exchange among generation Z learners of Korean.

7. From the classroom to variety shows, films, and web-novels: Korean language learning in Kenya.

8. Korean Wave and informal language learning: Learners' perspectives in online spaces.

9. Korean language learning beyond the classroom in young Korean Australians.

Part 3. Learners' individual differences

10. Young learner perspectives on semi-formal, extracurricular Korean language learning in the UK.

11. Transitioning from high school: Chinese students' triggers to major in Korean Language and Literature at university.

12. Korean language learning among Turkish students: Young learners' perspectives, motivation and vision.

13. Enjoyment in learning Korean as a foreign language: Learner subjectivity in Thailand.