Research Document - All of my findings and relevant

information for my project

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OPVL Examples

Source Type: Website

Origin This source comes from the ‘90daykorean.com’ website. This source was published on October 14,
2020. This source is a primary source because the information is created by 90daykorean organization
and not referred to other websites or sources. This source is reliable because it’s a trustworthy
organization and lots of people are using this website to learn Korean. This source allows everybody
to learn a new language and access a lot of free resources.

Purpose The purpose of this website is to teach foreigners who wish to speak or learn Korean. The source
guides the audience in a step-by-step method throughout well-organized content. The purpose of the
source is clearly stated on the website. The publisher began her/his article by explaining how to
pronounce Korean words’ and finished his/her article by explaining common mistakes with Korean
pronunciation. Most of the information on the site consists of facts but some might be different from
person-to-person because romanization used for pronunciation can differ from a person. The point of
view appears impartial as not being biased and as unprejudiced.

Value The source is useful to foreigners or who didn’t know how to speak Korean because it tells the
audience about how to pronounce Korean words, letters, and alphabets and also the basic Korean
pronunciation rules. The table of contents is very neat and well arranged, so even foreigners who have
never used Korean will be able to speak Korean easily if they follow the table of contents step by step.
Also, it is a good and reliable source to make it easier for foreigners to speak by listening to the
sounds when they are having a hard time learning the language because they don’t know how to
pronounce the words only by Romanized letters. By adding the pronunciation sounds of native
Koreans, it will be beneficial to foreigners. I can verify the information in other sources because there
are lots of websites that explain how to speak Korean. This can be applied to my project because, in
the book that I will create, I will also explain how to speak Korean. Hence, I can refer to this website
when I create my project.

Limitation This source is reliable because it is created by the 90daykorean website which lots of people use to
learn Korean. However, this source is limited because it tells us about how to pronounce
letters/alphabets and words but not long and full sentences. It only represents how to pronounce the
words in general. It doesn’t provide us with information about accents when pronouncing words.
Besides, this source isn’t subjective. It is not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in
representing facts. However, the source might have been better if they added the photo of the mouth
when they pronounce each letter. For example, the shape of the mouth will differ when the person
speaks ㅍ, and when the person speaks ㅎ. Finally, the source doesn’t tell where it got its information
from which limits credible some of its information.
 Source Type: Scholarly National Website

Origin This source is from the ‘Sejonghakdang.org’ website. The sources that are published in the link are
published by King Sejong Institute Foundation and not referred to other websites or sources. The
published date is not revealed. This source is reliable because it’s a trustworthy organization and lots
of people are using this website to learn Korean.

Purpose This website is created to teach both Koreans and foreigners to learn how to pronounce Korean. We
can know this by there are language options on the left side of the website. Hence, this website is
useful and reliable for both Koreans and foreigners and not limited to only one nationality.

Value This source is highly valuable because this website provides the audio file also. By listening to the
audio guide from the scholarly national website, It gave me an idea of how I am going to record my
voice for my final product.

Limitation The publisher of this source constructed the website with a series of chapters, starting from the
pronunciation of basic vowels and ending by the final test. However, I have only used the first 3
sources because the rest of them are not part of the contents that I wanted to deliver and not
appropriate for my target audience.

These OPVLs show critical analysis of the sources that I referred to while creating my final product. I have analyzed two different types of
sources using the OPVL method to justify and evaluate the sources. While critically analyzing and evaluating the sources, I was able to
develop my research skill and choose reliable sources that I would like to apply to my product.

Presentation of Research

Source Type: Survey

What is the most difficult part of learning a new language for children?

The majority of the students from my targeted age group had

responded that they are facing difficulties in speaking the alphabet
(pronunciation) while learning a new language, which means that
I need to focus more on pronunciation/speaking of hangul rather
than the writing part.

Source Type: Website

How do we create words/phrases by consonants and vowels?

Vowels ➢ There are 10 basic vowels in Korean

○ ㅏ, ㅑ, ㅓ, ㅕ, ㅗ, ㅛ, ㅜ, ㅠ, ㅡ ㅣ
➢ There are 11 double vowels in Korean
○ ㅐ,ㅒ,ㅔ,ㅖ,ㅘ,ㅙ,ㅚ,ㅝ,ㅞ,ㅟ, and
ㅢ.
○ Several basic vowels are combined
to form double vowels. They can be
combined in a number of different
ways, but only two vowels to a
combination
 Consonants ➢ There are 14 basic consonants in Korean
○ ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ,ㅅ,ㅇ,ㅈ,ㅊ,ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅍ, and
ㅎ
➢ There are 5 double consonants in Korean
○ ㄲ,ㅃ,ㅉ,ㄸ, and ㅆ.
○ Just like double vowels were formed by
combining several basic vowels, double
consonants are created by 2 consonants

Once the reader understood the concepts of both vowels and consonants, they must be ready to know how to create words or phrases
using consonants and vowels. To create Korean words and phrases, we need to combine vowels and consonants together. For example, if
we combine consonant “ㄱ" and vowel “ㅏ", it’s going to look like ‘가' this and it has the meaning of ‘go’ in Korean. However, if only
two vowels or consonants are used together and not creating any combination such as ㄱㄴ or ㅏㅖ, it doesn’t make sense. Hence, we
can create words or phrases by combining any vowel with any consonant.

Source Type: Online Video

How to Write Korean Alphabet (Stroke Order) for Beginner

➢ In writing Hangul, following the stroke order is one of

the most important things
➢ Each vowel and consonant has different stroke order
➢ The number of strokes varies from vowel to vowel and
consonant to consonant
➢ Maximum of 8 strokes and minimum of 1 stroke

Uses of Variety of Media

Using the https://app.qr-code-generator.com/ website, I have created

QR codes for pronunciation for each vowel and consonant. Learning a
new language is burdensome and difficult for everyone. So, if the
reader feels difficulty with the basics, people may easily give up
learning a language when they meet a more difficult topic later. I
sincerely support my readers learning a new language, so I hope they
don't have any difficulty and pressure in learning a new language. The
results showed that they are struggling most with pronunciation. Hence,
I decided to record the pronunciation of each vowel and consonant that
they found most difficult in learning a new language. I recorded my
voice and converted it to easy-to-access QR codes and distributed the
audio files to them. I thought that if they study while listening to
accurate pronunciation, they could feel less pressure and easier to
speak.

Firstly, I have recorded my voice pronouncing each vowel and consonant using a voice memo and then I have airdropped it to my laptop. Then
since the voice memo files were in the format of m4a, I had to convert them into mp3 using the website https://online-audio-converter.com/
Next, I have visited the QR code generator website to generate QR codes for each audio files and finally downloaded the QR codes images to
upload to my final product.

Changes to Goal and Specification

There were some changes that I made to the goal during the process. Firstly, the targeted readers have changed from grades seven to nine to
grade four to seven because the level of content that I wanted to deliver wasn’t suitable for seventh and ninth-grade students, so I lowered the
targeted readers’ age group. My interest was to teach the readers about the consonants, vowels, and the basics of Korean. After I had a meeting
with my supervisor, she gave me advice to actually think about whether the content that I want to deliver was actually suitable for my initial
audience. After spending some time, I have decided to change my target audience by reflecting on my supervisor’s feedback and was able to
create suitable and appropriate content for my target audience.

The second change is the change in the order of contents. Originally, I was going to write about consonants first and move on to vowels but it
has changed. The reason is that during the meeting with my supervisor, my supervisor said that learning vowels first and then moving on to the
consonants would be easier to deliver to the younger readers. As such, there were changes that I had not thought of before starting working on
the project, but I didn’t panic and actively reflected on feedback to make a better product through meetings and feedback.

There were changes in the success criteria that I created. Referring to the quality part, initially, I was going to contain some interesting facts
about Korean to keep readers interested in the topic and concept of learning a new language. However, I have changed that part into adding QR
codes by using a variety of media. I thought that delivering interesting facts is quite out of topic for this project. Therefore, I have effectively
used QR codes to maximize the reader’s understanding of the language and use a variety of media which is one of the ATL skills. Next, I have
changed the minimum number of chapters of the ebook. Originally, I believed that the more chapters, the better the structure of the book.
However, given that my target readers are young, I thought that too many chapters could make them feel uncomfortable learning a new
language. Hence, I changed the minimum number of chapters from five to three and I was able to meet this goal. Lastly, rather than creating a
vocabulary page at the end of the book for the structure aspect, I have changed my success criteria to make the difficulty of the book vary by
each chapter. The reason why I changed this criterion is because since there were changes in goal and my target audience, learning vocabulary
is too hard for them yet. If I were following the original goal and my target audience was from grade seven to nine Korean B students, I would
have created the portable vocabulary book but since the age group of my target audience had decreased, I think vocabulary book was the
inappropriate choice for them.

Self-Management and Planning

 Date Things that I need to complete (Short term and long term goals) Deadline

October 18th, 2020 ● Evaluate 1 reliable source by completing 1 OPVL Added: October 18th, 2020

● Identify at least 3 research (ATL) skills Completed: October 18th, 2020

● Find the connection between the goal of my project and the

global context and explain how it is connected

October 19th, 2020 Research on grammar No longer relevant due to change in

Sentence structure goal

See ​REFLECTIONS

October 20th, 2020 ● Table of Contents Prototype Added: October 20th, 2020
● Create a survey for my target audience Korean B students and
print out (The Difficulties of Foreign Teenagers in Learning Completed: November 12th, 2020
Korean)
● Complete OPVLs (Source for familiar use of terminology
used in linguistics)
● Think about the best way to learn and present information for
teenagers. (The way they are differentiated from adults or
children) For example, words or sentences that teenagers
might be interested in
● Think about visual materials to engage the audience

November 4th, 2020 ● Discuss about my personal project form with supervisor Added:November 4th, 2020
● Research on how to write Korean with strokes
Completed: November 11th, 2020

This is an excerpt from my process journal timeline which was created before and after I had a regular meeting with my supervisor. It’s
also created for my personal guide, personal timeline to check and keep my progress. I have constructed the timeline into 3 parts: Date,
Things that I need to complete, and Deadline. On the left side, I recorded the date when I wrote down what to do. Then, on the middle
section, I wrote down what I should complete during the next few days (deadline). The timeline was mostly written after I had a regular
meeting with my supervisor because my supervisor gave me advice based on the work that I did in previous week and based on the
feedback that I got, I have reflected on it and to not to forget my supervisors advice during the meeting, I have recorded down and
effectively used my timeline. Writing the timeline and keeping track of my progress were really helpful to me because I could clearly see
my progress throughout the process of making the product at the end. The reason why October 19th’s work is underlined is because it
now became irrelevant due to change in goal. Throughout the process, there were changes in goal and my target audience so the research
on grammar and sentences structure that I did on October 19th became useless. Therefore, I have underlined it.

These three evidence shows how I kept track throughout the whole process. I have effectively used a calendar to keep track
and set a reminder on what I should complete on the certain date. This was really helpful to me and made me stay motivated
because the to-do lists on the managebac are quite limited and generous rather than detailed. However, by creating my
personal to-do list and deadline by using a calendar application, It was a great opportunity to self-check in whether I am
keeping up with the progress or just procrastinating.

One of the other tools I used in my organization was a

meeting chart where I noted weekly meetings with my
supervisor. We tried to have regular meetings every
Wednesday because most of the deadlines and core lessons
were on Thursday. However, unexpected circumstances came
up a lot of the time because of e-learning. If this happened,
we communicated through email. Emails were also used to
give feedback and serve as reminders for tasks, as seen
below.

Development and Effectiveness of Timeline

Date What I have done

2020.10.13 I spent 30 minutes doing OPVL today about ‘how to pronounce the Korean alphabet (Hangul),’ and I found 2
reliable sources that provide information on Basic Korean pronunciation rules and uses of Romanization for
pronunciation on this topic. In addition, I identified 3 research skills from ATL skills. The 3 research skills are:
1. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and
formats
2. Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to
recognized conventions
3. Use critical-literacy skills to analyze and interpret media communication
Then, I spent 10 minutes writing about the connection between the global context and my personal project in
the personal project proposal draft.

2020.10.20 I spent 15 minutes reading through the examples of success criteria. Then, in 1 hour, I was able to create a
success criteria that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and testable for my project.

2020.10.21 I had a meeting with my supervisor after school from 3:20 to 4:00. We discussed the success criteria that I
created for my project. Then, I found 1 reliable source that I can use for my project.
https://www.sejonghakdang.org. In addition, I have changed my target audience from adolescent to children. I
have decided to create a survey for Grade 6 and 7 Korean B students to know what are the things they most
 struggle to understand and etc.

2020.10.22 Today, I worked on completing 1 OPVL and I spent time creating the survey for Grade 6 and 7 Korean B
students.

2020.11.04 Today, I had a meeting with my supervisor. We discussed and changed the age group of readers from Grade
6~7 to Grade 4~7. Also, we looked at the survey questions that I created before. Based on today’s conservation,
I will use google surveys to create several short answer questions (Approximately 15 questions) for grade 4~7.
The questions are most likely to ask them about their nationality, grade, how long have you been studying
Korean, How many languages can he/she speak, etc. This survey is due on Friday and will be shared with
Grade 4~7 Korean B students on Monday.

I have effectively used a timeline to keep my track and I wrote down how many hours/minutes I spent on each day on what. Using
the timeline, I could see at a glance what I did on that day and what I couldn't do, and I could feel a sense of accomplishment when
I completed what I had to do today.

My Success Criteria for an excellent product/outcome

Initial Success Criteria

Function 1. Must help readers understand how to speak and write Korean without any mistakes
2. Must be designed to improve the foreigners’ language and linguistic skills

Aesthetics 1. Must be visually engaging by adding graphics and using harmonious color schemes and fonts
2. Table of Contents must be well organized

Quality 1. Must contain some interesting facts about Korean or interactive materials
2. Should have no glitches by deadline

Structure 1. Must include at least five different chapters

2. Must include vocabulary page at the end of the book (Portable vocabulary book)

Other 1. Shouldn’t cost too much to make

2. Must be easy to understand

Finalized Success Criteria

Function 1. Must help readers to understand how to
pronounce and write Hangeul without any mistakes
2. Must be designed to improve teenagers aged 10 to 13 who do not speak Korean as their native
language’s language skills
a. Teach the most basic learning tool for reading and writing Korean

Aesthetics 1. Must be visually engaging by adding graphics and using harmonious color schemes and fonts
2. The table of contents must be well organized and easy to follow

Quality 1. Must contain audio files to help readers’ understanding of the language
a. Should use a variety of media to deliver the concepts and contents effectively by using
QR codes, audio files, etc.
2. Should have no glitches by deadlines
a. Effectively use planning tools, such as timelines and checklists to have no glitches

Structure 1. Must include at least 3 different chapters

2. The difficulty of the book will get harder as the chapter goes by
a. Must start with basic vowels and end with the principle of the syllabus
 Other 1. Shouldn’t cost too much to make
a. Should cost less than 30,000 KRW to make
2. The contents must be easy to understand for the young target audience
a. Focus on the level of the words to use for grade four to seven students

Date Things that I need to complete (Short term & Long term Deadline
goals)

2020.10.18 ● Complete 1 OPVL 2020.10.18

● Identify at least 3 research (ATL) skills
● Connection to Global context is given

2020.10.19 ● Criteria are specific, measurable, attainable, 2020.10.22

realistic, and testable
● Development of the criteria is recorded
(Complete Success Criteria)
● A clear and specific timeline is displayed
● Up-to-date progress is presented, following the
timeline and plan, with evidence
● Evidence of specific substantial organization skills
● Evidence of specific substantial effective skills
● Evidence of specific substantial reflection skills

2020.10.19 ● Research on grammar -

2020.10.19 Criterion A Draft 2020.11.12

● Defining a clear and challenging goal with a
related global context, based on personal interests
● Identifying prior learning and subject-specific
knowledge, generally relevant to the project
● Demonstrating substantial research skills,
including source evaluation with OPVL

2020.10.20 ● Table of Contents Prototype 2020.11.12

● Create a survey for Grade 6 & 7 Korean B students
and print out (The Difficulties of Foreign
Teenagers in Learning Korean)
 ● Complete OPVLs (Source for familiar use of
terminology used in linguistics)
● Think about the best way to learn and present
information for teenagers. (The way they are
differentiated from adults or children) For
example, words or sentences that teenagers might
be interested in
● Think about visual materials to engage the
audience

2020.11.3 Things that I should work on today 2020.11.4

● Complete Personal Project Criterion A draft
- defining a clear and challenging goal with a
related global context, based on personal interests
- identifying prior learning and subject-specific
knowledge, generally relevant to the project
- demonstrating substantial research skills,
including source evaluation with OPVL
● Create a proper “Works Cited” list and citations
● Complete 2 OPVLs
● Table of contents prototype

2020.11.4 ● Discuss about my ‘Personal Project Form’ with

supervisor
● Research on how to write Korean

Visual / Aesthetics

I wrote down in my success criteria that my product must be

visually engaging by adding graphics and using harmonious
color schemes and fonts. Hence, to meet this success criteria,
I have used harmonious color schemes to create a visually
appealing product for my readers. I have referred to the color
wheel and chose to work with dark yellow, gray, brown, and
black for my background/font color and used bright red to
write down the strokes. I have also researched the effects of
each color to maximize its effect. For example, the reason
why I have used color red for writing the stroke order is
because the order of strokes are really important in writing
Korean alphabet. Hence, to emphasize the order, I have used
red which is one of the most powerful colors and a warning
color. On the other hand, yellow, grey, and brown are quite

Evaluating Success of Product
Specification
Must help readers to understand how to
pronounce and write Hangeul without any
mistakes
Must be designed to improve teenagers aged 10
to 13 who do not speak Korean as their native
language’s language skills
Must be visually engaging by adding graphics
and using harmonious color schemes and fonts
The table of contents must be well organized
and easy to follow
neutral and calm colors which would help readers focus on
the contents of the book.
Evidence Met
Since I have both included how to write and pronounce vowel and ✓
consonant, I believe the readers should understand how to
pronounce and write Hangeul without any mistakes because the
stroke orders are given in a step-by-step manner and QR codes of
audio file of rp each vowel and consonant are provided
The contents that I delivered in the book (How to write consonants, ✓
vowels and how do we apply the concepts of consonants and
vowels to write words or phrases) were appropriate for teengers
aged 10 to 13 who do not speak Korean as their native language.
✓
As shown in the appendix G, I have used harmonious color
schemes by referring to the color scheme wheel to make my
product visually appealing as well as making the readers want to
read my ebook. I have also done some research on the effects of
each color to maximize its effects on the readers.
My table of contents were organized ✓
and easy-to-follow. Starting from
the basic to the complex logic
(syllabus of composition), I was able to
create an organized table of contents by
reflecting the feedback that I got
 Must contain audio files to help readers’ ✓
understanding of the language

If my product is just visually appealing and contentful without any

audio files, I couldn’t be able to effectively deliver my knowledge
to the readers because considering that my target audience is
young, reading and reading is just too boring and uncomfortable for
them. Hence, I have also added audio files on pronunciation for
each vowel and consonant to effectively deliver my knowledge.
Even if my target audience is young, just by scanning the code
from the device, one could easily hear the accurate pronunciation
and this will make them interested and keen to learn a new
language.

Should have no glitches by deadlines Overall, there were no glitches by deadlines but now that I think
about it, I believe my product would have been better if I added a
few more examples of composing words and phrases on the last
page. For example, I have only gave an example of ‘가방' which
means bag in Korean. However, not only just providing an example
on the word, I should have also spent time on teaching my readers
how to write longer phrases such as “안녕하세요" (Hello) by
combining vowels with consonants.

Must include at least 3 different chapters I have created five chapters ✓

1) Basic vowels
2) Double vowels
3) Single consonants
4) Double consonants
5) Syllabus composition

The difficulty of the book will get harder as the The difficulty of the book got harder as I expected. My book begins ✓
chapter goes by by exploring the basic vowels and ends with creating
words/phrases by combining vowels and consonants that are taught
in chapter one to four.

Shouldn’t cost too much to make ✓

My
success criteria was that it shouldn’t cost more than 30,000 KRW.
As I expected, I have only spent 9,900 KRW to create my final
product. I have only bought this book and I got knowledge from
other free ebooks or free onlines sources.
The contents must be easy to understand for the I have used easy languages and didn’t use too many words to make ✓
young target audience my ebook understandable for the young target audience also.