Korean is the seventh most commonly spoken language in the United States, and Korean heritage students―those with some proficiency in or a cultural connection to the language through family or community―make up a substantial portion of Korean learners at the college level. Many schools offer a separate heritage track for learning Korean, but until now there has been no textbook designed specifically for heritage learners as well as the increasing number of students from diverse backgrounds who are interested in pursuing intensive learning to build on their prior experience with Korean.

Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 and 2 directly address the linguistic needs and abilities of heritage and accelerated learners in a single academic year. Volume 1 presents lessons on thematically organized subjects, starting with familiar topics such as family, friends, daily routines, schoolwork, campus activities, dining out, and shopping. Volume 2 advances to more formal subjects beyond family and friends, such as travel, transportation, housing, holidays, lifestyles, careers, and Korean history and culture. Students approach the lessons with multilevel communicative classroom activities and reading materials with standards-based exercises and projects that not only address the particular language requirements of heritage learners, but also encourage them to participate more fully in their own family and community life. Each volume’s textbook and workbook offer authentic conversations and texts in both informal and formal contexts, structured tasks, and a wealth of interesting and relevant cultural content.

Integrated Korean is a project of the Korean Language Education and Research Center (KLEAR) with the support of the Korea Foundation. In addition to the five-level Integrated Korean textbooks and workbooks, vol­umes include Korean Composition, Korean Language in Culture and Soci­ety, Korean Reader for Chinese Characters, Readings in Modern Korean Lit­erature, A Resource for Korean Grammar Instruction, and Selected Read­ings in Korean.

Audio files for Accelerated Korean may be downloaded in MP3 format at https://kleartextbook.com.

• Yuseon Yun, Author

  Yuseon Yun is lecturer in Korean Language, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.

• Jeeyoung Ahn Ha, Author

  Jeeyoung Ahn Ha is director of the Korean language program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

• Hee Chung Chun, Author

  Hee Chung Chun is assistant teaching professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University.

• Ho-min Sohn, Series Editor

  Ho-min Sohn is professor emeritus of Korean language and linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.