South Korea and United Kingdom: There’s a popular Korean song, ‘Encounter,’ which resounded in the dining room during a farewell party for 20 elementary and 20 secondary school English teachers, who were finishing a three-week training program in Oxford, England, notes the Korea Times.
The three-week program aimed to expose Korean English teachers to an authentic [...]
South Korea: English is playing an important role in Korea, but it can often come with a steep price tag. Last year alone, Koreans spent W10 trillion (US$1 = W1,427) at private education facilities. Now native English speakers have launched a non-profit organization called HOPE to provide free, safe and accessible language classes to children [...]
South Korea and California: Korean elementary education teachers have each individually applied and been selected by the Korean government to participate in this program that focuses on teaching English as a foreign language. After spending five months in Korea studying English, these K-6 teachers spend a month in the US becoming immersed in the language [...]
South Korea: The Korean government recently announced that it would open English language teaching positions to people from the Philippines and other countries that use English as official language, reports the Korea times. However, what remains to be seen is when this will actually be put into practice. Despite pledges to widen the market, Korea [...]
South Korea & California: Chloe Seong has an intense month ahead of her at Cal State San Bernardino. Seong, 30, a fifth-grade teacher, is one of 22 elementary teachers from Seoul, Korea, selected by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to spend four weeks gaining expertise in teaching English to those who speak another lanuage.
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South Korea: In news that is more disappointing than truly shocking, only about half of native English speakers working at Seoul schools are reported to have renewed their contracts for 2009. “Some foreign teachers did not want to renew due to the devaluing of the won, while others cited worsening relations between South and North [...]
South Korea: What is the future of English language teaching? The answers appear to be more students taking more exams and using more technology in the classroom, suggests the Korea Times. However, the question is whether this is really a surprise to anyone working in an ESL or EFL environment like Korea.
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The Korea Times has introduced three audio and visual programs. The programs are phone conversations with English language natives, learning from AP TV video news clips aided by a Korean lecturer and Times editorials by two experienced lecturers based on an English native’s reading. The phone conversation program is good for those who have few [...]
Matt Romer is one of several foreigners who are part of a non-profit organization HOPE, which stands for Helping Others Prosper through English. HOPE is the brainchild of a group of Canadian teachers who were looking to make a positive contribution to Korean society.
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The Korea Times reports that the government is overhauling its plan to recruit 23,000 new assistant English teachers among Koreans who don’t have teaching licenses, said the nation’s top educator. To improve English education, the government had planned to give them civil servant positions under 3-5 year renewable contracts. This plan, originally proposed by President [...]
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