The terribly tragic case of Bill Kapoun has affected me and many others greatly. I’ll not go into great details here, as I’d prefer you to visit the website and blog for yourselves, in the hope that it will convince to help out his poor family however you can in these awful times.
His unfortunate passing [...]
South Korea: The Korea Times – English Education Needs to Start at Earlier Ages
The English frenzy in Korea has produced many popular teachers who are good at helping students get higher scores in English tests. A famous former English instructor says some of these “star teachers” are misleading English learners. Read the full story…
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An article in the Korea Times notes the need for professional qualifications:
English educators have stressed the need for professional qualifications in the ‘art’ of English teaching if teachers are to help students learn the language in an effective way. They said the presidential transition team’s plan to hire skill-based teachers disregards the rule that there is an art to teaching. A fluent [...]
EFL Geek, an English instructor and language learner in Korea, has started a Wiki for his EFL blog which can be accessed here at EFL Geek Wiki. The Geek writes:
The wiki is hosted by EFL Geek and discussion about articles or ideas for the wikis future can be done in the EFL Geek forums. [...]
Hoo (Paul) Kang is the founder of the Teaching Kimchi website (www.teachingkimchi.com), a site primarily devoted to English language teaching in South Korea. He has been generous enough to spare some of his time to talk about his site and his views on teaching:
What’s the purpose of your site?
I wanted TeachingKimchi dot com to be [...]
The best advice discussion over on the Your Life Teaching English forum has brought up a lot of interesting and worthwhile responses from forum members. Thanks also to Saint, who has left his advice, hope to see you on the forums soon.
I’ve recently stumbled on an article connected to this discussion over at [...]
There’s a thought provoking article by Rafael Sabio in a recent online edition of the Korean Times in which he details how he feels the English education system can be improved. Here are some of his comments:
One way in which to improve the English education system in Korea is to mandate background checks. As university [...]
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be showcasing the work of one of the stars of our profession, by delivering you regular extracts from TEFLTastic with Alex Case.In this extract from the Advice for teachers section of his website, Alex comments on the ever dangerous subject of nationalism, and the pitfalls of it rearing its ugly head in the [...]
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