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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Byon, Andrew Sangpil – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2008
The article describes the development of Korean as a foreign language (KFL) in the USA, from its modest beginnings in the 1940s, through a period of rapid growth that began in the late 1970s, to its present strong position at all levels of the educational system, including elementary and secondary school, the universities, and the government…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Languages, Second Language Instruction, Student Needs
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Byon, Andrew Sangpil – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2007
This paper investigates a case of designing, implementing, and evaluating a semester-long culture portfolio project in a Korean culture class in an American university setting. The paper addresses the following four issues: (1) How does the project help the students gain insights into a particular aspect of Korean culture and encourage them to…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Learning Experience, Korean, Korean Culture
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Byon, Andrew Sangpil – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2003
Transcripts were made of teacher-student conversations in four Hawaiian classrooms in which Korean is taught as a heritage language. The study examines the use of the sentence-ending particle "yo," the meaning of the particle, the way it is used in interaction, and its sociopragmatic implication. The following research questions are addressed: (1)…
Descriptors: Korean, Heritage Education, Socialization, Second Language Instruction