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Murfield, Ryan – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to identify challenges in a first attempt at teaching the Youth Lens in a secondary English classroom in South Korea. Design/methodology/approach: This paper includes the author's observations of a senior English class in an international school in South Korea. Findings: The author advocates that intersections of time,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Ellis, Rod – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
There is a wealth of literature examining the role of motivation in second language (L2) learning but remarkably little research that has examined how teachers can foster motivation in the classroom. For this reason alone Guilloteaux and Dornyei's (2008) correlational study of the relationship between motivational strategies and student motivation…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Song, Juyoung – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
Amidst emerging trends in transnational migration via globalization, an increasing number of families have gone abroad to help their school-aged children and youth gain international education credentials and provide them an opportunity to acquire English as a global language as early as possible. This early study abroad before college (ESA) has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Migration, Role of Education
Jambor, Paul Z. – Online Submission, 2005
This paper looks at South Korea as an example of a collectivist society having a rather large power distance dimension value. In a traditional Korean classroom the teacher is at the top of the classroom hierarchy, while the students are the passive participants. Gender and age play a role in the hierarchy between students themselves. Teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences, Teacher Student Relationship
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Cha, Mi Yang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2002
Addresses the question of whether there is any difference in the nature of learning English between English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) and English-as-a- Second-Language (ESL) learning situations. Specific focus is on Koreans learning English in two contrasting situations--EFL in Korea and ESL in Dehli India. Findings yield implications for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Kim, Youngsang – 2001
This paper discusses the importance in Korea of learning to speak English proficiently, and describes a 16-week course designed to advance such proficiency. The paper begins with a general description of the importance of English in the curriculum of Korean higher education, and how important it is to obtain and keep professional employment, which…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries