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Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 14:30
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Dear BG Kotesol Members and friends,
Spring is finally here and we definitely all got a good taste of it with the weather reaching the high teens yesterday. The semester has started and students are getting motivated. It’s time to bring some of the energetic motivation to our meetings. We have an exciting day planned this weekend.
Our day will start off with presentations from Terry Faulkner and Lyndon Hott. Terry will demon...strate his extensive ESL experience through his newest research on helping teachers identify different teaching tactics between young and adult learners. Lyndon Hott will reveal the process and strategies his recent research team has implemented on making reading and writing an exciting topic in freshman university courses. Please review their abstracts and bios in more detail below.
After our meeting, we will travel across Busan and meet up for a different Korean dining experience. Kim mee ja, is a vegetarian buffet located near the KSU subway station. After dinner, we will be heading out to celebrate the St. Patrick’s day with live music from the TACO HANDSHAKE Band at Ol'55 as most of you know Angus, our previous president, is a member. There are also other bands playing that evening too.
We look forward to seeing everyone and enjoying this 1st spring BG Kotesol meeting and post celebrations.
ABSTRACTS
Teaching younger English language learners in South Korea requires a special skill set, a lot of patience and some luck. Younger Koreans are often placed into language programs not of their own accord but because their parents wish it. The teacher, in accommodating the wishes of the parents, administration, and/or the Board of Education may be asked to teach in ways that may be in direct conflict with what would be beneficial to learners.
A teacher’s job might involve a frustrating mix of entertaining students, controlling behavior and/or simply increasing test scores all while attempting to preserve a sense of wellbeing. Often the responsibility for successful language acquisition lies on the shoulders of the teacher. An open-minded and well-informed teacher can however find alternatives to accommodate both the learners and the institutions in which learning occurs.
This presentation will identify the pertinent differences between young and adult learners then shift to provide examples of ways to help teachers react to the increasing demands of the ELT profession in Korea by highlighting ways in which the classroom, the text book(s) and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary can be adapted to suit the needs of young Korean learners.
If time permits, I will include a demonstration about how to make music videos with students as a long-term project.
Terry is a native of Denver Colorado with nine years combined EFL experience in China and South Korea and a summer ESL music program in the US. He was a university English instructor in China and South Korea as well as being a teacher-trainer with high, middle and elementary school experience in Korea. He specialises in student motivation and removing the affective filter. He is currently a freelance EFL teacher in Changwon with both adult students and younger learners.
Reading and writing courses have traditionally only been taught by the Korean faculty while the native speaker faculty are relegated to conversation courses. This has resulted in little overlap between teachers of different courses and confusion amongst the students. The Freshman Integrated Program seeks to rectify this by having teachers teach the reading and writing courses in addition to conversation. These two courses are integrated with the conversation course. Integrating the courses has made it possible to have overlying aims and objectives for all three courses. The goal of the program is to improve the learners' reading and writing skills by giving them access to a large variety of authentic material with level-appropriate activities. This presentation will elaborate on how the instructors met together regularly to plan, planning that includes the creation of supplementary materials, exams and homework projects. Finally, this presentation will show how the teachers of the program are attempting to make an area of English that is typically considered dry by learners, more exciting and motivating.
Lyndon Hott has been an English Instructor in Korea since 2007 where he has taught high school, middle school and university students. He is currently working at Dongguk University as leader of the Freshman integrated Program in Gyeongju and is doing a M.A. in TEFL/TESL through the University of Birmingham, England. Lyndon can be contacted via email at [email protected].
What: March Chapter Meeting
When: Saturday, March 19th, at 2:30pm
Where: On the 4th floor of the ESS in Nampo Dong: subway exit #7 (unmarked), turn left around the corner, the building is on the left.
Who: All members and non-members invited.
We hope to see you there and bring on the St. Patrick’s Day spirit by wearing some green!
BG-KOTESOL
Spring is finally here and we definitely all got a good taste of it with the weather reaching the high teens yesterday. The semester has started and students are getting motivated. It’s time to bring some of the energetic motivation to our meetings. We have an exciting day planned this weekend.
Our day will start off with presentations from Terry Faulkner and Lyndon Hott. Terry will demon...strate his extensive ESL experience through his newest research on helping teachers identify different teaching tactics between young and adult learners. Lyndon Hott will reveal the process and strategies his recent research team has implemented on making reading and writing an exciting topic in freshman university courses. Please review their abstracts and bios in more detail below.
After our meeting, we will travel across Busan and meet up for a different Korean dining experience. Kim mee ja, is a vegetarian buffet located near the KSU subway station. After dinner, we will be heading out to celebrate the St. Patrick’s day with live music from the TACO HANDSHAKE Band at Ol'55 as most of you know Angus, our previous president, is a member. There are also other bands playing that evening too.
We look forward to seeing everyone and enjoying this 1st spring BG Kotesol meeting and post celebrations.
ABSTRACTS
Teaching younger English language learners in South Korea requires a special skill set, a lot of patience and some luck. Younger Koreans are often placed into language programs not of their own accord but because their parents wish it. The teacher, in accommodating the wishes of the parents, administration, and/or the Board of Education may be asked to teach in ways that may be in direct conflict with what would be beneficial to learners.
A teacher’s job might involve a frustrating mix of entertaining students, controlling behavior and/or simply increasing test scores all while attempting to preserve a sense of wellbeing. Often the responsibility for successful language acquisition lies on the shoulders of the teacher. An open-minded and well-informed teacher can however find alternatives to accommodate both the learners and the institutions in which learning occurs.
This presentation will identify the pertinent differences between young and adult learners then shift to provide examples of ways to help teachers react to the increasing demands of the ELT profession in Korea by highlighting ways in which the classroom, the text book(s) and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary can be adapted to suit the needs of young Korean learners.
If time permits, I will include a demonstration about how to make music videos with students as a long-term project.
Terry is a native of Denver Colorado with nine years combined EFL experience in China and South Korea and a summer ESL music program in the US. He was a university English instructor in China and South Korea as well as being a teacher-trainer with high, middle and elementary school experience in Korea. He specialises in student motivation and removing the affective filter. He is currently a freelance EFL teacher in Changwon with both adult students and younger learners.
Reading and writing courses have traditionally only been taught by the Korean faculty while the native speaker faculty are relegated to conversation courses. This has resulted in little overlap between teachers of different courses and confusion amongst the students. The Freshman Integrated Program seeks to rectify this by having teachers teach the reading and writing courses in addition to conversation. These two courses are integrated with the conversation course. Integrating the courses has made it possible to have overlying aims and objectives for all three courses. The goal of the program is to improve the learners' reading and writing skills by giving them access to a large variety of authentic material with level-appropriate activities. This presentation will elaborate on how the instructors met together regularly to plan, planning that includes the creation of supplementary materials, exams and homework projects. Finally, this presentation will show how the teachers of the program are attempting to make an area of English that is typically considered dry by learners, more exciting and motivating.
Lyndon Hott has been an English Instructor in Korea since 2007 where he has taught high school, middle school and university students. He is currently working at Dongguk University as leader of the Freshman integrated Program in Gyeongju and is doing a M.A. in TEFL/TESL through the University of Birmingham, England. Lyndon can be contacted via email at [email protected].
What: March Chapter Meeting
When: Saturday, March 19th, at 2:30pm
Where: On the 4th floor of the ESS in Nampo Dong: subway exit #7 (unmarked), turn left around the corner, the building is on the left.
Who: All members and non-members invited.
We hope to see you there and bring on the St. Patrick’s Day spirit by wearing some green!
BG-KOTESOL
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