Flipping the Classroom: Walking in Students’ Shoes
“This warm welcome reminded me to be mindful of our students’ current circumstances.”
Category: Teaching & Learning
The Guest English Teachers’ Program
Each team-teaching relationship was more different than similar.
Learning Korean: The Adventure Continues
“A better strategy is to be ‘a foreigner who speaks Korean pretty well.’”
Teaching Teachers and Principals
“Trainees are in a unique position as teachers to re-assume the role of student – an excellent opportunity to use experiential learning to help them reconsider alternative perspectives.”
Curriculum-Building for Student Workshops
“I decided to focus on just three important elements: choosing a topic, planning, and audience experience.”
Fun & Free: Creating Multilinguals at the GIC Korean–Chinese Language Exchange
“It is definitely the most genuine and wholehearted language exchange program you could ever wish to experience.”
How to Study Chinese Characters
“They will make you a monster on the reading section of the TOPIK.”
The Story on Using Stories for Language Learning
Everyone likes stories! We listened to stories from our mother as soon as we were old enough to hear. We followed attentively as we were read storybook stories (over and over) at bedtime. The main form of teaching for millennia has been via stories told by village elders to the children. If people like stories so much and if learning, including first-language learning, takes place through stories, how effective would they be in teaching a second language such as English? To answer this question, we look to Jessica Magnusson.