Tag: language

Language Teaching

The Story on Using Stories for Language Learning

Gwangju News

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.

Language Teaching

Of Many Tongues: Speaker, Learner, Teacher

Gwangju News

It is not very often that we run into a person who is a speaker of many languages. It is even rarer to meet a polyglot who has had formal instruction in not only learning languages but also in teaching. Our interview here is with one such person living amongst us here in Gwangju: Aline Verduyn. She has much to offer on speaking, learning, and teaching multiple languages.

Jeolla History

The Secrets of Jeju

Gwangju News

Everyone on the peninsula is familiar with Jeju-do – Korea’s largest island but smallest province. But what far fewer people are aware of is the story of its founding or how great a place Jeju is to visit in the wintertime.

Language Teaching

Playfulness: In Teaching and Learning

Gwangju News

Learning a second language is time-consuming hard work. We do not usually think of it as something enjoyable. But maybe that is where our thinking has gone wrong. Bryan Hale is an advocate for “playfulness” in EFL teaching and learning whom we were recently able to interview on the topic. Bryan teaches at Yeongam High School. He is presently the president of Korea TESOL and a past president of the Gwangju-Jeonnam KOTESOL Chapter.

Language Teaching

Funds of Knowledge for the Classroom

Gwangju News

Interview with Maria Lisak. It is obvious that knowledge is related to education and teaching EFL, but it is not so obvious what “funds of knowledge” is. Although the concept … Read More

Gwangju Writes

Rhythmic Play for Limerick Day

Gwangju News

By Muthukumar Elangovan. A limerick is short, funny, and often rude poetry that usually consists of five lines with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA. The first, second, and fifth … Read More

Language Teaching

The Cosmopolitan Classroom: Transformation Through Encounters with Difference

Gwangju News

Interview with Lindsay Herron. I thought I was aware of what cosmopolitanism entailed, that is, until I saw a presentation on cosmopolitanism and EFL learners at a Korea TESOL event. … Read More

Local Enterpreneur

Mastering Language the Tong Tong Way: Where Korean Becomes Easy

Gwangju News

Interview by Melline Galani. Photographs courtesy of Tong Tong Language Class. Gwangju News (GN): Hello, and thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Please introduce yourselves to … Read More