Tag: learning

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.

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

Teaching and Learning . . . and Well-being

Gwangju News

When we think about teaching and learning, we think of all the time and effort teachers put into lesson planning and the ever-present administrative work, and we think of all the time students spend hunched over their textbooks, doing homework, and cramming for tests. Little do we think of our own well-being or that of our students.

Education

The Raemi School: Looking at the Future from a Different Perspective – The Other Way Around!

Gwangju News

The Raemi School’s name was coined by the first cohort of students themselves when the school was established in 2012. Raemi (래미) is the reversal of the syllables of the Korean word mirae (미래), which means “future.”

Language Teaching

Major Roadblocks to Language Learning

Gwangju News

Words and photo provided by Dr. David Shaffer There are very few of us – as language teachers or as language learners – who would suggest that learning a foreign … Read More

Language Teaching

Giving Back Feedback in the Classroom

Gwangju News

Dr. David Shaffer covers the important but sensitive area of giving feedback in the classroom