ESL Blogs

Korean English Hagwons

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Why can’t the Korean goverment sort out the mess of the teaching of English in this country? First of all, the new president and his team announce a plan for all English classes in high schools to be taught exclusively in English by their Korean English teachers (immersion) by 2010. Then it changes to 2013 and now the idea has been dropped completely. Read more »

Korea - Land of the Unqualified


You don’t need a teaching qualification to be an English Teacher to work in Korea. Not even in the universities! Read more »

Using DVDs in the Classroom: Misunderstood Art!

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Recently I’ve been using some clips from favourite tv shows in the classroom like Friends and The X-Files. Unfortunately parent power has raised its ugly head once more.. Read more »