First Contact in Korea: A Native English Teachers Journey Into the Backwoods of South Korea

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You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. There has been an exploding demand for native English speakers to teach English in South Korea. English programs and English academies have been spreading like wildfire all over Korea. And, due to an unpredictable economy, many university graduates, travelers, and people from all walks of life are packing their bags and taking advantage of the English boom in Korea.

This is the complete guidebook on how to relocate to South Korea and become an English teacher. This book illustrates the many advantages low taxes, high standard of living, friendly people, safe streets and challenges dating, language barriers, disciplining students, getting along with co-workers that the first time teacher can expect to confront in Korea.

First Contact in Korea: A Native English Teacher's Journey to Korea. Brian Ward

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Introduced in this chapter is Carlo, an English teacher famous for drinking with Russians, getting bit by his students and his travels throughout Morocco. In this chapter I get fired from my first job and start a new job. I am also forced to learn a little bit about Korean culture in order to be able to converse better with my students.

I learn which class tattled on me for playing Monopoly every day in class.

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I also try different techniques for disciplining my students. I also discuss the advantages of talking with the students versus making them do exercises and what makes talking to the students so difficult. I finally get the bright idea of discussing the rules in class. There are two types of English teachers in Mokpo, those who hang out in the bars and the other who hang out in church.

Frankly I was getting tired of hanging out with the English teachers in bars. I decide to go to church instead. On my first day of church I discover that there is free orange juice and cookies served after each session. Jung who explains to me why the street in Korea are so clean and how it affects retired Korean people. I also get my first private English student.

I go to my first baseball game. Chapter 5 Modem vs. I was going to do a one year contract and have a tremendous experience before returning home. I ended up liking it so much that I spent most of the next ten years there. Most foreign English teachers planning to go to South Korea have to start off with one very big decision. Should they start off by teaching in a hagwon an academy or at a public school?

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Both of these have a number of good and bad points as well as numerous pitfalls to avoid. This book provides a very detailed guide to teaching at hagwons and public schools, explains some of the issues and classroom scenarios teachers may face and offers suggestions for preventing difficult situations or handling them as and when they arise. Learn what motivates young Korean learners, what activities they like, what aspects of English they struggle with, what problems sometimes occur in the classroom and what to do about them.

Discover what will be expected of you at your workplace, what information you need to establish and check for before signing a contract and why things happen at work in Korea in the way that they do Scopri ora tutti i romanzi della regina del rosa contemporaneo Clicca qui.

Descrizione prodotto Sinossi Deciding whether to go to South Korea to teach English is a life-changing decision and this book will help readers make a well-informed choice. Formato Kindle Dimensioni file: Crazy Chopstick Publications 3 gennaio Venduto da: Amazon Media EU S. Condividi i tuoi pensieri con altri clienti. Scrivi una recensione cliente. This is an okay book, but with little information that I had not obtained elsewhere. Note that the A - Z is literal, not metaphorical. It was a quick read, though, and nicely organized.

There has been an exploding demand for native English speakers to teach English in South Korea. English programs and English academies have been spreading like wildfire all over Korea. And, due to an unpredictable economy, many university graduates, travelers, and people from all walks of life are packing their bags and taking advantage of the English boom in Korea. This is the complete guidebook on how to relocate to South Korea and become an English teacher.

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