Inyoung's Blog

Inyoung is one of the most hard-working students of this class. She is operating her own academy and enthusiastic to improve her students’ English.

In study group discussion, we used to discuss ‘why Koreans learn English?’ As you know, Koreans are likely to say because they have to get good scores at standardized English tests in order to get a good job, get admission from universities in English-speaking countries, or get a promotion at work. As an English teacher, we’re confused what teacher’s is. She said “To teach test skills in grammar and reading is excellent as a teacher, but I can't tell that I'm good at teaching spoken English. 99% of parents ask me good scores for their children and it makes me focus on teaching test skills... But I believe language learning should help learners express their ideas and emotions freely. I hope to manage my class with discussion, debate, presentation and writing various papers but I'm sure that I'll lose most of my students.”

But I know that our children’s English ability is getting better and better because of Korean English teachers’ effort and passion as like Inyoung.