Korea: 53% of Foreign Tutors Lack Teaching Degrees

[Francis Hult]

The Korea Times

 

53% of Foreign Tutors Lack Teaching Degrees

 

More than half of foreign teachers at elementary and secondary schools have no English teaching certificates. Of 3,808 native English-speaking teachers, 2,002, or 53 percent, didn't have teaching certificates such as TESOL and TEFL as of September 2007, according to the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development, Sunday.

TESOL is short for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and TEFL means Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Among 1,806 foreign nationals who hold English teaching certificates, 532 teachers had teaching licenses from their countries, 1,134 had TESOL or TEFL and 140 had both.

 

Full story:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/01/117_18009.html

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