Korea: Pressure to teach in English grows

[Francis Hult]

JoongAng Daily

 

Pressure to teach in English grows

 

Yoon Yeon-mo, a 50-year-old female English teacher at Sorabol High School in northern Seoul, has been taking a course to obtain a certificate called Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at a university in Seoul since last month.

It may seem bizarre for a person who already teaches English to obtain yet another certificate. But she confesses she had to improve her English to teach students whose English is as good as that of native speakers.

 

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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2908514

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