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Smithington
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 Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:47 pm Post subject: Anyone teaching "English literature" in Korea? |
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At the pub last night and talking to a mate. She has an interview to teach "English literature" at a high school in Daejeon. Her degree is in English as a second language. Not exactly the same thing. Also, if you're teaching Shakespeare or Shelley to Koreans, how would that work, exactly? And why would a high school even put English lit on their curriculum?
Anyone here teaching this subject at high school or university? I'd think the students would need to be basically fluent in English and aware of cultural peculiarites pf earlier periods in British history. Do you find yourself showing Holywood movies to get your students acquainted with the period and setting first? It just seems there's a lot of mountains to climb for the students to understand and analyse what they are reading?
Or is Harry Potter and the like on the curriculum.  |
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CentralCali
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps it's one of the "foreign language high schools" and the English curriculum is (supposed to be) following what an English curriculum would follow in a high school back in one of the "Big Seven" countries. |
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Lucas
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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At the pub last night and talking to a mate. She has an interview to teach "English literature" at a high school in Daejeon. Her degree is in English as a second language. Not exactly the same thing. Also, if you're teaching Shakespeare or Shelley to Koreans, how would that work, exactly? And why would a high school even put English lit on their curriculum?
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I hope you get a new job sorted soon. If she gets the job, try not to be too bitter. Talk to, and learn from her  |
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thetawnyman
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| English literature is sometimes taught at Korean foreign language high schools as an after-school class. Most if not all the students are pretty fluent in English. Last time I did it we covered texts like Brave New World and Siddhartha. |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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At the pub last night and talking to a mate. She has an interview to teach "English literature" at a high school in Daejeon. Her degree is in English as a second language. Not exactly the same thing. Also, if you're teaching Shakespeare or Shelley to Koreans, how would that work, exactly? And why would a high school even put English lit on their curriculum?
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I hope you get a new job sorted soon. If she gets the job, try not to be too bitter. Talk to, and learn from her |
This from someone who gets his pocket money from an 'allowance' and paper route. |
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Lucas
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| This from someone who gets his pocket money from an 'allowance' and paper route. |
Keep telling yourself that.
You need to be self-reflective, like me. I'm so reflective I start fires!
Learn from your mistakes. I know you're not a bad chap, you just need that break. |
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fustiancorduroy
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| fustiancorduroy wrote: |
| Sure, I've taught English literature here before, mostly to kids who attend school in the US or the international schools . |
| TheTawnyman wrote: |
| English literature is sometimes taught at Korean foreign language high schools as an after-school class |
Some of the universities also teach it. |
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thetawnyman
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| To teach proper literature at a university you need a PhD. High schools are not as picky; they'll take lit majors with an MA or even just a BA if it's from a good school. |
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Chaparrastique
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| Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| thetawnyman wrote: |
| To teach proper literature at a university you need a PhD. High schools are not as picky; they'll take lit majors with an MA or even just a BA if it's from a good school. |
Korean high school students only understand korean. How is it even possible to teach them a subject in english? |
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FMPJ
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| Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I teach AP English Lit. |
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meangradin
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| I teach AP English Lit. |
I took AP English and Literature. |
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thetawnyman
Joined: 25 Sep 2014
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
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| To teach proper literature at a university you need a PhD. High schools are not as picky; they'll take lit majors with an MA or even just a BA if it's from a good school. |
Korean high school students only understand korean. How is it even possible to teach them a subject in english? |
Some high schools have students that have mostly lived abroad. I taught literature at a foreign language high school as an afterschool class. Almost all of my students were pretty close to fluent. The students in that program regularly got into top US universities. |
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Chaparrastique
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| thetawnyman wrote: |
| Some high schools have students that have mostly lived abroad. I taught literature at a foreign language high school as an afterschool class. Almost all of my students were pretty close to fluent. The students in that program regularly got into top US universities. |
What are your qualifications, if you don't mind my asking? Did you need a teachers lisence? MA? |
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UKKOR
Joined: 05 Oct 2014
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:47 am Post subject: |
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I teach English Literature and Debate at a private international school and just English at a Hagwon (both in Gangnam, Seoul).
I have an MA in English Language and Literature from a university in England.
It's totally do-able, this is my first teaching job with no previous experience. Although I think I got the job because I am bilingual (some schools only hire people who are able to communicate with the parents in Korean), but while I was job hunting there were plenty of opportunities and the pay is higher and the hours are shorter. Good luck. |
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