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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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 Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:16 am Post subject: Re: Don't you hate... |
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Don't you hate the blank stares.
The open mouth and lookin of uncomprehension when you ask a simple question.
Having them to ask a friend for a translation of what you said
Be doing english for over 5 years and have trouble putting a sentence together.
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YOUR FELLOW KOREAN ENGLISH TEACHING COWORKERS!
My head teacher for one school speaks horrible english. Can not put a sentence togother with out thinking a minute. Writes yoda like messages. (heck I understand Yoda I barely comprehend her messages). And the has been teaching english for over 5 years (at this one school).
I have other teachers who are supposed to be ENGLISH teachers be confused by a simple question or statement like - "How was your weekend?" or "I like your earrings!".
On the other end I have very capable and knowledgeable coworkers. Can talk away the day with them
But this mystifies me. Why do these teaches get a job teaching english when the can not speak it.
ARGH make me want to scream!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Skippy <shakes head and walks off> |
Skippy, because you are not a native speaker of English, but you have reached a fairly high level of proficiency, you will tend to be harder on others who are speaking English as a second language.
According to the FL literature, you would also be harder on your students than a native speaker. I also know this from my own experience. When I was in ther USA I taught both French and ESL. I was much harder on my French students (Americans) than I was on my ESL students.
However, please don't be too hard on them. Although your post was quite good, there were a few too many problems. 
I do, however, congradulate you on your willingness to speak English with the other Korean teachers. I have found that even Korean English professors with PhD's in English ONLY use Korean with each other.
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Crois
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: You could be next so watch out.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:18 am Post subject: |
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Thought i'd post again before Gwangju Chicken double posts.  |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Crois wrote: |
| Thought i'd post again before Gwangju Chicken double posts. |
Actually, after I had posted on this thread I noticed it was almost 11:30 PM. I was in the library which closes at 11:00. Always a few minutes before 11:00 the old man at the desk at the entrance tells me it is time to go. He is a nice old guy, and sometimes gives me one of the bottles of vitamine drinks.
Well, last night at 11:30, as I was leaving, I saw him at his desk face down.
I thought, Oh My God, he is dead.   What should I do? So,
I cleared my throat a bit. Nothing. Then I coughed. Nothing. Then did the same thing over and over ....... each time a little louder. Then he woke up.
He looked at his watch, then he looked at me and realised what I had thought was the problem. Then he said, "Not dead". |
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