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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:51 am Post subject: |
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| phaedrus wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
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It's a point but I think your average foreign ESL teacher already gets a lot of privileges and breaks, at least in the eyes of the comparable and sometimes more competent Korean coworkers.
Letting the whitey book off early Christmas and New Years eve would not play well at all. |
Well, they certainly aren't as competent in the area that matters the most, which is speaking English. |
Well, maybe where you teach. But my Korean english co-teachers (grammar and listening) are quite good at speaking. |
Yet, despite their excellent abilities, you have a job. |
Yes. Their pronunciation isn't perfect and the paying parents want the "correct" pronunciation. However, I'm not really sure speaking flawless English is the actual end goal of teaching English in Korea. Passing toefl/toeic and getting into SKY seems the final end. Saying "fishee" won't damn you.
However, I imagine my situation is rare. I don't teach grammar or essay writing. Just speaking, which mostly means menacing them with an ocelot when they say "fishee". However, in other schools, foreigners and Koreans both teach grammar.
Now, lord knows maybe 10% of BA holders in North America could themselves pass a rudimentary grammar test. So, my point is when very capable Korean grammar teachers get paid 800,000 won a month and get no free apartment many, no doubt, get a little horked off by the waegook who comes in hung over, earns 2,000,000 won, gets a free apartment, and can't tell when to use "whose" and "who's".
And that's my point. |
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Hagwon Muppet
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:38 am Post subject: |
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But on the inverse, most foreigners here are qualified and competent in teaching and speaking English?  That's, really, the funniest and most ironic thing I have read here in a while.  |
misprounounced and often inacurate version of the language that many Koreans mistake for real "Inglishi" |
You mean American English? 
I'd say, at a guess, about 25% of 'Native Speakers' can't string together a grammatically correct sentence. They do have lovely white shiny faces though. |
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W.T.Carl
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| Working until the late hours is common for hogwons. The school I was at had us work until 9:30 on both days. We did it, but New Years Eve, we were allowed to take our evening classes out to dinner. It worked out nicely. |
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