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Snowmeow
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 Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: English Fatigue Syndrome and "Teacher Hit Me" |
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200606/200606220020.html
After reading this article about children who are starting to reject english for various reasons, I wonder how many of them do lie and say "teacher hit me!" This excuse is mentioned in the article. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe this is due to the fact that English school is in addition to regular school and comes after regular school hours. Those hours are just too long for children, especially young ones. I'd hate whatever additional academics I was forced to study after school, too. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| This article is retarded in so many ways, I don't even have the energy to start listing them. What passes for journalism in the English language papers here astounds me.... |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| The director of Shin's Child and Adolescent Counseling Center, Shin Chul-hee, offers an analysis, �The common denominator causing these symptoms is forced study, and excessive private study,� adding,�Children who attend schools that focus on workbooks rather than learning through play and give too much homework show the highest levels of rejection.� |
I wish that Shin Chul-hee would speak to the last director I worked under.
Whenever I offered to play a game, sing a song, or use any manipulative items, that director would contend that I was "just killing time." Her method, rather, was to repeat the same page in the textbook until the students could recite the page from memory.
Not only is such "forced study" unpleasant, it is unrealistic. It creates a notion of a two-dimensional plane of existence. If you asked most Koreans how they perceive of an English-speaking country, they would probably say that we never do anything but sit around and speak English. When we come here, then, we have nothing intelligent to talk about. Consequently, any Korean who meets any of us is forced to ask inane questions like "Do you like kimchi?"
On the contrary, we speak English while doing many other things. So, then, should an English student. Only then will English start to make sense to the student. Only then will the student see English instruction as anything other than a torturing device. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
On the contrary, we speak English while doing many other things. So, then, should an English student. Only then will English start to make sense to the student. Only then will the student see English instruction as anything other than a torturing device. |
I agree completely
Even with grown ups i constantly use situational conversations to make "sense" to the words.
"Drilling", as i call it, is usefull, sometimes, or should i say "rarely"  . |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps this thread should be merged with Captain Corea's. |
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