moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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 Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:47 am Post subject: when was english spoken at YOUR summer camp? |
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ok, here goes - after putting a few camps under my belt, i'm really sick of hearing how the students will be "speaking only english" when that just never happens - at least in my experience it doesn't.
since there are so many camps across korea, am wondering if there has been a camp where english was actually spoken most of the time?
and did the k co-teachers cooperate by speaking in english to the students?  no i'm not kidding
let's hear what you all experienced
moosehead
**can't seem to edit the poll question so please read it as the topic above - "WHEN was english spoken at your summer camp?**
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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I'm crushingly bored this week, so I shall address each of your poll options, because many of them require a check and one can only check one.
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| in the classroom we spoke english |
Of course. Only English in the classroom, but.....
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| it's the only language the foreign teachers used |
I always use the very occasional word of Korean, but others probably don't and if they're happy with that, great.
But in my experience of observing other teachers, a word or two of Korean here and there is superior to a dude speaking to Korean kids as though he was speaking to a bunch of Canadians in Three Alleys.
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| ceremonies were in english (no seriously!) |
Yes, but District Superintendents spoke Korean (at length) at the opening ceremonies.
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| english was spoken at meal times |
This quickly disappears. It's not enforceable.
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| students initiated english conversation on their own to foreign teachers |
Confident ones, yes. Mostly, I'd guess no.
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| k coteachers spoke in english a majority of the time |
Yes, they have to, but with young women, boys will address them as 누나 and try to speak in Korean.
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| english was spoken during extracurricular activities |
Yeah, but it's impossible to enforce constant English-use IMO. |
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