Learning Journal 10

[Kevin Kim]

Reflect on your experiences as a language teacher and learning in this latest speed-dating workshop. What difficulties did you encounter? How did you successfully relay concepts that were foreign to your classmates as your students? If you were eventually granted the opportunity to teach a full semester-long course on the target language, what strategies would you adopt?

My language culture presentation was about the modern history of Korea. This was a hard topic for even myself as well because Korea has a very complex history. It is not covered in American history classes either. This made the topic very foreign to the other students. To make the history less complex, I have decided to only cover only the major events and people from the year 1500 and on. If I had a whole semester, I would actually have the time to go in depth for the whole entire history of Korea. To teach this course, I would use various Korean historical dramas and movies which are very a very popular movie genre in Korea and is well translated into English.