monthly plan

Finally, my troublesome spring semester is going away. Not to waste comming time, I decided to write down things to do on this blog.

• June: applying internship program, final-term, road trip to Jeju,
• July: (depending on the result of internship) working for 000(not decided yet), certificate(computer use)
• August: keep working, TOEFL
• September: keep working, TOEFL, Chinese character
• October: keep working, TOEFL, Chinese character
• November: (not decided yet)
• December: (not decided yet)

I think I'm going to work to make some money for next semester, and to save it for staying abroad.

(but I'm still not sure of anything)

TETE

During the discussion from one of my class we talked about TETE and our team supported positive position. While I was trying to protect our position I found a research about TETE.

영어로 진행하는 영어수업에 대한 초등교사의 태도, 김성연(한양대학교)

The study includes lots of rational for TETE.

Although the students have lack of skills and knowledge about English itself, they have almost intrinsic ability to predict and guess the meaningso the more classes they have, the higher level of comprehension they achieveand finally it could be helpful for English learning.

(이완기, 2000)

This is one citation.

Make the...

01 PURPOSE

I already set up my blog last semester (fall, 2007) on blogger.com and rarely used it before. In this semester Prof. Kim required me to do something new on my blog. This plan is totally intended to make my dead-like blog become whole new self-access learning portal. Through this job few things are expected at the end.

▪ It may replace already existing my own link portal (link).
▪ It may be used to help me study English regularly.
▪ I may learn a lot of brand-new computing techniques.
▪ I can be familiar with blogging itself.



02 ORGANIZATIONS

I only selected a few categories from provided items. – Although I didn’t make my mind to use all of them, it’s true I am still impressed with all that complex and interesting functions of bloger.com. Since the purpose of this changing is based on actual use of it, I put the top priority on the link and feed. And then, I came to find a looking-good graphic banner and finally I could steal it from anonymous as the result of trying to find some fabulous widgets. This widget indicates the weather and counts the number of visitors.
In terms of contents (posts), there are not such a many explanations. I post an article semi-regularly for the sake of Prof. Kim these days, completing the assignments (two weekly journals by Prof. Kim).



03 LISTS OF LINKS

DAILY	CLASS	DICTIONARY	SCHOOL
Cartoon Daganda baseball news weather on NAVER traffic info Congnamul	Teaching English Reading Computer & English Edu. Edu. Method & Tech PLLT Am&Br English Literature	BNC Just The World Phrase Finder Idiom Dictionary Word Spy	Home Schooling Central Library Total Information System Mini Web

04 PAGE LAYOUT

What type of learner am I?

Recently I take the course which is conducted to help students develop their autonomy and it's never difficult to say this course is quite useful. One of the most valuable experiences is that I came to know what type of learner I am. Of course to judge someone(or even myself) is not such a easy thing. That's why I can tell just one thing.

In terms of orientation, there are many of them; visual, audio, and kinesthetic and so on.
But I think one's learning orientation can be change easily depending on particular situation.
So I just wanna tell you I'm a lonely boy! What that means?

I usually do work by myself. Assignments, projects, presentations, and everything. I never enjoy working with any other people. I think even the outcome of any tasks is better when I do by myself than when doing with others.

Plan your days!

The topic of journal for this week is the plan of mine. Prof. Kim required us to explicit our 10-year-after career goal. To be honest, It's not easy question for me cause that question is the reason why I have beeen through these tough days. I just mention here two options.
1. to be a teacher?
2. to get another job.
The latter doesn't limit the range of variables while the former asks me to be a teacher.

10-year-study plan

I worked with this "plan" as part of an assignment and the final outcome of course came out !
But as you know, it's written in Korean. :)
So I just posted summary of that. In the "macroplan" part which is the 10-year-after goal, I set up 3 goals.
1. Bookworm
2. Be stylish!
3. Do actively!

study goal of this year

Since I'm not so greedy person I've set just two plans for this year.
1. getting "computer utilizing ability" certificate
2. studying English harder.

that's so simple huh? ;)

teacher's pronunciation?

Thesedays many midleschool or highschool students think their English teacher's pronunciation should be perfect and even judge their language ability just by their accent.
When it comes to my position, I am also trying to have "native-like" accent as far as I can.
But here's the thing. As English become more internationalized, we should accept the variety of it.
English is no longer English-speaking countries' own.
There are thousand of millions of people who use English as many purpose as their numbers.
Austrailian English is English. Singaporean English is also Englsih and so forth...
Can you just devaluate the quality of English teacher who has Korean accent?
Never do such a ridiculous misjudgement!

kaleidoscope

Personality
"I like to observethe patterns and structures in language"
- You are a reflector who likes to notice and think about things for yourself before acting. You probably learn best by analysing the language, and you set yourself very high standards. This is good, but don’t worry too much about being completely perfect or you’ll never open your mouth. Relax a little and focus on communication.

Motivation
"I've never been a good language learner"
- You are not motivated to learn because of your beliefs about yourself as a learner. Where do these beliefs come from? Could it be that you have depended too much on external judgments of your skills? Or that in a different learning context you might be more successful? Try to look at your beliefs and understand where they come from. A fresh start or a new way of learning might have altogether different results.

INFJ? or INTJ?

I already took a test of MBTI one year ago. At that time, the result was INTJ.
After a year, it is changed to INFJ.

See below addresses:
INFJ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INFJ
INTJ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ

MBTI result

Your Type is INFJ

Strength of the preferences %

Introverted 11
Intuitive 50
Feeling 38
Judging 48

INFJ type description by D.Keirsey
INFJ Career Choices by Jung Career Indicator?
INFJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
slightly expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
moderately expressed judging personality

teacher-wannabe?

To be an English teacher is never easy for non-native speaker, especially me who is not good at English. So I still cannot sure wheter teaching is my true calling. It may or may not.
Anyway, If I should be a teacher, I would try to be a good model to my students.
I really want to show the other people that it's possible to have near-native English competence even in Korea.

qualifications to be an English teacher in Korea

though professor just asked us five or more items, I added one more condition; "Korea".
I've thought that ESL or EFL condition should be considered with more concern....
What is more, among these particular conditions, Korea has unusual... education context.

1. passion
2. understanding of this particular situation(i.e., everyone in Korea seems to be mad at English lol)
3. of course, English skills
4. sense of morality
5.