Linking the World Through Language and Technology: a Study of Pivotal Web-Based Quality English Teaching for Korean Students
This is where technology steps in. Online classes have become a trend due to its new way of exposing diverse teaching techniques as well as revealing a new cultural experience via the internet.
A large number of colleges and universities around the Korea are shifting traditional face-to-face classes into fully online, merged, or web-facilitated courses. This is partly due to the need of top-caliber academic demands needed to maintain a competitive edge in making classes more reachable to a growing and diverse student population. Additionally, online English teaching offers new and exciting opportunities in expanding learning growth and experience especially for Korean students. In a recent undergraduate study, students preferred online courses to the traditional classroom saying that they learned more in these classes, spent more time in on these classes, and found these classes to be more difficult yet of higher quality than traditional classes.
With an increased demand for online learning as well as the need for proper English education, this study opens for the diverse educational opportunities, collecting the possibilities of teaching English in a different way, connecting the world little-by-little through the use of technology in acquiring English education.
Korea is down on the list when it comes to English education, and with that, through the convenience of distant learning, this may help them in gearing up as an individual to be globally competitive in terms of using English language, as the standard of all languages in global market. This is a sad fact that everyone knows about, but, this doesn’t mean that this problem cannot be overcome. Through, online English teaching, these impediments can be broken down, promoting a learning environment where a diverse range of pedagogical practices are often characterized by active learning student-centered pedagogical techniques.
In Korea, their English education system is taken very seriously. Because of
A large number of colleges and universities around the Korea are shifting traditional face-to-face classes into fully online, merged, or web-facilitated courses. This is partly due to the need of top-caliber academic demands needed to maintain a competitive edge in making classes more reachable to a growing and diverse student population. Additionally, online English teaching offers new and exciting opportunities in expanding learning growth and experience especially for Korean students. In a recent undergraduate study, students preferred online courses to the traditional classroom saying that they learned more in these classes, spent more time in on these classes, and found these classes to be more difficult yet of higher quality than traditional classes.
With an increased demand for online learning as well as the need for proper English education, this study opens for the diverse educational opportunities, collecting the possibilities of teaching English in a different way, connecting the world little-by-little through the use of technology in acquiring English education.
Korea is down on the list when it comes to English education, and with that, through the convenience of distant learning, this may help them in gearing up as an individual to be globally competitive in terms of using English language, as the standard of all languages in global market. This is a sad fact that everyone knows about, but, this doesn’t mean that this problem cannot be overcome. Through, online English teaching, these impediments can be broken down, promoting a learning environment where a diverse range of pedagogical practices are often characterized by active learning student-centered pedagogical techniques.
In Korea, their English education system is taken very seriously. Because of