Educators Urge Professionalism in English Teaching
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English educators have stressed the need for professional qualifications in the “art” of English teaching if teachers are to help students learn the language in an effective way.
They said the presidential transition team’s plan to hire skill-based teachers disregards the rule that there is an art to teaching.
A fluent language skill is not enough for educators as English teaching is much more than supplying information, they said.
Edith Allen, an instructor in the English for International Students Program at Duke University, told The Korea Times that teaching English requires not only fluency, but also a broad range of interdisciplinary knowledge and training in linguistics, education and speech pathology.
Therefore, it is naive to say, “ if they speak English, they can teach it,” she said.
Allen pointed out that there certainly is an art to teaching that helps students learn the foreign language in an effective way.
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