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The Japanese schools won't hire over the phone, but the Koreans will. Sorry if that wasn't clear.I am confused over these contradictory statements...
Gee, thanks! I'm not scared s--tless now.Good luck in Korea. More xenophobia, many more unscrupulous managers in the larger cities, and despite the advantage of free rent, you will face the fact that losing your job means losing your visa, unlike in Japan. Truly, good luck!
I'm pretty much working in Busan so I can use it as a springboard to get into Japan. That's all. It costs a lot less to fly to Osaka or Tokyo from Busan, S. Korea, for interviews than from Philadelphia, PA. I know its a risk, but I have a number of friends over there who are doing okay. We'll see.
This is going to sound nuts. 3 years exp. in TESOL/TEFL as a tutor (i.e. one-on-one teacher sometimes, glorified language partner other times) at an ESL institute. I'm familiar with all of the teaching manuals and materials there. My MA is in History (I'm particularly interested in comparative history), and I want to do research on Muromachi Japan in particular.With 3 years of experience (in what, exactly?) and almost an MA (in what field?),
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This stuff is useful if you want to learn to read a language. I can read French and Latin pretty well because of this. But I absolutely cannot speak or understand them verbally. I learned Japanese mostly through verbal communication, so my reading/writing is sketchy. What is needed is balance, really, between spoken and written language instruction. It seems to me that the Japanese are teaching students how to read English, but not communicate verbally.JimmySeal said:This "dead frog teaching method" (to borrow the words of Richard Graham) is, in my opinion, the very reason that English performance is so poor among Japanese students.