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International Conference 2018
Featured Session
Field Manual on Building Up Reading Fluency in English
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In EFL situations like that of Korea, where most people don’t need to speak English in their everyday lives, the focus on fluency in English matters only on standardized tests. Moreover, almost all standardized English tests in Korea concentrate on assessing reading comprehension, even though they include some listening, and indirect speaking and writing questions. That’s why, while learners of English ideally need fluency in the so-called four skills, they spend most of their learning time building up reading skills. I have been teaching English focusing on this objective. My teaching experiences have suggested that the interactive approach (from bottom-up to top-down based on learners’ fluency level) provides the best way to teach English learners in Korea. My methodology is a spiral teaching model from corpus to sentence, through the paragraph, to the whole passage. This presentation will show how to boost fluency in reading comprehension for EFL learners in a real-world situation rather than in a theoretical way.
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Biographical Sketch
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Ki Hun KIM (김기훈) has been recognized as one of the best English teachers in Korea for more than a decade. He has been teaching English for over 25 years at numerous private schools (hagwon) and has been chief English teacher at Megastudy (the largest on-line college prep school in Korea) since 2005. His expertise is in building up English reading skills, especially for standardized tests such as CSAT, TOEFL, TOEIC, and TEPS. He founded CEDU publishing company, which specializes in ELT, and has been its CEO and a leading author, publishing over 100 books since 2004. His signature ELT book, 1001 sentences (Cheonil-moon) has been a best-seller for over a decade (over 3 million copies sold). He was a consultant on English education for the Seoul Office of Education (2009–11). He has been featured in major English media, including Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS Evening News. He earned his BA in German and English language and literature from Sungkyunkwan University.
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Ki Hun Kim (김기훈) Resources on the Web
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Video/News Article: S. Korean Teacher (CBS Evening News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-korean-teacher-earns-4m-a-year-but-is...
News Article: Kim Ki-hoon ㅡ South Korea's Cram School King (The Diplomat)
https://thediplomat.com/2013/08/kim-ki-hoon-south-koreas-cram-school-king
