KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
Eric Reynolds, Woosong University TESOL-MALL
Xiaofang Yan, Xiaofang
Becoming Academic Sojourners: Chinese MATESOL Students in South Korea
Abstract
The field of TESOL in the 21st century faces challenges with continuing increases in Chinese academic sojourners seeking master's in TESOL degrees. Twelve graduate students express their academic and cultural needs and offer suggestions for programmatic reform within master's programs: Enhancing cultural ability, incorporating creative extra-curricular language training, and building a strong, cooperative learner community.
Biographicals
Eric Reynolds has been a world traveler for EFL. He has lived and traveled all over the U.S. Unfortunately, his wanderlust was unsatisfied in America, so he became an EFL teacher, and lived and taught in "a bunch" of countries including Japan, Bulgaria, Tajikistan, and now Korea. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently works as the department head of the TESOL-MALL MA program at Woosong University.
Xiaofang Yan is a Ph.D. student at PaiChai University in Daejeon South Korea. Having previously completed a Master's of Arts degree in TESOL at Woosong University, she was the primary research and participant in this study. Becoming a TESOL researcher is one of her dreams, but it comes in a distant second to her dream of taking all that she has gained studying in Korea back home to China to help her compatriots reach their dreams through English Communication!
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