Learner Profile
- Nationality: Korea
- Age: 14 (1st graders)
- Proficiency level: Novice-high
- Number of students: 30 (15 boys, 15 girls)
3) Teacher: Non-native English-speaker
4) Language use in class: The teacher mainly speaks in English. In case of being asked for explanation, the teacher uses Korean.
5) Class: A regular English class
- Date: December 6th, 2011
- Hour: 45 mins.
“There are many more speakers of World Englishes and people who use English for international communication than there are native speakers of it.”
“The present international status of English is rightly justified on the basis of the numerical strength of its non-native speakers; the cross-cultural and localized functional range of the language has developed in various domains.”
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teachers' perceived difficulties in adopting CLT reveals that the difficulties have their source in the differences between the underlying educational theories of South Korea and those of Western countries.”(667) The solution to this matter, for Korea, was to invite native English speaking people as teachers in schools of South Korea. Kim Chang Ho states in an article that the best way to learn
1. Introduction
Feedback is an important element in second language acquisition (SLA). If non-native speakers (NNS) are not given proper feedback by native speakers (NS), they cannot substantially acquire L2. That is, SLA will not be completed without feedback. L2 learners may be able to acquire the grammatical aspects of L2 on their own by learning through books, but it is challenging to teach