introduced in 2004, is managed by the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Examination.
The test is usually offered on the third Thursday of November.
And it is made up of five subjects
:Korean language with listening,
:mathematics,
:foreignlanguage (English),
:social studies/science/vocational training (students choose one of these three subjects) :and a secondforeignlanguage.
English Education Environment
Public Education
Since 1997: Middle schoo1 junior → Elementary school 3rd grade
Private Education
Language Study Abroad
The aims of English Village in Korea :
not EFL(English as a ForeignLanguage),
but ESL(English as a SecondLanguage)
1> expose more to daily English, cultivate English skills, arouse confidence, and motivation to study Eng
as cognitive style. When cognitive styles are specifically related an educational context, where affective and physiological factors are intermingled, they are usually more generally referred to as learning styles. Studies of learning style bring important variables to the forefront. Such styles can contribute significantly to the construction of a unified theory of secondlanguage acquisition.
language a convenient access to the world and this is one of the reasons why the government has put a great emphasis in English education. Developments in this area have been abundant and among them we can mention the establishment of the so-called “English Villages”, which shall be analyzed in this paper.
First, the concept and purposes of the English Villages will be introduced. Second, we
foreigner teacher can help the students to improve their speaking ability by using it.
It helps children whose parents are hearing-impaired persons or speech-impediment persons or visual-impairment persons to pronounce rightly.
③ Students can study Languages with songs by using this material.
④ Students can study Language Speaking by themselves. : It causes reduction of private education e