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Figure 1.
Rank of the Quality of English education in Korea.
to properly learn English speaking and writing skills through the public schools and the
private institutes. Instead, the 30 Korean students mentioned that they were forced by
their English teachers to intensively study English reading, grammar, and vocabulary
skills through English education in Korea. One of 30 Korean students, Dorothy, stated:
Actually, I studied a little bit of English speaking through my high school and
college, and I thought that I could speak English with American students.
However, at the beginning of semester, it was very difficult for me to
communicate with my American friends because of the lack of English speaking
skills and the different English word choices than what I used to learn English in
Korea. One time my friend said to me, ‘I am getting married,’ and I replied back
to her, ‘Are you expecting?’ Then, my American friend said to me, ‘What did you
say to me? Did you say expecting? I am not pregnant.’ During this conversation,
I was so confused because I did not know the practical meaning of ‘expecting.’ I
only knew about the dictionary meaning of ‘expecting.’ After my friend
explained about the actual meaning of ‘expecting,’ I fully understood that
meaning. Because of this kind of experience, I frequently thought that my
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