Exam is over...

The final exam is over, and the summer vacation starts.
I can't help saying that time really flies.
There are so many things to do: Travel to Japan, Cycling...
I would like to spend this long time efficiently.

Analyzing June's exam made by KICE

On June 10th, there was a big examination for 12th graders. It is a very important exam to students who will take the KSAT this year, because KICE(Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation), which is the institute that makes questions of the KSAT, makes problems of this exam. Since the question setting institute is identical, the June's exam is quite similar to the KSAT.

The result? The questions were too easy to solve, so there is a high-scorer inflation. Grade 1 cut(so-called 등급컷) is too high. Usually it was about 80 point in math, but this exam's is 94. When it comes to English, the difficulty of questions was high. There were 7 'blank questions', which makes students crazy.(usually there were 5, but in the last year there were 6 so KICE was blamed to do so)But the grade 1 cut is 94, which is an average one. It means that the abilities of students progressed than those of last year. Speaking about Korean, even though I didn't see the questions, I think that the difficulty was as usual. After the exam, I will solve the questions of Korean, English, and the SFL(Second Foreign Language), and will post more detail.

This is a column about the result of June's exam
http://www.ebsi.co.kr/ebs/ent/enta/retrieveExptEntClmVw.ebs?q_bbs_cd=B040&q_dat_no=130512

Final exams...

From Tuesday to the next Monday, We freshmen take the exam. Even though there are so many distractions, I'll try my best to get better marks!!

Taru-Remember

EBS Space 공감

Yozoh

Youtube ver. of my digital storytelling video

My digital storytelling video

Yozoh, Taru, Han Hee-Jeong: Medley 2

This video is from 'Yoon Do-hyun's Love Letter'. These three singers are singers of Pastel Music.

Do you know what DK is?

These days, my Nateon nickname is 'DK is difficult....' DK is quite ambiguous. But what I mean is "Dakchigo Kongbuhaja", ed ist "Shut up and study."
I'll introduce you how this is came out. I was talking at late night with my best friend, Seo Dong-min. He is a freshman of department of mathematics education, Korea University. The subject of story was his being lethargic. The reason was playing too much. He enjoyed his playing with his friends very much, but few days before a thought flashed across his mind: what the hack I am doing? Was I born to just play?
So he decided to study as he did in 12th grade. I, also failed to do something again and again(you know what it is), thought like this: What on earth I am doing now like a crazy guy? Therefore, we determined to study hard and get a very, very good grade from this week. But it's fairly tough...but I'll try my best!

summary of applying program into public schools

For:
equal opportunity of language education to everyone
more friendly/comfortable
critical period
more chance to use English
more exposure to English

Against:
Korean language and culture-identity problem
low achievement of subject knowledge due to inefficiency of using English
Teacher issue(ability to use English fluently)
More serious private education
Changed goal from knowledge to English


My opinion: against
immersion program will cause another private education
in class students are to use only english
but students who have no good english skill will feel inferor to that
so they go to institute to get better english skill
it will occur another private education, and furthermore,
there are students who can't take private education because of financial barrier
so equal opportunity of language education to everyone might not come true.

Taru-Daydream

This video only provides songs but no MV...
Anyway, I like this song because of its lyrics.
These are the lyrics:

Taru-daydream

무얼 할지 모르겠어 지금 난
계속 꿈만 꾸고 있는 것 같아

모든 게 제자리에 있는 것 같은데
짓누르는 허전함은 끝없어

대단하진 않아도 매일
새로운 걸 사고
나를 기다리는 친구들
즐거운 나날들

웬일인지 죽을 만큼 외로움 느껴
웬일인지 내 이름을 잊어가는걸

난 사랑 받고 있는데
뭐든 내게 있는데
알 수 없어

무얼 할지 모르겠어 지금 난
계속 꿈만 꾸고 있는 것 같아

모두의 기대대로 이뤄지는데
짓누르는 허전함은 끝없어

설명하기 힘든 이 시간
책을 읽어도
많은 사람들이 많은걸
알아가는 만큼

웬일인지 죽을 만큼 외로움 느껴
웬일인지 내 이름을 잊어가는걸

난 사랑 받고 있는데
뭐든 내게 있는데
알 수 없어

어디선가 울고 있을 사람들
그보다는 여기 내가 낫겠지

행복하다 감사하다 타일러
그래 난 점점 더 행복해질 거야

설명하기 힘든 이 시간
TV를 봐도
많은 사람들이 많은걸
알아가는 만큼

웬일인지 죽을 만큼 외로움 느껴
웬일인지 내 이름을 잊어가는걸
웬일인지 계속 무뎌지는 날 느껴
웬일인지 내 꿈에서 멀어지는 날

난 사랑 받고 있는데
뭐든 내게 있는데
알 수 없어
갇혀있어

Taru-Night Flying

This song makes me feel flying in the night sky. I listen to this when I feel gloomy to feel better.

Han Hee-jeong - the day we met first

Han Hee-jeong, one of so-called 'godesses of Hongdae', has a baby face. And her voice is clear!

Taru-Kiss Kiss

This is one of my cyworld minihompy BGM. I love it.

These days...

The reason that I can't reach out my hands is because I have already failed. It might be because even though I want to be nice, I'm afraid that he/she might be uncomfortable due to this. No, it is. The result of being kind to someone was an awkward and uncomfortable relationship. Today I tried to reach out my hands to her but I didn't, because I'm afraid of becoming estranged each other. It seems that I lost confidence.

These days I often think like this: Is he/she having a hard time like me? No, I'm not having a hard time anymore. But I can't help thinking the fact that I went way that I shoudn't have gone, so I bear him/her in my heart and pray for him/her. Though I resolved that I would never, never care about one's mind...I know the fact that there is no result of caring someone and the one who gets hurt is me, but I do it again and again. I think it's an innate nature.

His/her face looked tired and exhausted. I felt that online, but meeting offline, she did look tired. I'd like to embrace her. But I can't. Because I've already lost confidence.

Cyworld!

I love doing cyworld. It's a part of my routine. Doing cyworld, I can communicate with my acquaintances, post diaries, photos, and videos. But it's not international, so I'm not able to share my materials with people arould the world.
Comparing Naver blog and Cyworld, Naver blog provide only posting function, and people can link videos or photos by posing. In comparison, Cyworld provide menu, so people can upload photos to photo menu, diaries to diary menu, etc.

I visited website of Chirstine Bauer-Ramazani.
http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/
She is a professor of Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. She teaches undergradute students and graduate students in international communicaion, foundations of business administration, computer-assisted language learning, etc. She made her website quite well:)

developing my SALB

I love blogging. I am using cyworld diary, daum tistory blog, and this blogspot blog. Especially I am interested in showing my routine and recent days. Or, I post something that is quite abstract^^;;
The barriers I perceive is managing couple of blog. As I said I'm blogging three blogs, so I sometimes post same postings on them.

The purpose that I SALB is to learn myself. In my case, after blogging and few weeks or months later, I can guess my feelings in those days.
The subcategories are
Breaking News: CBS News
Recent OneLook Words of the Day
Weather Forecast
Dictionaries that include Cambridge, Naver English Dictionary, Wikipedia, Onelook
Tengentoppa GurennLagann(which is name of anime that I like)
I will use this blog as my self-reflection blog. After a while, I can see my circumstances that I had in the past.

TETE and NES/NNES

TETE: teaching English through English



My opinion-against TETE

1. The abilities of students differ
2. Not all teachers are qualified to perform TETE class
3. If TETE is performed in science or history class, there are too many professional terms, so the class will be unefficient.

But I don't want to say that TETE is totally wrong:
What I want to maintain is using TETE properly.


NES vs NNES

NES
are far better at English speaking, especially practical English usage than NNES
NNES
can explain English to students better than NES
are good at grammar or R/C, so when teaching KSAT, NNES are efficient teachers
there are many qualified NNES teachers whose abilities are similar to those of NES

Gloomy...:-(

It's very gloomy for me to know the fact that I can't possess something that someone has already done. Well, I'm quite gloomy in these days for some reasons. One happened on Saturday and the other took place on Tuesday. What I could do is just looking at them without doing anything, and resiging.


Who could know that I'm crying with my face buried in my pillow?

Mid-term is almost over!!

I took 6 exams from Tuesday to Thursday, and there is only 1 exam on Monday!!
I was so tired that I couldn't open my eyes...

Unbelievable...

Tomorrow is the mid-term;;;;;;
I did, honestly, nothing to prepare the exam.
Anyway it's alredy April, and it'll be May, June, and the summer vacation(I have butterfiles in my stomach!!! I dunno what to do!!). Time reeeeeeeeally flies, I think.

Today I applied to JLPT(Japanese Language Proficiency Test) lv.2(lv.1 is the highest rank). I've got to study in summer vacation, but I love it:-) My friends will say that I'm out of my mind, but I don' care!

Recently I went to Posung middle school nearby my home to teach middle schoolers whose English skills are not good. I met 2 out of 3(One student fleed^^;;;;;;), and their skill was fairly......bad. They even don't know the fact that 'am' comes after I, and 'are' comes after 'you' and 'we'! Gosh, what on earth did they learn in the elementary school?! Well, anyway, they are here with me to learn English. I have responsibility to make them a good English speaker(at least to introduce themselves; they don't know how to do). I'll do my best. Unfortunately, I sent my Fridays to heaven because of them. No playing on Fridays, Rob!OTL

I have tons of my chit-chats to type, but t'is to late. I've gotta go:-(

Planning my years?

One of my career goal is being an English teacher. To be an English teacher, I have to pass the teacher's exam. It's hard to get through it, I should study hard to prepare the exam.
Another one is majoring Korean Education. I would like to do double major English and Korean education.
The last one is getting a master's degree or, furthermore, being an Ed.D. To teach well, I have to learn more, so if I had an opportunity, I will be a master in English education.

This year, in 2010, I will work hard to get good grades. Getting good grades is important to pass the exam, because what we study is related to it.
I If I don't enter the army during my university life, in 2013, I will prepare the teacher's exam. It would be like my 고3 life^^;;
In 2018, if I were a teacher, I would go to the graduate school of education and would be studying hard to get a master's degree.

Terrible Cold...

Since Tuesday I've got a terrible cold. I have a sore throat, and cough a lot. Even though I have neither fever nor headache, I'm having a hard time because of the cough. My throat is killing me... Heeeeeeeelp....

My 10 year's plan

<나의 10년 계획>

● 10년 후 내가 하고 싶은 일은?
▶중등학교 영어선생님이 되어서 아이들을 가르치는 것

● 그것을 이루기 위해 대학 재학 중 필요한 것
▶ 임용고시 합격(최우선순위)
▶ 학점 관리 잘 해놓기
▶ 토익 950 이상 맞기, 토플 80 이상 맞기
▶ 다른 외국어 공부 해놓기
▶ 교육 봉사활동 꾸준히 하기
▶ 여행으로 많은 경험 쌓기


2010년
1학년. 봉사활동 열심히 하기, 과외 해보기, 돈 벌어서 여행가기, 기타 실력 중급 이상으로 늘리기, 교육 봉사활동 하기, ROTC 합격하기
2011년
2학년. 학점 관리에 좀 더 신경쓰기, 토익 950점 넘기기, 토플 80점 이상 만들기, 교육 봉사활동 꾸준히 하기
2012년
3학년. ROTC 훈련 잘 받기,
2013년
4학년. ROTC 훈련 잘 받기, 1년간 열심히 준비해서 임용고시 필히 합격하기
2014년
육군 소위로 임관.
2015년
육군 중위로 진급. 자기 시간이 많아지므로 독서 등 자기수양 하기
2016년
육군 중위로 제대, 2학기부터 고등학교 발령
2017년
고등학교 영어교사 하면서 교육대학원 준비하기
2018년
고등학교 영어교사. 교육대학원 다니기
2019년
고등학교 영어교사. 교육대학원 다니기
2020년
고등학교 영어교사. 교육대학원 졸업, 석사학위 취득.

My lovely sister

My sister, whose name is Soo-min, is 18 years old in Korean age, which means she is 2 years younger than me. As I said, I get along with my sister well. We rarely fight. Of course in our childhood, we fought every day. But growing, we became good friends. We tell our troubles each other. I would like to be a good brother forever:-)

What is my goal?

My study goal for this year is getting a scholarship. Of course I know it's verrrrrry hard to win a scholarship. I have to do all the assignments and to get a good mark in the mid-term and the final exam. But I'll do my best:-)
Most of my subject is related to English, so English is a part of my goal. I'm planning to utilize short breaks that I have.

My dream is being a great teacher. Since my major is English Education, I would like to be an English teacher. That is a big dream of my life. So I hope to teach in public high school 10 years later, sowing dreams to my students:-)

Level 2?!

I took a physical exam for conscription today morning. I got up early; 5:30 am. The exam site is in Singil-dong, so it takes a lot to go there. The exam started at 8:00 am. We took many tests; psychological test, blood pressure test, X-ray...it was a tiring thing.
I got level 2, which means I am fairly healthy and have to serve in the military. It's my duty, of course, but I feel gloomy that I have to be seperated from my acquaintances :-(

My storytelling!

Hello guys! As you know, my name is Park Soo-ho. I am 20 years old. Can you believe it? I can't believe this too! Well, anyway, I was born in 1991 in Seoul. I have been living in Seoul for the most of my life. I have never lived in foreign country, so I would like to do if I had an opportunity.
We are a family of 5; father, mother, a younger sister and me. I get along with my sister well. So my friends say that it is weird, because they usually argue with their siblings. But to me it's very natural.
Talking about my personality, my MBTI test result was INFJ. It means that I am 11% introverted, 12% intuitive, 25% feeling and 56% judging. But the result was too simple, so I 'googled' INFJ type. Then there was a Korean site which was talking about my type, and what it says mostly coincides with my character.
When it comes to my learning style, I like to learn language by just listening, noticing new things and using them. According to the result, I learn best when I was exposed to real language. It's true, and I love to.
How I have learned English? Well, I have lots of thing to say, but I'll say some of them. I did dictation for years to improve listening skill. It really works so I recommend this method to my acquaintances. When it comes to reading, I read tons of paragraph to enhance reading skill. I think we have to be used to English to read it fast and exactly.
I like to teach something to others, so I chose to be a teacher when I was in middle school. Especially I liked Korean and English in high school, so I chose Department of English Education in Chung-Ang University. My vision is being a great English teacher. I want to sow dream to students to make them as a brilliant people. I'll do my best to make my dreams come true!

Do the big rocks first!

Yesterday...

I did fast yesterday because this week is Easter week, so I was starving. I went to do teaching volunteer yesterday and taught Korean and English. Teaching them, I try to do my best. I was a high schooler last year, so I can understand them so much.

The biggest event of yesterday was about Sun-young, who is my friend in my department. Her friend went to the heaven, so she cried and cried. Her friend who passed away was Sun-young's best friend, and she have got along with her for 12 years, therefore she couldn't control her feeling. I went with her to her home, and she cried all the time with me. I can understand her feeling because of my experience that my friend had died due to heart failure when I was in 11th grade. I was so sad.

Was a gloomy day.

This week's topic

I'd love to participate in all 4 parts of the language areas, but especially I would like to work in listening and speaking area. I think I am better at listening and speaking rather than reading or writing, so I want to specialize them.
I think that English teachers should have good pronunciation. What I mean is not as good as native speakers, just pronouncing 'correctly'. I've heard of 'Konglish' pronunciation in the past. It was too bad to understand. Moreover students taught by him/her will learn bad pronunciation. Therefore I think English teachers have to pronounce well.

What type of learner am I?

I chose some learning types at the site Kaleidoscope, so I post my learning types here.

What I chose was this:
I like to learn language
by just listening, noticing new things and using them

And my type is:
You are an auditory and pragmatic type of learner who prefers to learn inductively, ie, you move from particulars to generalities. You learn best by getting lots of exposure to the real language whether in the classroom or on TV or while you are traveling.

I also chose:
I like to observe the patterns and structures in language.

Then the answer says:
You are a reflector who likes to notice and think about things for yourself before acting. You probably learn best by analysing the language, and you set yourself very high standards. This is good, but don’t worry too much about being completely perfect or you’ll never open your mouth. Relax a little and focus on communication.

Well, the result was quite interesting. They gave me some solutions to problems that I have, and described my learning style exactly. It is very helpful:)

Teaching Volunteer-first class!

I do teaching volunteer in my church. I teach ethic study to a 12th-grade boy, and will teach English to a 12th-grade girl. Today it was my first class, even though I started it from the first week of March, because I hadn't taught actually. I am supposed to teach Korean, English, and some social studies. But NO ONE asked me to teach him/her. In contrast, my friends who teaches math was busy to help them. I was little bit depressed because I'm poor at math:-( I envy them.
The first class was quite short, since I was late for class(even I am a teacher) due to 전학대회. I taught him ethic study for about an hour. Ethic study is tough to learn(I did so too when I was a high schooler), so he had a hard time to understand what I say.
Anyway it's very interesting to teach^^ I'm looking forward to teaching on every tuesdays:-)

A Comment about My MBTI Test Result...

I think that I have already taken the MBTI test when I was in high school, but I forgot the test result^^;;
My MBIT type is INFJ. That means, 11% of introverted, 12% of intuitive, 25% of feeling and 56% of judging.
The test result says that I am slightly introvert, and have slightly expressed intuitive personality, moderately expressed feeling personality and moderately expressed judging personality.
I was surprised to see the result because the personality that was described was like mine. But the result was too simple, so I 'googled' INFJ type. Then there was a Korean site which was talking about my type. It is http://careernote.co.kr/182.
I accessed it and read the posting. While reading, I chuckled several times since it was very interesting to see that the result totally coincides with my character.
Some of the result says that I have a great creativity and insights, and also have a firm faith and clear principles, and devote myself to the benefits of community. I wonder I have a great creativity*^^*;; But I agree with the comment that I dedicate myself to community:-)
It was very exciting to read the test result, even though it was quite boring to take the test:-( I would like to take another test someday!

MBTI test result

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes3.asp

Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 12 25 56


INFJ type description by D.Keirsey
INFJ Identify Your Career with Jung Career Indicator? INFJ Famous Personalities
INFJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss




Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
slightly expressed introvert

slightly expressed intuitive personality

moderately expressed feeling personality

moderately expressed judging personality


And there is a site about my type:
http://careernote.co.kr/182

What type of English teacher do I want to be?

In my high school, there was an English teacher who is very considerate. He is one of the most skillful teacher in the school, and is being respected by their students. The reason was not only for his great teaching skills but also his concerns about his students. He has a great common sense and also has skills to teach. He makes students always laugh, which makes them concentrate on the class. Moreover, he consults with every student of his classes. He knows most of the student's characteristics and advantages. That made him possible plan their career.
I was deeply impreesed by him, and decided to have him be my role-model.
So I'm trying to be more considerate towards my friends, and my students who are taught by me(I'm doing a teaching volunteer in my church). I am also studying English harder to be skillful and be an expert in my field. That will make my ideal dream come true earlier.

First Posting!

I have just made this blog. Even though it is for assignments, I will love this blog and post often :-)