Hot Potatoes

I am having a fun with Hot Potatoes program and actually it’s easier than I expected. However, in a light of Hot Potatoes assignment, the most important thing is how to build up useful website to do some reading on language learning tasks and get students motivated, rather than showing off technology skill. Thus, I need to read some book about CALL or Task based learning and so on..

It's been over one year.

It's been about more than one year since I came to Brisbane. I left my family behind and came here. Looking back on my life, it was the hardest thing to be away from people I love and care about. Over one year, my oldest sister opened a restaurant and my second oldest sister gave birth to a daughter. Actually, I didn’t realize until I came here that I made such a challenge and hard decision. The reason I chose to come here is that first of all, I wanted to speak English fluently and another thing is that I expected the feelings which I had during holiday in other countries. Finally, I made a decision very easily and quickly. However, I found many things that there are heaps of differences between studying overseas and travelling overseas. It would take page and page, so I won’t forgo it. If I knew that and considered many things, I wouldn’t have been here. Currently, I am happy with my loose decision. This is because I’ve learned a lot about how to lead my life and how important is the relationship with friends and family, although I'm still missing my family dearly.

I hope everyone is doing well and keeping healthy.

Don't call each other by their first name in Korea.

Koreans rarely call each other by their first name except for close friends and children.

-> It is common to call others by their first name in many other countries; by contrast, it is not common in Korea. Although students often do use first names among themselves and adults only use first names with those who are younger than them. At other times, Korean call people by their first name together with 씨(Mr./Ms.). This is very commonly used polite title among colleagues. To be more polite, Korean put one’s name and “teacher” together.

So.. if you want to call me in Korea.. call me "Park teacher" ^^* although it sounds formal.

Elluminate

Today, I had a special class with Norm, professor in Canada.
This online sychronous discussion with Dr Norm Vaughn at the University of Calgary was really useful to me and everything came to me so exciting.

Interesting thing from ED 14 studying.

Theseday, I am suffering from doing my first "Languae and Culture" assignmnet. However, I'm also having fun from new knowledge..
In terms of the nuit's focus on language and culture, my particular interest relates to the women's title..I read the book talked about the title for Korean marriaged women. It is said that the title, Samonim, was invented to call successful men's wives differently from ordinary marriage women when the capitalist industrialization was rapidly growing. Samonim has the literal meaning of mother of a teacher. In confucian culture, teaching was regarded as the most respectful job, so Samonim refferred to the most prestigious social status. They demonstrated that women did not have their own economic status and their economic status was dependent on their husbands' class position in the patrialrchal society. This word is still commonly usded.
Thus, for me to be called Samonim in Korea, I feel I have to marrage the man who belongs to a high class. SUCH A SEXIST TITLE.. When can we escape from male -dominated culture?

The difference between Korean-Egnlsih

(1) Koreans use “we” where “I” would be used in English.

(2) Koreans use strict verb forms according to who you are to speak to.

(3) Koreans hardly call their first name. If we call teachers’ name, it is regarded very rude and parents might be asked to come to school..Therefore, when I studied in EAP, my teahcer asked us to call her 'her name' , not 'teacher'. However I couldn't use her name to call her for a while..
In this point, I'm still thinking that it would be better to ask my student to call me "Mun-hee" or just "Teacher" as the way it is translated.

It's me