To combat the tendency of students to become dependent on material, teachers, or mechanical methods. At the heart of David English House are the elementary school classes and the Finding Out series, developed by David English House and published by Heineman. Those problems include the difficulties imposed by a different writing system, problems of pronunciation, and the tendency for students to become passive learners, The student-centered approach encourages students to discover or find out the language for themselves through games, pairwork, and activities instead of relying on drilling and rote memorization common in most Asian schools. Sung Rae Cho, a former high school teacher with over ten years of teaching experience in the Korean school system. Throughout the past year, David English House has offered free trial classes to extend the availability of English education to students of more modest backgrounds.
Korean society tends to classify schools in either one of two categories or boxes.
Since we fit in neither of these two boxes, it is easier to tell you what we aren't. Conversation schools satisfy this need. If possible, the teachers should all be young, fair-haired, blue or green eyed, and Caucasian. However, there aren't so many applicants around who fit all of these requirements, so anybody is all right as long as they speak English. These schools are popular among young office workers, housewives, girls who want to go to Disneyland, and their parents who want them to be more international.