Each class is separated. In the tool-getting phase, learners touch onto the lesson topic and practice grammar and vocabulary. Practice is sharply focused in cued dialogue build-ups. In the tool-using phase, learners immediately put their new tools to communicative use in class to accomplish a given task by exchanging information in Korean. After the activity, the whole class discusses various solutions to the assigned problem.
Learners thus gain competence while analyzing their progress in purposeful communication.
We take the learner step by step into the center of a communicative objective, compelling immediate use of the new language tools learned just moments before. . Our Listening and Discussion classes are task-based, focusing on active searching for information in the listening material. The role of the teacher is not to inform the learners about the material nor to explain it, but rather to guide them in a search for meaning through dialogue with each other. Our Reading and Discussion classes also differ from traditional instruction. Reading Activities are reader-centered, requiring the student to interact with the text and then rework it creatively in discussion.