I haven't done an actual count of all the teachers, but I think that we have a foreign staff of around 15. These professionals handle the bulk of the load in this program, but they could not, due to sheer numbers, handle it all. Therefore, the English department supplies our program with some of its top notch Korean professors to teach some of these classes as well. The most important element of this class is student participation. All of the work we do is accomplished through communicative task-based activities.
Students can expect to work together in pairs, and in groups quite a lot of the time.
This will be accomplished through interactive, communicative task-based activities. In class our emphasis will be on oral communication, which is derived from interaction among students, the teacher, and the text. Students are advised to come into this class ready to take part in discussions, role plays, presentations, etc. The text itself utilizes readings based on a variety of authentic materials concerned with controversial, contemporary issues of importance to understanding both American society and the wider international community. As this course aims to help develop communicative competence, we will be sharing opinions on the topics covered in class in both spoken and written forms, both in groups and in pairs.