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Teaching English in Gangwon-do counties

Hwacheon County has been among the most active counties facilitating teaching English in Gangwon-do.

The county has particularly been a major help in the high-quality foreign language learning of rural school students through a project to place native English language assistant teachers in the county.

On June 29th, four students from Wonwon Elementary School in Hanam-myeon visited the county office head, Choi Moon-soon.

The meeting was held at the request of the children who wanted to deliver a handwritten thank-you letter to Mayor Choi, who had supported the placement of native-speaking assistant teachers at the school.

The children sitting next to Mayor Choi said, “It is difficult to go from home or school to a private academy in the city, but it is so much fun to be able to play and talk with foreign teachers at school. We want to say thank you and we wrote this letter of thanks.”

Hwacheon-gun is one of the most assertive counties for enabling foreign language education for local students among local governments across the country. A total of 17 native language assistant teachers are currently active in the area.

This year, they secured eight native-speaking assistant teachers for Fulbright, and placed five of them in elementary and middle schools, and three of them are teaching children at Hwacheon-gun’s own foreign language academy.

In addition, the local Ministry of Education is partially subsidizing the budget for the EPIK native speaker assistant teacher (9 students) placement project.

Also, it provides opportunities to experience British and American culture through a homestay program for native English teachers, a public library, and a foreign language academy.

When daily life is restored from COVID-19, the existing middle and high school students plan to expand overseas language training and include backpacking trips.

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Teaching English in Gangwon-do

Teaching English in Korea’s Hwacheon

Teaching English in Korea programs are being expanded in Hwacheon-gun, a beautiful county north of Chuncheon in South Korea’s Gangwon Province.

On April 18th, the county announced that it would double the English cultural experience for preschoolers participating in a local English academy this year and hold it six times.

Teaching English in Gangwon-doThe English cultural experience, which will be expanded this year, consists of an interest-based and experience-oriented program for children who are new to English.

In the first year of its introduction, Hwacheon-gun conducted three English cultural experience programs: Thanksgiving Day in September last year, Halloween Day in October, and Christmas in December.

This year, three additional events were added for the first half of this year: Saint Patrick’s Day in March, Easter in April, and Mother’s Day in May.

Participating children made ghost balloons with a native English teacher on Halloween Day, and listened to a story to find out the origins of Thanksgiving Day. During Christmas, they sang carols and the English teacher dressed up as Santa himself.

The support for teaching English in Korea to local preschoolers and adolescents promoted by Hwacheon-gun goes beyond simple special activities.

Hwacheon-gun has opened and is operating a local English academy offering Elementary English, Middle School English. All courses are tested and tailored for each level, from beginner to advanced.

Last year, through the foreign language academy, a total of 100 elementary school students took the YBM-hosted English language certification test (JET) and obtained grades.

Hwacheon-gun is continuously operating various cultural experience education for preschoolers as well as foreign languages. Hwacheon-gun has opened about 40 kids culture workshops on each day of the week, including kids cooking, healing art, and math, since last month, and most of the courses have filled up quickly.

Myeong-su Choi, Deputy Governor of Hwacheon, said, “We will continue to support Hwacheon’s children and youth with the highest level of foreign language learning programs that are comparable to language schools.”

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