This study explores ways to enhance pre-service English teachers’ curriculum development competency through collaboration with in-service teachers. To this end, a course was designed to incorporate three key competencies of curriculum development (curriculum literacy, curriculum development competency, and curriculum evaluation competency) while adopting task-based language teaching and collaboration with inservice teachers as teaching methods. The designed course was implemented in a university for validation and revision. Ten pre-service English teachers participated in the course, where they developed English curricula in response to requests from three in-service middle school English teachers. A questionnaire survey conducted at the end of the semester with both pre-service and in-service teachers revealed that the proposed course model adequately worked to improve the three key competencies of English curriculum development among pre-service teachers. Further, collaboration with inservice teachers was found to enhance pre-service teachers’ responsibility and active engagement in curriculum development, while also providing practical assistance and creative teaching ideas to in-service teachers.

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of good English teachers’ characteristics and to suggest guidelines for how to be a good English teacher by conducting a survey questionnaire to middle and high school students and their English teachers in Korea. The survey was composed of 48 items regarding teaching skills, personality and creativity, and assessing skills. The results showed there are different perceptions about the characteristics of good English teachers between teachers and students. Teachers perceived checking students’ understanding during the class as the most important characteristic followed by giving appropriate feedback to students, while students perceived treating them respectfully as the most important one. According to the research findings, this study suggests that English teachers should carefully consider developing students’ affective and creative aspects as well as linguistic skills that were shown to be important in both teacher and student perceptions. It also suggests the curriculum developers and teacher trainers for English teachers should continuously monitor the teacher evaluation process and apply the findings as helpful guidelines for future research and practice.

Teachers’ job satisfaction is a crucial factor to determine the quality of education in that it affects their dedication and participation. While teachers’ job satisfaction in general has been widely investigated, subject-related job satisfaction has been sparsely explored. Thus, this study investiaged both general and subject-related job satisfaction and compared them. A total of 117 secondary English teachers in Seoul participated in a survey which measures job satisfaction in terms of seven factors: relationship with people, job duties, work environments, opportunities for professional development, compensations, administration systems, and recognitions. Overall, the participants showed a modest level of satisfaction in both general and subjet-related jobs. Yet, subject-related job satisfaction was higher than general job satisfaction. They were particularly satisfied with their relationship with students and teachers. They also showed high satisfaction with recognition they receive as a teacher as well as an English teacher. In contrast, they were dissatisfied with compensations and workloads in general, and the number of students in charge and administrative support in teaching English. Finally, their job satisfaction was affected by gender, school type, position, and marriage. Based on the results, suggestions to enhance secondary English teachers’ job satisfaction were made.

The study examined the 2009 overseas program of the SNU Intensive English Teacher Training Program (IETTP) to evaluate overall management and its effects for future improvements. Following an overview of the 2009 overseas program, the present study provides the results of the program survey and English proficiency tests that were conducted on 42 trainees. The results indicated that the program was successful in terms of its management and improving English teachers' English proficiency. Especially, the trainees showed strong satisfaction for school visits, culture excursions, and special lecture series which exposed them to invaluable experience of looking into an English speaking country. Three suggestions were proposed in terms of managing and evaluating the overseas program of the IETTP. First, the IETTP needs to take proaction in identifying the needs of in-service English teachers and to reflect those needs in its overseas program. Second, the IETTP needs to develop a customized overseas program which can best support main goals of its overall six-month training program. Lastly, an evaluation of the program needs to incorporate more than just a survey method to triangulate the outcome of the study.

The Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology has made strenuous efforts to improve the quality of English education in public sector. One such attempt is a long-term, intensive teacher training that began in 2007 to facilitate teachers' ability for teaching English in English (TEE). This initiative has expanded over the years such that the number of training institutions has increased to 22 in 2009 to serve growing numberof trainees. This development is not without problems as there is a lack ofconsistency in curriculum, course content, quality of instructors, and overseas training among these institutions. This study aims to check the current status of various teacher training programs and suggest ideas for enhancing the quality of the programs. For the purpose of the study, questionnaires were administered to 900 English teachers to have themevaluate the training programs they had participated in. The findings from 449 respondents showed that most teachers were satisfied with their training programs. These teachers felt that the training programs helped to promote both English skills and teaching skills. Yet, they expressed some concerns about unbalanced curriculum, lack of follow-up service, inefficiency ofoverseas training, etc.

본 연구는 한국인 중등 영어교사(KETs) 2명과 원어민 영어보조교사(NETs) 2명의 의견을 바탕으로, 현재 코티칭 수업에 대한 그들의 시각에 대해 논의한다. 한국에서의 개인적 교수경험을 기초로 한 코칭에 대한 정의, 코티칭에 대한 현재의 태도를 결정하는 데 영향을 끼친 요소들, 더 나은 코티칭 수업을 위해 필요한 점에 대한 그들의 의견을 온라인 비디오 인터뷰를 통해 수집하였으며, 동료검토 과정(Peer debriefing session)을 통해 분석하였다. 자료 분석 결과, 네 명의 영어교사 모두가 코티칭의 개념, 코티칭 수업의 목표, 어떻게 코티칭 수업을 하고 피드백을 공유할 지에 대한 명확한 합의에 도달하지 못하였으며, 그 실천 가능한 방법을 배울 기회가 부족했다. 그로 인해, 한국인 중등 영어교사와 원어민 영어교사 사이 수업에 대한 주인의식(Sense of ownership)이 불균형하고, 코티칭에 대한 서로의 의견이 암묵적으로 불일치하는 상황이 야기되었다. 또한 원어민 교사와의 코티칭 관련 협의 과정에서 어려움을 경험한 바 있었다. 한국인 영어교사들은 코티칭 수업에 대한 진지한 의견을 공유 하려는 시도 자체가, 그들의 원어민 영어보조교사들에 의해 "방해 (혹은 간섭)”으로 받아들여질 것이 라고 생각하고 있었다. 또한, 네 명의 참여자들 모두 코티칭에 필요한 요소인 협력하는 방법을 제대로 연수 할 기회가 없었다는 것을 인터뷰 분석을 통해 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 연구 결과를 바탕으로 영어 코티칭 교사들 사이에 건설적인 협의를 할 수 있는 방향을 제시한다.