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Korean Poetry as a 
Resource for ESL Work
 
Michael Belostotsky
(Hoseo University)
Young-soo Jeong
(Myoung-Seong Girls' High School)
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ABSTRACT
One of the cultural areas for foreign teachers to explore is poetic expression in Korean people. This workshop will expose poetry as significant part of Korean cultural system. Presenters will explain samples of the most renown poems to show the level of poetic thinking shared in Korean culture. The practical aim of the workshop is to introduce non-Korean educators to the level of conceptual poetic idiom they can use to teach English.  This will allow them to use associative English as quite culturally acceptable to students.  Students will benefit from encouragement for personal expression in using such areas of language as idiomatic expressions, metaphors, figures of speech, richer grammar, vocabulary semantics etc.  Korean nationals at the workshop will gain cross-cultural insights from interpretations of poems from Western perspective. Designed in a discussion format, this workshop will benefit both the participants and presenters.  Knowledge of Korean, however helpful, is not necessary.
 

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY
Michael Belostotsky has been teaching English at Hoseo University, South Korea since 1996.  Michael holds a master’s degree in Mathematics from Moscow National University and has worked as an analyst and researcher. English is his third language. In the ESL field, Michael has been active  in designing and presenting at KoTesol Teacher Training Workshops. Michael's major interests cover Language Acquisition and implications of ESL Methods with regard to student culture in Korea. Based on his personal language experience, he shares the notion that understanding deeper workings of learning  makes better language educators.

Young-Soo Chung teaches English at Myong-Seong Girls' high school in Seoul.  She combines her interest for languages with her deep interest in poetry.  In her spare time Young-Soo likes to translate from Korean to English.  She also runs a standing workshop in Korean poetry for foreigners residing in Seoul.  Young-Soo is an outreach coordinator for the Seoul KoTESOL Chapter.

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