2019, Vol.20, No.1

Modern English Education 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.55

pISSN : 1598-0782 / eISSN : 2586-6141
https://journal.kci.go.kr/meeso

This paper aims to explore pre-service elementary school teachers’ reflection on their English teaching demonstration. Seventy-one pre-service teachers participated in the study. They were asked to perform three types of teaching demonstration (demonstrating in groups, in pairs, and individually) and to write a reflection paper on their teaching. In order to find out their themes and levels of reflection, the pre-service teachers’ reflection papers were collected and analyzed. The findings of the study were as follows: Four different themes—English teaching, learners, self, and teaching demonstration task—and three levels of reflection—descriptive, comparative, and critical reflection—were identified; the most frequently mentioned theme was English teaching, which was followed by teaching demonstration task; although the least frequent level of reflection was critical, it reaches nearly 20 percent of reflection; teaching demonstration and reflection had positive potentials, influencing pre-service teachers’ perceptions of teaching and reflection on their teaching.

The purpose of this research is to find out how language ideology is maintained within a social class. This study highlights how English, which has high value in Korean society, is recognized as class mobility and is embedded in the fabric of Korean society through upper or middle class parents of international school students in Korea. This research explores what language ideologies function as crucial factors for deciding on their children’s language education. This study uses the qualitative narrative data drawn from interviews with the participants to investigate how the language ideologies are constructed by social class in the Korean context, and how inequalities of class come to be rationalized with these ideologies in Korean society. The main method in content and thematic analysis is the inductive coding of the reflective data according to emerging patterns. The findings revealed that the cultural value of the participants of the middle class was associated with the US. The participants considered English ability itself as one of the qualifications of be¬ing part of the middle class in Korean society. Moreover, the participants constructed their own inner-circle to share their values and norms through the schools. This study shed light on the issue that a cultural capital can play a significant role in constructing social structure, which enables cer¬tain groups to obtain the cultural capital connected to economic advantages in society.

This study aims to analyze the needs of students studying airline service English within the context of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The 68 college students participated in a questionnaire which explored students’ attitudes to nine competency units and 33 competency unit constituents of Airline Cabin Service of the National Competency Standards (NCS) framework. For each com-petency unit constituent, students were asked to indicate their opinions in terms of wants, interests, and needs by assigning a score of 1 to 5 on a 5-point Likert scale. The results of the survey show that they think the competency units of 8 (Dealing with a medical emergency), 6 (Post-landing ser¬vice), 9 (Cabin crew management), and 4 (In-flight service) are those they most want to learn, find interesting, and are necessary. The results of the study are compared with those of a previous needs analysis study of airline service industry experts and a content analysis of 10 airline service English textbooks. In terms of necessity, the results of this study demonstrate similarities in how the students and the industry experts ranked the nine competency units. However, these results show significant differences with the contents analysis of the 10 textbooks. To conclude, this study recommends an alternate sequence of the nine competency units based on the importance and necessity indicated by the students and the industry experts which could be used in future airline service English textbooks.