Gyonggu Shin's Homepage

Shin Gyeonggu's (Gyonggu Shin's) Homepage

English Grammar1
Level2:Global_Issues
Research_Methods
EnglishSyntax1

Webboard:
Intermediate English
English Grammar

Links:
English Department Humanities
Chonnam National U
Gwangju Internatational Center

Updated on 08/28/2008;
Opened on 04/01/1997

This site is mainly for the cources I have been teaching. This Fall I teach only English Grammar due to additional administrative obligations. I began to use web textbooks since 1997 and manage my classes through cooperative activities in small group discussion since 2001. Webtextbooks allows me the freedom of choice of topics whenever I find the need to. Cooperative activities help both me and students to get fully engaged with each other while learning more.
I was trained to be a theoretical linguist, but my current research interest is in TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language). My current interest includes the English divide or English gap between have's and have-not's. The English divide will get wider unless there is a proper measure by the government and educators. The term 'English divide' was first introduced in the February presentation of the KATE and then in the June 2001 paper at English Teaching. The following is the list of my recent research work.

	Journals
Jun. 30, 2004	College English Teaching in Hong Kong. The The Journal of Linguistic Science 23, 145-160. file
Jun. 30, 2003	A cooperative college English class assisted by the Internet. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 11(2), 159-182. file
Dec. 30, 2002	A Comprehensive Analysis of the English Language Teaching System of Korea and its Solution. Korean Language Education. 11.
Oct. 15, 2001	Excess of English, excess of English certification. In/Outside: English Studies, 11, 60-76. (in Korean). file
Oct. 15, 2001	An Analysis of a College English Course with the Internet as Its Teaching Aid. Language Research. 1, 1-18, with Jihyon Park. (PDF file)
Sept. 30, 2001	A study on the effects of native and nonnative English speaking teachers on anxiety and risk-taking. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 9(2), 159-182, with Hyonju Park. (in Korean) file
June 30, 2001	English language teaching system change to enhance the social justice and the efficiency of the national economy. English Teaching, 56(2), 193-218. (in Korean) PDF file
May 30, 2001	Ten reasons why I oppose teaching English in elementary schools. Internet TEFL Journal, 32, (in Korean). PDF file

	Conferences
Oct. 18, 2003	Web-based textbooks in College English. The Linguistic Association of Korea Proceedings, (2), 159-182. In file
Jun. 26, 2003	English Divide. KATE 2003 Summer International Conference on English Language Policy and Curriculum. Korea Association of Teachers of English. file. (English Divide in ppt)
Feb. 16, 2002	Classrooms with cooperative learning and the Internet, Winter Conference, Korea Association of Teachers of English (Revised from Nov 02)
Nov. 02, 2001	College English classrooms with cooperative learning and the Internet, Annual Conference of the National University Language Centers (Revised from Oct 22)
Oct. 22, 2001	Cooperative college English classrooms using the Internet. Joint Fall Conference of Korea Society of Linguistics, LAK & Korea Society of Linguistic Science. (in PDF)
May 26, 2001	EFL classes with the Internet as a teaching aid, Annual conference, Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
May 12, 2001	Difference of NS and NNS teachers of English affecting the language anxiety and risk-taking. With Hyonju Park, Linguistic Association of Korea Spring conference. (PDF file in Korean)
Apr. 19, 2001	The Promise and the Limit of the Internet as a Teaching Aid in College English, Faculty workshop, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Asian Studies, Nagoya U of Commerce and Business Administration
Feb. 16, 2001	Renovation of the English Language Teaching system with the national economy in consideration KATE Winter conference.