KSU Korean Program and Korean Education Center Collaborate to Host Eight Students
from Kyung Hee University, South Korea.
The Korean Program of the Department of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University,
with support from the Korean Education Center in Atlanta, has been offering a fun
and intensive, residential Korean language teacher-training program for a group of
8 students from Kyung Hee University, South Korea. The program directed by Dr. Jeongyi
Lee, coordinator of the Korean Program, is intentionally designed to provide student
teacher-trainees with a wide variety of learning experiences that are meant to maximize
their potential to improve pedagogical, linguistic, and cultural skills, which enhance
their teaching abilities. Key components of the program also include practicum-based
experiences, community engagement and mission projects, and field trips. The student
teacher trainees have been having one-on-one conversation partnership with learners
of Korean at KSU, so-called K-Buddy Program, to develop their cross-cultural communication
by connecting with people of different backgrounds. The 4-week program started on
August 8th and lasts until August 30th.
