Just a quick update to let you know that the next month will be pretty bare as far as new material goes. I’m in the final stages of submitting my dissertation, so as you can imagine, I must be completely focused on reading and revising drafts. My date for submission is June 11, so normal [...]

There’s no doubt that the people from the Middle East are very proud people. They are proud of their country, of their history and of their language. Except when speaking English… many of those I speak to wish to lose all traces of the  markers that identify them as being from the region. But that’s a [...]

It appears as if we have been nominated for this years Top 100 Language Blogs over at LexioPhiles. Very happy indeed. Voting will start May 12, so I will post a reminder then
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Just a quick note to all out there…
Apologies for the lack of posting in the first quarter of the year. My post-grad research has been keeping me pretty busy, and  having the young boy rolling around the house has kept us even busier. But it’s all coming together nicely.
Leon is growing fast and we seem [...]

As a follow-up to the Multilingual Children post a while back, this is a question we’ve been pondering lately… How do you develop and maintain literacy in the home language without formal instruction?
The obvious way as we are both teachers is to actively teach our son how to write and give him written tasks as [...]

As Nayoung and I have just had our baby boy – Leon Jaewoo – I may as well do a write up on multilingual children and the common methods surrounding the raising of them. Obviously, we would love for our boy to grow up as a coordinate bilingual of English and Korean… but how are [...]

Bio:
My name is Andee, obviously… I’m originally from the UK of Polish heritage and we emigrated to Australia when I was a child. I’m an Asian Studies/TESOL graduate and am currently undertaking my MA (Applied Linguistics). I have been teaching ESL since 2005 both privately and in the school system in Australia and Korea. After [...]

A review of my study abroad experiences at Yonsei University, Korea. Details the programs on offer, class structure and teaching style.