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A New Approach to Teaching English as a Foreign Language: The Bottom-Up Approach

A New Approach to Teaching English as a Foreign Language: The Bottom-Up Approach

| April 5, 2005

Much has been said and written over the years about the merit or other of the traditional teaching methods. Most language teaching methods have closely adhered to the ad hoc top-to-bottom listening-speaking-reading-writing order (e.g. the Audio-lingual Method) or have been single-faceted methods which sacrifice many parts of language in favour of one part (e.g. the Reading Method).

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Evaluation of a trial project for the creation and total integration of English in a mid-sized Private University in Korea

Evaluation of a trial project for the creation and total integration of English in a mid-sized Private University in Korea

| April 5, 2005

In the spring of 2004, as part of the rejuvenation and restructuring of Inje University, the idea of an English Campus, in which the University (a private university in southeastern Korea) would become a campus devoted to the instruction and use of English throughout the curriculum, was created. The idea, like many ideas for growth and development in tertiary institutions was put on hold until an opportune moment for implementation arose.

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