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Pre-KOTESOL Publications

Korea TESOL inherited the legacy of 12 years of publications by the Association of English Teachers in Korea (AETK; 1981-1992). These ties are expressly recognized in the masthead in Language Teaching: The Korea TESOL Journal, which was published by KOTESOL from 1993~1997.

The look and feel of the final issues of AETK News, along with most of the editors and contributors, transferred to Language Teaching. And The English Connection, Korea TESOL Journal, and KOTESOL Proceedings are the current serial publications from this legacy.

KOTESOL is proud to recognize these ties, and share past issues from our predecessor.

The title of this AETK publication varied over the years, including

  • Teaching English in Korea: The Newsletter
  • AETK News
  • AETK Bulletin
  • AETK Newsletter
     

Looking Back (from AETK Bulletin #11, Jan 1989)

The first AETK newsletter was called Teaching English in Korea and began with Barbara Mintz as editor in January 1982. There were five issues in Volume 1 (1982), three in Volume 2 (1983), and one in Volume 3 (1984). The name was changed to AETK News when the present editor (Eric Strickland) began in 1985, but the system of numbering was continued. There were five issues in Volume 4 (1985-1986) and five in Volume 5 (1986-1987).

The present newsletter, AETK Bulletin, began in September 1987. At that point the system of using volume and issue numbers was dropped in favor of the simpler practice of numbering each issue consecutively.

From September 1987 until April 1988, AETK Bulletin (Numbers 1-7) appeared more or less monthly as a short news sheet, then became a bimonthly newsletter in its present format beginning with Number 8, issued in July 1988.

In 1990 the publication was renamed AETK Newsletter and returned to a Volume / Issue Number recording system. There were also intermittent "special issues" (also called "Extra" and "Special Bulletin") to fill in gaps or provide updates between regular issues.

The page size and print technology varied as well. Remember, this was low-budget printing 30-40 years ago! Some earlier pages used old 9-pin dot-matrix printers, and are somewhat more difficult to read in the PDF (and the original). Some issues were printed on a brownish paper, some have erratic inking in final production, and some pages have faded over time.

Links to PDF scans of these publications are available at the bottom of this page.

Please note: OCR (optical character reading) technology is imperfect, particularly with older pages. If you choose to copy-paste text from these scanned documents, double-check your data for accuracy. Some pages (e.g., advertising) are not included in these scanned versions, to reduce file size.

Find current and past KOTESOL publications at
https://koreatesol.org/publications

Find information on conferences from the "pre-KOTESOL" era at https://koreatesol.org/content/conferences-pre-kotesol


 

Attached PDFs: 
AttachmentSize
PDF icon AETK Newsletter v12n1 (Dec 1992)4.95 MB
PDF icon AETK Newsletter v11n4 (Oct 1992)5.69 MB
PDF icon AETK Newsletter v11n3 (June 1992)3.87 MB
PDF icon AETK Newsletter v11n2 (April 1992)2.97 MB
PDF icon AETK Newsletter v10n4 (Oct 1991)14.53 MB
PDF icon AETK Newsletter v10n2 (March 1991)1.2 MB
PDF icon AETK Newsletter (Nov 1989)8 MB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin EXTRA (Nov 1989)326.17 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 16 (Nov 1989)737.22 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 13-15 May-Sept 1989)1.2 MB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 12 (March 1989)934.03 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 11 (Jan 1989)1.16 MB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 10 (Nov 1988)872.88 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 9 (Sept 1988)1.18 MB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 8 (July 1988)616.93 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 7 (April 1988)277.63 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 6 (March 1988)121.37 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 4 (Jan 1988)122.25 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 3 (Dec 1987)117.57 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 2 (Nov 1987)108.06 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin No 1 (Sept 1987)187.82 KB
PDF icon AETK News v5n5 (May 1987)798.24 KB
PDF icon AETK News Special Issue (April 1987)170.9 KB
PDF icon AETK News Special Issue (Nov 1986)92.33 KB
PDF icon AETK News v5n3 (Sept 1986)498.69 KB
PDF icon AETK News v5n2 (July 1986)420.14 KB
PDF icon AETK News Special Bulletin (June 1986)97.67 KB
PDF icon AETK News v5n1 (April 1986)916.01 KB
PDF icon AETK News v4n5 (Feb 1986)154.62 KB
PDF icon AETK News v4n4 (Nov 1985)540.56 KB
PDF icon AETK News v4n3 (Sept 1985)3.57 MB
PDF icon AETK News v4n2 (June 1985)539.71 KB
PDF icon AETK News v4n1 (April 1985)446.93 KB
PDF icon AETK Teaching English in Korea v1n5 (Dec 1982)546.95 KB
PDF icon AETK Teaching English in Korea v1n3 (May 1982)535.34 KB
PDF icon AETK Teaching English in Korea v1n2 (March 1982)447.92 KB
PDF icon AETK Teaching English in Korea v1n1 (Jan 1982)645.93 KB
PDF icon AETK Bulletin #1 (Dec(?) 1981) !! Founding Announcement !!212.55 KB