KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
Douglas Sewell, University of Calgary
Teaching Beyond Korea - Perspectives on Transitioning Back to Your Home Country
Abstract
There comes a time for most foreign English teachers in Korea where they start to seriously consider the direction of their teaching career. This time may come with successes and a desire for future challenges or with setbacks and desire for change. None-the-less, for most it will come. Yet despite the many teachers in Korea who are seeking to understand how to develop their teaching career either in their home country or internationally, there is little accurate information available to base decisions on. This workshop is an attempt to give a clearer picture of both the challenges faced by and opportunities available to foreign teachers currently in Korea. It is meant to help teachers make those critical career decisions that inevitably arise.
Biographicals
Douglas Sewell has been both a language teacher and teacher trainer for almost 18 years. Currently faculty in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Douglas has previously taught English in China and both English and education courses in South Korea, the UK and the UAE. Completing his Ph.D. in Education in 2013, Douglas' research interests focus on Self-Regulation of Language Learning among ESL/EFL learners, and by extension how to help such learners become more effective in their English language studies. Derived from this, he is also quite interested in L2 language assessment and the backwash of assessment techniques on students' evolving approaches to the their English studies.
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