Park, Jeong-Suk
About
She is currently director of PERA (Park's Extensive Reading Academy) and a board member of the Extensive Reading Foundation. She was an international juror for the Language Learner Literature Awards. She has actively engaged in promoting Extensive Reading and Listening in Korea while teaching at Gyeongsang National University (GNU) as a suspervising professor of the English Only Zone Program (EAZY). and General Director of GNU English Camp. She also taught elemenatry school and middle school English teachers how to teach English using storybooks at teacher training programs in Korea. She received her doctorate in English Language and Literature from GNU in 2003. Her dissertation was "The Effects of Repeated Storybook Reading on the Language Development of Young EFL Young Learners."Sessions
All levels An Online Zoom Reading Class for Adults in Korea: Online stories as Communicative Tools During Covid 19 more
Sun, Aug 7, 19:00-19:20 Asia/Tokyo
This presentation shows a 15 week-online English class for adults mostly seniors from 2020 through 2021, during the covid 19 era. Internet stories of two websites were used as the primary teaching materials. The presentation talks about 1) various learning activities with easy-to-read online stories with story-map making method 2) Reading-alouds and sharing their daily life experiences, which increased their language exposure and motivated them to read continuously, and 3) volunteering activities of the studentsreading to their family members, children, and neighbors. In addition, the presenters would like to show English teachers how to use online stories and storybooks more effectively in their class.
