When I look back upon my school days, I liked English and liked to study it. So, I usually got good scores in tests.

But, it is hard for me to recall English teachers who are in my memory specially. When I think about the reason now, they were like 'the explainer' of the three kinds of teacher and had traditional teaching. They told us the meanings of words and sentences, and explained grammar on the blackboard. Namely, during most class time, they used the blackboard and talked too much to explain things.

As 'jug and mug', they poured the knowledge into us students, while we including I, only listened, concentrated and took notes on what teachers said in inactive  attitudes.

I knew that it was close to a failure as a language learning experience when I took a trip to the USA where my sisters are. I hardly listened and understood even easy words or sentences from the native speakers and had difficulty saying them as well. It was a frustrating experience and I found me not a person who was good at English but a one who just liked English.

I taught English through Korean at several academies for about ten years, and now, am working at an elementary school as a after school English teacher. In my current job, I need to use English mainly, Korean subsidiarily.

From the trips to the USA, I got to have a desire to improve my English ability(listening, speaking especially). So I am working at my present workplace with the mind that not only I'm teaching English but also learning it because I am working with a native teacher.

Frankly speaking, I like English but don't like teaching it much. Anyway, from my work and Tesol class, I hope to be a better person in English ability itself than before, and be able to teach as 'the enabler' who knows about the subject matter and about methodology, but also has a awareness of my students' thoughts and feelings within my class.