English Test for Native Speaking Teacher?
Posted by Kathryn on 14th May and posted in Korea, Teaching
I came across a few blogs posts in my RSS feed today talking about the possibility of hogwan teachers having to take a test to prove their ability to use the English language. OK. Whatever. Who knows what will come to pass with this. I think it’s interesting it only applies to teachers at private schools. So anyone teaching for the public school system will be exempt.
“We don’t think we can test public school teachers as it is a job of the Korean government. The headquarters plan to measure English skills of teachers at hagwon from next year,” said a source from the institute.
I’d really like to know if this test only applies to foreign teachers or if the Korean English teachers will be required to take the test as well.
ETS to Introduce Test for English Teachers (via The Korea Times).
