새로운 영어교육 환경에 부응하는 영어교사의 자질

Quality of English teachers in the era of globalization

The age of information and globalization calls for English teachers to have more global perspectives in their approach to teaching of English. This becomes urgent since the Inner Circle countries can no longer impose their variety and culture on the teaching of English in the Expanding Circle countries such as Korea, in the era when the Englishes from Outer Circle countries have already established their validity as regional varieties in the international arena of global communication. For English teachers of Korea to become part of this internationalization process, the author argues, they need to espouse a new perspective of teaching English as an international language while refining their understanding of major underpinnings of the National Curriculum domestically. In this paper, a modified view of TEE (teaching English through English) is suggested, which is consistent with the new perspective of EIL.