Gadamer의 해석학적 이론에서 본 한국 영어교사의 소통 탐색 : 영어원어민 교사와의 관계를 중심으로

A Gadamerian Hermeneutic Inquiry into Korean English Teachers’ Communication with Native English Speaking Teachers

In the globalized world of today it is inevitable for us to live with people from different cultures. Globalization also requires Korean English teachers to work with native English speaking teachers in their classes. We have believed that the teachers would collaborate with each other successfully in carrying out teaching students in class. However, some teachers I met told me that they have not usually done co-work with each other and divided their roles in class. I have wondered what happened in English classes. While seeking for the answers for the query I have found that two factors, a societal hegemony and a administrative political power, had a great influence over the two groups of teachers and brought about conflicts between them. In order to reduce the conflicts, I have adopted Gadamer’s(1994) suggestion: “we must place ourselves in the other situation in order to understand it” (p. 330). I propose that native English speaking teachers learn the Korean language and cultures as Korean English teachers make efforts to learn the English language and cultures. This endeavor would make the class a space of understanding and sympathy and thus reduce the distance between the two groups of teachers and reach a peace between them in the end as suggested by Gadamer(2007).