The Dream and Deliver Project: Towards Autonomy and Creativity in English as a Foreign Language Classroom.

Every student has unique goals, motivations, and reasons for studying English. Students have different learning strengths, interests, and talents. In this paper, an Independent Learning project called Dream and Deliver is described. The 2013 Korea Dream and Deliver project draws from one business concept and two learning approaches. The business concept is Fedex Day, which was created by Australian software company Atalassian. Fedex Day enables Atalassian employees to spend 24 hours each year working on any project they want. Employees must demonstrate their projects the next day. The two learning styles used in the Dream and Deliver Project are project-based learning and Independent Learning. Next, the results of a study which implemented the Dream and Deliver program with 143South Korean L2 learners are presented and discussed. Instead of their customary Englishlanguage class, the student participants were given a two-hour class to work on any project they wanted as long as it was related to English. The participants could work as members of a group or individually. The teacher’s role was to facilitate and guide the students. The goal of the project was to encourage the participants to use their creativity and individual talents to create and present a project while using English on their own terms. They could work on their projects after class. The students knew that they would present the results of their projects the next week. Surveys and questionnaires were given to the participants to measure their perceptions of the Dream and Deliver project and English education in general.