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these difficulties, Professor Cho said,
ShortageofSupply
Team
Numbersof
“Before class, I hand out the English
HUFS heralds the study of foreign
Department
ForeignProfessor
Affairs
notesofthelectures.However,Ineedto
languagesinitsveryname.Accordingly,
EnglishLinguistics
6
explainthelectureinKoreaninaddition
HUFS has a plenty of foreign language
Academic
Spanish
6
to this. Moreover, I usually speak only
departments. However, does the
Chinese
3
insimpleEnglish.”
school have sufficient numbers of
/
Campus)
foreign professors commensurate
Russian
3
with its name? In 2007, when HUFS
French
2
(Seoul
InconveniencesResultingfrom
introduced numerous lectures in foreign
Italian
2
MultipleLevelsofProficiencyin
language, it promoted all the foreign
Portuguese
2
Classes
A second difficulty stems from the
part-time instructors to contract full-
Scandinavian
2
gaps between the levels of proficiency
time instructors. This trial suggests the
Langauges
among students. “Actually, students in
seriousness of HUFS’ efforts. But this
Vietnamese
2
the class have different comprehension
wasthecaseonlyforforeigninstructors
Dutch
1
levels in reading, listening and writing.
of “Practical Foreign Language
Hindi
1
Therefore, it is only natural that there
Courses.” What about compulsory
One to three foreign professors were
will be variation in the students’ levels
courses?
assigned to 75 percent of all divisions for
of comprehension of the lecture,” said
In practice, some departments of
thesecondsemesterofthisyear.
LecturerKim.Foreignstudentswhoare
linguistics have a shortage of foreign
not from English-speaking countries
professors.OneofHUFSanswhomajors
salary and living quarters. Due to these
especially have difficulty in taking the
in Russian confirmed that this was true,
disagreements, few foreigners apply for
lectures.
requesting himself to be anonymous.
HUFS.
Suchgapsinlanguageproficiencyresult
This HUFSan said “I think the number
in a certain amount of estrangement
of foreign professors is insufficient.”
WhereDoestheBuckStop?
between those who are more and less
In fact, the number of the professors
AbouttwoyearshavepassedsinceLFL
proficient in English during class time.
assigned into some divisions is low.
were introduced on a large scale. Yet
More proficient students usually take
According to the data from Academic
thereremainseverallingeringproblems.
active part in class discussions, but less
AffairsTeam,seventyfivepercentofall
Has HUFS lacked the capacity to
proficient students tend to be inactive in
the divisions assign one to three foreign
address them? Maybe not. The index
class.“Insuchcases,Ihavetodealwith
professors. “Actually, non-native foreign
of “globalization” from “Report Card
the problem of inactivity during class,”
languagespeakershavesomedifficulties
for the University” stipulated that there
addedKim.
in conveying the intent of the lectures
be a certain proportion of foreign
Worse yet, this estrangement leads
adequately,” said Professor Cho. In his
professors and the lectures they give.
students with lower proficiency in
view, there is a precedent for this. At
In consideration of a commonly-held
English to avoid taking the LFL. A
HUFS, many Korean professors give
view, the recommendation might have
HUFSan who took one such class
lecturesinforeignlanguages.Thiscould
made HUFS introduce the LFL system.
remarked that “Most students of that
beanalternativetoaddresstheshortage
Consequently, HUFS placed second
class were students who studied abroad
of foreign professors. In practice,
among Korean universities by the index
orforeigners.”Furthermore,onecansee
this system of calling upon Korean
of globalization. It is a kind of reversal
in a glimpse that students are generally
professors to deliver their lectures in
oftheproperorderofthings.
reluctanttotakeLFL.
foreignlanguageshasbornesome
The interested parties at HUFS agree
Classesdesignated
fruit.
on the continued necessity of offering
isubookstore.com
as LFL do not
According to Kim Hyung-lee,
lectures in foreign language. However,
have widespread
Team Leader of the Academic
perhapsitistimeforHUFStotakestock
a p p e a l fo r
Affairs Team at HUFS, it is a
of the results of its recent efforts in this
students, and
challenge to appoint foreign
direction, revamping its plans to make
so they tend to
professors. In the process of
furtherprogress.
have low rates
engagement, HUFS and foreigners
ofregistration.
tendtohaveconflictingviewsabout
leeblanc@hufs.ac.kr
SEPTEMBER 2009

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