EFL In South Korea

These days there is a lot of pressure, worldwide, for students to be masters of everything. Students feel a  mixture of anxiety to be the best, and motivation to do their best. When these two mix , it can create great  things. However, sometimes it can cause a lot of  stress  which can lead to failure and defeat.   If we can  identify these issues in our classroom and predict  their  course then we as educators can make moves to eliminate  these  factors, thereby enabling our students to experience a more comfortable  and  effective classroom. Common factors for motivation include teacher expectations, students’ intrinsic motivation, harmony between perceived and actual language ability and students' use of metacognitive learning strategies. These factors combined, or alone, contribute to student anxiety and motivation about learning English as a foreign language. If students are supported by teachers and feel they can rise to their high expectations to succeed in class

Encouraging your child to increase their vocabulary has been proven to improve reading comprehension as well as overall academic achievement. This might seem obvious to most teachers and involved parents, but some might not have closely considered this connection before. While at school, on the playground, watching t.v., or even listening to their parents talk, children are exposed to a wide variety of new words each day, some of which they are able to morphologically decode and connect with words they already know. Morphological awareness is a huge part of this development and occurs naturally, through various stages, in learners of any language.  This strategy of using morphemes to develop vocabulary, in the hopes of attaining fluency, is useful in the classroom. When students can visually make connections between variations of words they already know, their vocabulary can increase exponentially. For example, I studied Latin for several years and my vocabulary expanded as