Exchange Comparison
A Korean Homeroom Teacher
VS.
Native English Subject Teacher
by JIEUN SHIN
Short and Fat Exchange
N: Hi, How are you all today? (Initiate)
Ss: Fine, thanks. (Response)
S1: not so good. (Response)
N: Oh, really. (follow-up. Bound initiate) Why
not?
S1:... (Non-verbal Response)
N: OK. (follow-up)
So, how's the weather like? (Initiate)
Long and Thin Exchange
N: Good morning.
S: Good morning
N: How are you?
Ss: Not so good.
N: Why not so good? Why bad?
S1: California
S2: cold, cold
N: Because it's cold?
Yeah... I hear you. I'm cold too.
S3: Ah…
N: I'm cold too.
S1: California drea~~~ming.
The Korean teacher’s exchange 1
T: Let's think every time it rains.
T: Can? you alive?
Ss: Yeah?
T: Can you be alive?
S: No
T: Why?
Ss: 몰라요~. (I don’t know.)
T: SoonPyo, try.
S: Let me ask you again.
T: Everyone, look at me.
S: 야, 선생님 보래.(Hey, look at the
teacher)
T: As you said today's weather is raining, right?
Ss: Yes.
T: Let's think, let's imagine if it rains always, can
we live without sun?
Ss: No
T: Why?
S: 비가 오기 때문에... (Because it rains.)
T: Because...
Ss: Because
T: Because it's cold.
S: 동상 걸려... (It’s freezing.)
T: And then?
T: Why we can live without sun?
S: Because outside is raining.
T: Outside raining.
T: Ok, Hyungjoon.
S: Because it's raining.
S: We have to eat rice.
S: The rice can't live.
T: Hyungjoon said we have to eat rice but..
T: When the rice is growing up, what does
the rice need for growing?
S: %&%^&
T: What?
S: Sunshine.
T: Sunshine.
T: Do you agree with him?
T: Yes. Good, OK.
The native teacher’s exchange 3
N: Today we're... going to talk about families.
Joonyoung: 뭐라 그러는 거야... (What does she say…)
N: You know... like...
S: noisy.
(talking about the teacher, what she's talking about.)
N: Your family.
Do you have a mother?
Ok, you guys are cool it.
You have a father?
Joonyoung: father
N: Father, yes.
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