This research is aimed to evaluate the role performance of bilingual teachers at Seoul Dasom School, which provides immigrated adolescents from multi-cultural backgrounds with public education, and investigate effective utilization plan of bilingual t...
This research is aimed to evaluate the role performance of bilingual teachers at Seoul Dasom School, which provides immigrated adolescents from multi-cultural backgrounds with public education, and investigate effective utilization plan of bilingual teachers.
In order to draw the conclusion of this research, a combined research method was selected. A questionnaire survey and interviews were conducted targeting all students, regular teachers, and bilingual teachers of Seoul Dasom School.
The result of the research is that even though bilingual teachers of Seoul Dasom School were originally trained for elementary education, they perform various roles related with students, such as collaborative teaching, counseling support, educational guidance, Korean teaching, native language teaching, interpreting and translating, and academic as well as play diverse roles required at Seoul Dasom School of high school curriculum through their own voluntary adjustment process.
First, the lower Korean language ability the students had or the higher native language ability they had, the more satisfaction they showed. At collaborative classes, students with low Korean language ability received assistance from bilingual teachers, but ones with high Korean ability had a difficulty concentrating in class because of bilingual teachers’ participation. As for native language teaching, there are cases that students want education of their friends’ languages and cultures. In respect of counselling support, students asked bilingual teachers to intervene in and support the satisfactory relationship of students with low Korean language ability and national background at the beginning of the semester.
Regular teachers mostly showed satisfaction about of bilingual teachers’ roles to support them because of students with low Korean ability. Particularly, high satisfaction was revealed from counselling support, educational guidance, and interpreting and translating. Regular teachers asked bilingual teachers to use Korean if possible instead of native languages in order to improve students’ Korean ability and remove unnecessary misunderstanding with regular teachers when they have a talk with students or other bilingual teachers.
Bilingual teachers revealed high satisfaction about their roles required by Seoul Dasom School. It was reflected by their sense of accomplishment that they performed difficult roles for regular teachers. Bilingual teachers wanted chances to take a subject training for professional knowledge acquisition and a specialized counselling training. They express excessively heavy duties of various roles and feel an anxiety about employment status, with which they are newly positioned by re-contraction every year.
As a result of this research, training bilingual teachers specialized for secondary vocational education, counselling and guidance for students having adjustment problems at Korean life, a chance to provide native language education, a chance to communicate between regular teachers and bilingual teachers, documentation of duties of bilingual teachers, their own voluntary effort to improve professional ability, and employment guarantee within a certain period of time were concluded as an effective utilization plan of bilingual teachers.
The result of this research is expected to contribute to the settlement of bilingual teacher system of Seoul Dasom School and the development of multi-cultural education for immigrated adolescents.