Department of English Language and Industry

We live in a world where English is a global language and the Department of English Language and Industry is aimed at producing English experts who are equipped with advanced English skills and understanding of English-speaking societies and culture. The Department develops practical communications skills by strengthening students’ speaking, listening and writing skills and providing opportunities for internships, overseas language programs and student exchange programs. The curriculum which includes courses and research in English literature, English-speaking societies and culture, is designed to broaden students’ global perspective.

Location : Rm.109, Hanul Hall

Tel : 82-2-940-5360

Website : https://english.kw.ac.kr/

Course Descriptions

English Grammar 1

This course looks into English grammar with a focus on various forms of English sentences and the subtleties of their contextual meanings in diverse linguistic contexts.

Introduction to English Literature

This course will conduct a chronological overview of the representative British writers and their works, with a focus on each period's historical events. We will examine how each piece of literature reveals its time, and explore the world of English literature as a mirror reflecting the spirit of each era.

English Debate and Presentation

This course is required for English majors. Accordingly, the focus will be twofold: first, on learning the basics of the extended speech (10 minutes), from drafting, editing to presentation in front of others. Second, we will attempt debate according to the Lincoln-Douglass debate format. Through debate, students will learn various logical fallacies, how to construct arguments, and, finally, various perspectives through which to view controversial topics.

English Phonetics and Pronunciation Training

This course studies the basics of English Phonetics and trains students to acquire natural English pronunciation. In addition, frequently mistaken expressions will be practiced thoroughly, by theoretical analysis and practical training.

English Grammar 2

This course is an advanced level of English grammar with a special focus on the form and meaning of actual sentences of modern English. Students will be able to distinguish acceptable and unacceptable English phrases and sentences and to write and speak with a more correct and refined rhetoric.

Introduction to English Linguistics

This course covers the basic concepts of English language and linguistics. The subject covers phonetic and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their extensions including historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psychological linguistics. Students will have a general grasp of the English language and its theory.

English Morphology & Vocabulary Teaching

This course covers two different topics: word-formation rules in English and teaching English vocabulary. The first half of the semester will be spent on morphological rules in English, including the following topics; morphemes, allomorphy, affixation, productivity, mental lexicon, derivation, and compounding, and the second half on how to teach English vocabulary, focusing on psychological learning mechanism and teaching/learning methods.

Movies and English Culture

This course will study various elements of Anglo-American culture by analyzing a number of British and American films. It will also point out some fundamental problems inherent in Anglo-American culture, as reflected in those films, and attempt to find appropriate solutions to those problems. Furthermore, this course will examine how Anglo-American culture tends to be modernized, popularized, and globalized through the medium of film.

Language Acquisition and English Teaching

This course discusses how a second language (e.g. English) is acquired by learners who speak different languages (e.g. Korean) and how English education should be carried out for those learners. Central themes of the lectures include, comprehensively, learner corpora and data gathering, roles of first language, interlanguage, theories and approaches, language processing, input/interaction/output hypotheses, classroom language learning, etc. The class will expand discussions on English teaching and learning as well as teaching methodologies.

Marketing Narrative

This course aims to nurture students’ appreciation of a variety of literary and non-literary texts such as autobiography, oration, diary, essays, poetry, short stories, magazine articles, press editorials, photography advertising and commercial narratives. Students will see and assess the use and impact of figure of speech on narrative effectiveness and also look at how diverse industries employ marketing strategies to achieve their goals.

Translation Practice

This course aims to improve the competence in English-to-Korean and Korean-to-English translation, which is a necessary linguistic knowledge in the interlingual and intercultural global communities. Another goal is to open the door to the road of practical, professional translators. Lectures include translation history and theories, translator’s competence, translation technique, translation errors, and machine translation and post-editing. Especially, at the half of the semester, students learn the concept of machine translation and the method for post-editing.

English and Language as Science

This course deals with English syntax, sentence level grammar, from grammar-as-science perspectives. Grammar is a scientific matter which must be approached in terms of scientific research methods. Scientific research is argumentation process in which several hypotheses are compared and competed against one another. Students will be able to build their own argument to compete with other alternatives about English syntax.

Development of English Education Programs

This course aims to explore pedagogical, empirical, practical, and theoretical issues regarding language learning and teaching in technology-mediated contexts. The course has three overarching goals: (1) to continuously improve students' use of technology for learning and teaching English; (2) to help students to understand theoretical and pedagogical concepts of teaching and learning English with technology; and (3) to facilitate students' development as a professional in their desired career field.

Digital Editing

This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts of electronic publication and develop skills to edit online English text contents. Students will deal with various kinds of editing skills using the EPub Editor Sigil and HTML language. Practicing editing skills, students make plans for their own E-publishing, and complete their projects. This course helps students have competence in creating online English contents and distribute it through E-publishing. Students will ultimately understand how they can create and manage their own contents and apply it online and in the field of E-publication.

English Drama and Practical English

This course aims to develop the four skills in the English language--listening, speaking, reading and writing--by using drama scripts and their video images. It will also teach the main elements of drama as well as some important aspects of Anglo-American culture.

World Englishes

This course deals with a variety of the English language from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. This courses conducts a linguistic and socio-historical review of the origin of British and American English and their varieties worldwide. English as a global language will also be tackled including English in Korea issues. Students will understand the origin, development, and varieties of the English language.

Contrastive Analysis of English and Korea

This course systematically conducts a contrastive analysis of English and Korean, in order to highlight the possible errors made by Korean English learners. The course will cover systematic and accidental gaps between English and Korean in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

Essay Writing and Writing Education

This course aims to help students improve their writing skills in English. It is particularly designed for students to expose to various types of English sentence and essay structures, and practice writing in English. The goal of this course is to train students to acquire the basics of academic writing in English and apply them to their writing. In this course, students review rules in English grammar and learn the correct use of punctuation. They will also study the writing process, style, syntax, and arguments, so they ultimately learn how to produce research papers, argumentative/persuasive essays, and academic writing.

Studies in Material Development

The main goal of the course is to have students gain a critical view on English textbooks in terms of analysis, evaluation, and development of the teaching/learning materials. The learning procedure is designed as problem-based; real-world problems will be given to students and students are to explore independently to identify and solve the problems.

English Corpus Linguistics

This course is an introduction to linguistic research methods to create and analyze large collections of text or speech material. This approach applies in any linguistic sub-discipline and efficiently manages very large-scale language data in natural communicative settings. The goal of this course is to give of the basic concepts and techniques used in quantitative analysis for corpus linguistics.

Career Development and Employment Strategies

This course helps students to navigate and plan their career paths. Students will acquire field knowledge and skills from guest speakers – experts from various fields in the industry. Students will get trained on job searching, including how to write a resume and cover letter. The first half of the program will be run by the school, and the second half by the department.

Language and Society

This course is based on the discussion of the relationship between language and society and the various functions of language in society. Social structures can influence or determine language structures and behaviors, and speak different languages depending on age, class, and gender. By studying the problems of language in accordance with these regional and social differences, we recognize the importance of language in our society and learn examples of English usage in culture. The purpose of this course is to develop the ability to understand and use language appropriate to the language by studying subjects such as language variation, language and sex, language and culture, etc.

British & American Novel and Storytelling

Reading various texts, students will not merely comprehend useful expressions each literary work conveys but they will also delve into deep inside the consciousness of the writers and try to figure out what they aim to express in their literary work. In classroom students will read important literary works and study how each literary work reflects various socio-cultural facets of the society where the author belongs. Our discussion will lead students to a developed level where they can generate their own analytical skills and arguments. Students will learn vocabulary as well as various forms of expression by reading each new text. At the middle part of the semester they will also be given a chance to create their own short story.

Capstone Project: English Language and Industry

This course aims to help students to explore the current issues in the field of English industry (e.g. machine translation, English learning app development, English cultural industry), put their knowledge into practice, and develop their ideas. Through this course, students will learn how to collect and synthesize information, critically analyze the collected texts/data, and finally propose original ideas in the form of oral and written presentation. Throughout this course, students will be able to develop their critical and logical thinking ability, alongside creativity.

American Literature and Popular Culture

This course is designed to read various facets of modern American society and major ideologies it begets. While reading literary texts written by major American authors, students are going to look at various sociocultural phenomena of American society through the perspective of religion, ideology, collective consciousness, custom, individualism, gender, and race. This course will address such interesting issues as who are Americans, what holds American society together and how Americans shape their own national or personal identity.

Introduction to English Language and Industry

This course introduces students the basic concepts and diverse fields of English language and industry. Students are able to understand the basic concepts like the 4th industrial revolution, language data processing, corpus, machine translation, and edutainment of the English language, based on the understanding of English language and literature contents.

Shakespeare Industry

In this course, students study how to use the global name brand Shakespeare for commercial advertisement or commercial tourism as well as produce and sell Shakespeare's works as educational and performance products. They will also learn the translation, publication, performance, festival planning, integration with other genres of art (music, art, musicals, operas, movies, etc.) and psychotherapy effects (drama therapy). Furthermore, it is seeking to reverse-export status and prospects to the overseas market through the transplantation of Shakespeare's performances in Korea.

Teaching Practicum and Service Learning

The English Education and Social Services is field-based and seminar-based course, consisting of lectures by domestic and foreign field experts in various fields. Students develop contents and activities of English education social services in groups to practice in the field, and English Department professors provide individualized instructions. This social service practice takes place for four weeks, and the assessment is based on lesson planning, teaching portfolio, and teaching journal.

English Industry and Business Management

This course introduces a series of processes, including entrepreneurship, preparation for start-up, management, marketing, and performance analysis, with regard to the start-up companies when English majors start their own businesses. In particular, students understand the possibility of finding blue-ocean field in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and related cases of start-up companies established by English majors from the point of management perspective.

Language Testing and Statistics

This course is for seniors in English Department who are interested in English education, and is centered on "problem-based learning." Students analyze problems related to the actual English tests and jointly seek solutions through individual and cooperative learning. In the process of solving problems, students expect to learn the basic concepts and theories of English evaluation and statistics naturally. This course covers the theoretical understanding of the validity and reliability of English assessment (reading, writing, listening, speaking) tools, how to measure reliability, and the basic statistical concepts for result analysis.

Audiovisual English Translation

In the 'Translation Practice' course, translation theory and translation practice were conducted. This course will then study and practice the core of media translation, such as the mechanisms of subtitles production and dubbing work. Unlike document translation, media translation requires liberal translation of original language to the target language to visualize the core contents effectively in a limited time and space. Students will conduct translation practices in the field of dramas, movies and documentaries.

ACADEMICS KW University