Jounal Article Critique #2 (CCU)

Citation: Park, Yong Joon & Yang, Youjin. 2013. How to Share Korean Language and Culture with Pre-Service Teachers in the United State. Canadian Center of Science and Education.

The title of the article is How to Share Korean Language and Culture with Pre-Service Teachers in the United State. It was an article which had an aimed to describe the way of two teacher educators helped pre-service teachers develop their multicultural awareness in career preparation of Early Childhood Education. As it had been known that the school have become more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse (Watanbe, 2010), the researcher assumed that pre-service teacher should aware of their future classroom environment, including students who have linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. For that reason, the researcher conducted this study in order to describe how to share Korean language and culture in the United State.

The research was a kind of action research which had two cycles, and each cycles consisted of four phases (planning, acting, observing, and reflecting). The subjects of the study were 74 pre-service teachers enrolled in a teacher education program located in a Midwestern region of the USA. Seventy female and four male pre-service teachers participated in this study. For the ethnicity, 98% were White and 2% were Black or Hispanic.

The data were collected both quantitatively and qualitatively. The collected quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS. The qualitative data were separately analyzed by both authors and the analyses were compared. From the data, it can be concluded that the action of the researcher who conducted the research was meaningful for pre-service teachers who would work with racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse children in the USA. Based on our reflection, we believe that the action research cycle worked well for the forum preparation and future plans. some thought that future forums could be better with more hands-on activities rather than lectures, and some of them also thought that more time was necessary for each session.