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I'm really expecting a lot from studying in Korea. SOP for applying to a scholarship (KGSP) [23]
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I edited some things on my essay, so this is the final one. Please tell me what you think about it :).
To major in English, one does not have only to know how to read, write and speak correctly, but having knowledge about English literarure and understanding different forms of literary works is also of great importance. I realized this after I have studies two years at university, and this is my last year. The pervous two years were enough for me to know that the best major to choose for my studies is English literature.
The passion for reading have become a part of me and day by day, I realized that literature is very important for an English learner. It helps enriching one's vocabulary as well as enhancing creativity and more importantly, it introduces the English culture to the learner, because after I have read a couple of books and analysing them, I had the chance to know more about the English culture. I could know also the relation between some literary works and society as well as politics which i found very interesting.
I plan to conduct a research about translated Korean literature in relation to the English literature, and possibilities of using them as tools for teaching English literature to Koreans. Recently, some of translated korean novels have been widely read in some parts of the world such as the novel of Shin Kyung-sook "please look after my mom" which had quiet fame among readers. So I plan, in order to do this research, to analyse a couple of translated Korean novels and see what kind of relations they have with the English literature, and Try to find out whether or not these novels can be used in teaching English literature. In order to collect the data I need for my research, I will interview some teachers of korean literatue as well as teachers of English literature in order to know how can such novels, according to them, be helpful in teaching the English literature. In addition to this, I will do some surveys among students of both Korean and English literature so that I can know their opinions regarding this topic, and I will find other resources that would help in conducting this research.
As a study plan, I will do my best to get higher grades and reach higher levels in learning korean. I plan to get in touch with more koreans in order to improve my korean, and I will try to attend any cultural events that would be held their in order to know more about korea. I plan also to make a lot of Korean friend and chat with them using only Korean so that I will improve my korean skills especially pronounciation.
While studying my masters in Korea, I have planned to do a lot. First of all, I will work hard to be among the best. As korean universities gained very good reputation arround the world, I am expecting to learn and benefit a lot from studying there. One of the things I plan to do at university is to create an English club where weekly meetings can be held in which we can make presentations, workshops, monologues...etc. The aim of this club will be to improve student's English skills and help each other in a real exchange of ideas. Since we will be studying English literature, we can also hold meetings where we analyse specific literary works. I believe that such clubs would, if students interacted with it, be very successful and would help students to do very well in their studies, because English literature is a very difticult major to study, but very interesting as well.
Aftet finishing my studies in Korea, I plan to find a job as a teacher. Actually, in the past I had never thought of becoming a teacher; however, when I studied at a private school of English, my thoughts about teaching had changed completely, thanks to the great teachers I had their, who taught me a planty of things and made me realize how great a teachet can be, and how he can be a guide and a source of motivation and encouragement for his students . So I want to be a teacher of English in Korea helping Korean students to improve their skills and guide them to achieve their goala. If I didn't have the chance to do so in Korea, I would come back to my home country and try to find a job as a teacher. In both cases, I will do my best and more to be a great teacher.
