%0 Journal Article
%T How to Share Korean Language and Culture with Pre-Service Teachers in the United States
%A Yong Joon Park
%A Youjin Yang
%J International Education Studies
%D 2013
%I 
%R 10.5539/ies.v6n5p78
%X Many teacher educators believe that pre-service teachers should be aware of their future classroom environment including students who have linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. This paper is a description of how two teacher educators helped pre-service teachers develop their multicultural awareness in preparation for careers in Early Childhood Education. 74 pre-service teachers participated in the 8-week-long intervention, learning about 8 different topics of Korean language and culture during the 2012 Institute of Early Childhood Education Forum. The authors¡¯ and presenters¡¯ reflections, and participants¡¯ survey data were collected, analyzed, and summarized for the intervention. The study results indicated that considering a variety of instructional strategies could help teacher educators prepare a forum to teach about Korean language and culture in Early Childhood Education and that pre-service teachers could receive benefits from the information offered.
%U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ies/article/view/25677