[EBS입트영 5/24] My First Native Speaker Teacher / 나의 첫 원어민 선생님

24 Fri. 

My First Native Speaker Teacher / 나의 첫 원어민 선생님

 

These days, it's common to see native-speaking English teachers in both the public and private education sectors in Korea.

I found myself thinking about my first native-speaking English teacher.

It was back in 1997 during my middle school years.

As part of a pilot project of the Department of Education, native-speaking English teachers were temporarily assigned to public middle schools.

The teacher who came to our school was a young African American woman named Tonya Jefferson.

 

I only had a few classes with her, during a period of just over a month.

I didn't fully understand everything she said in English.

But she was ahead of the curve with her fashion-forward leggings, and she always greeted us with a bright smile.

I remember it all as if it were yesterday.

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it's common to see ~을 흔히 볼수있다 

public and private education sectors 공교육 및 사교육계

part of a pilot project 시범 사업의 일환

were temporarily assigned 한시적으로 ~에 배치되다 

ahead of the curve 남들보다 앞서가는