Investigated learner variables of Korean university students and explored the relationships of the variables to English language proficiency. Results show the correlations between strategies and proficiency were significant, while the correlations between styles and proficiency and between beliefs and proficiency were insignificant. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the inevitability of native culture-loaded expressions in Korean English-as-a-Foreign-Language students' compositions. Cultures, both native and target play a major role in forming ideas in any communicative situation. Thus, Korean EFL students' compositions all reveal without exception the traits of Korean culture. (Author/VWL)

Suggests a synthetic approach for improving English-as-a-Foreign-Language communicative language proficiency in Korea through institutional teacher training and reflective self training. (Author/VWL)

Focuses on promoting Korean English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers' communicative competence, particularly their sociolinguistic ability through inservice training programs. Describes a training program that sought to strengthen and deepen teachers' awareness of sociolinguistic uses of a second language. (Author/VWL)

Suggests that an intensive language-oriented English poetry class conducted for one semester for university students in Korea demonstrates that English poetry can be properly integrated in language classes with positive results, not only by heightening students' motivation and interest in English but also by improving their language performance.…