Stephen van Vlack
Sookmyung Women`s University
Division of English Language and Literature
English for International Communication
Spring 2007
Week 9 - Making an International Zoo
Guidelines for Visit and Project
In the ninth week of class students, working in three groups of five students each, will go to the Kwacheon Zoo at Seoul Grand Park and create a detailed proposal for making the zoo a more international place.
Details
We will meet at the zoo at 11:00 on Friday the 27th of April. Buy your ticket and meet me just inside the gate. I will be going a bit earlier to set up and get things ready among other things. If you want to come early and take photos of animals with me feel free to do so. Call me at (016) 766-6089 when you arrive. Students will be split into three groups and each group will take a different path through the zoo. I will provide you with maps and directions to follow. All the groups will meet up at the back of the zoo at the South American Building where we will compare observations and suggestions. The entire time in the zoo is expected to take about two hours.
Specifics
Each group is going to have to create and submit a report. The report is due two weeks after the zoo visit on May 11. The report is to take the form of a proposal for the local government replete with suggestions for making the zoo a more international place. Obviously the brunt of the suggestions will be linguistic in nature but do not need to be confined to just language issues. It bears mentioning that a visit to the Seoul Grand Park website is a must for this project as well. You will need to include suggestions for the website as part of your report. I encourage you to go to th website in advance of our trip there just to get a feel for how it looks and how it might be layed out. You will probably want to bring a camera (maybe even a video camera) with you to gather photographic evidence and to help you remember details encountered over the course of the visit.
Aside from being merely a project I hope students enjoy this little outing and think of it a way of developing their awareness of environmental print as well as the globalization of Korea.