Friday 4:00 - 4:50 

In many Korean institutional settings, students are encouraged to learn language in a piecemeal, "teaching the test" fashion. If English is going to be learned for productive application, the focus of the classroom needs to become more oriented in favor of the student's communicative needs. In response to that, the English Intensive Course (EIC) was developed as a 4- week, 5-day, 4-hour per day language program under the auspices of 
in Korea. The presentation focus is to demonstrate validity of the underlying philosophical approach assumed by EIC: "Comprehension precedes communication". 
Program goals described include: (1) developing creativity; (2) developing student-led conversation; (3) developing a system which enables students to teach themselves after the course; (4) developing an effective evaluation system which describes student performance in terms of global proficiency in all language skills, but at the same measures the salience of classroom information; (5) developing a system of upgrading course effectiveness and relevance continuously.