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The
North Korean EFL Journal
Welcome to the North Korean EFL Journal. This Journal is a unique futuristic look into what will be a developing area of EFL, namely North Korea as it engages in English education for its academics, teachers and students. The Journal is the sister journal to the long established Asian EFL Journal, Linguistics Journal and Asian ESP Journal. We look forward to having you as a regular reader and or contributor.
Submissions
for 2008 - 2009 editions welcome.
1st edition January 2009
EFL is the acronym for English as a Foreign Language. EFL is taught in countries where English is not the mother tongue. Countries such as the Philippines is an ESL (English as a Second Language) country .
North Korea shares the Korean language with South Korea. There are dialect differences within both Koreas, but the border between North and South does not represent a major linguistic boundary. The adoption of modern terms from foreign languages has been limited in North Korea, while prevalent in the South. Both Koreas share the Hangul writing system, called Chosongul in North Korea. The official Romanization differs in the two countries, with North Korea using a slightly modified McCune-Reischauer system.
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