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South Korea ranked 21st among 54 countries in the English proficiency index, indicating its people’s English-language skills are “moderate,” a global survey showed.
EF Englishtown, an education company, released its second survey for the year 2012, which asked 1.7 m people over three years in 54 countries to take a free online test.
The respondents were more urban and younger than the general population, the survey noted.
English proficiency was graded on five levels -- very high, high, moderate, low and very low.
Sweden topped the global list with 68.9 out of 100, followed by Denmark with 67.9 and the Netherlands with 66.3. The top 10 countries were all in Europe.
Among twelve Asian countries, Singapore scored the highest index with 58.6 and Malaysia came in second with 57.9 -- the two countries both have English as an official language.
South Korea ranked highest among Asian countries where English is not an official language. It scored 55.3, closely followed by Japan with 55.1. China ranked 36th overall with 49, with its people’s English proficiency classed as “low.”
By gender, South Korean women scored the highest, 56.4, among their counterparts in Japan, China and the rest of Asia, while Japanese men scored the highest with 54.5, followed by South Korean men with 54.1 and Chinese men with 47.5.
Within South Korea, North Gyeongsang Province showed the highest proficiency with 58.7, while North Jeolla and South Gyeongsang Province had the lowest scores with 53.3 and 52.6, respectively. Seoul’s index was moderate with 57.1.
The EF’s report noted that South Korea and Japan lack efficiency in English education despite a strong desire for high English-language skills.
The report attributed the two countries’ English education failure to robotic memorization, lack of exposure to foreigners and rare dialogue practices resulting from hierarchical relations between teachers and students.
[Written by Kim Yoon-mi)
Source: thekoreaherald
Can we turn this into a cute/funny idol English moments post? My contribution:
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Date: 2012-11-06 04:02 am (UTC)"Full House" was just epic all over.
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Date: 2012-11-06 04:04 am (UTC)Ga-in telling a guy that she wants to kiss him and take a dump on his chest (:42)
And Kwon... missing the mark with a certain English word
And who can ever forget this one?
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Date: 2012-11-06 04:09 am (UTC)Re: And who can ever forget this one?
Date: 2012-11-06 04:10 am (UTC)Idols what can speak proper english
Date: 2012-11-06 04:14 am (UTC)I legit don't even know where to start with horrific english cos well, it's pretty much omnipresent in kpop all the way down from advertising, song writing and the idols themselves so can we have honourary a commendable english post?
Setting aside Tiffany, Jessica, Nicole etc. Native english speaking Idols, who do you think has aquired good use of the Language
Sandara
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Key
Onew
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Date: 2012-11-06 04:14 am (UTC)South Korea ranked highest among Asian countries where English is not an official language.
No. English is not Malaysia's official language. It's Malay Language. So South Korea shouldn't be ranked highest among Asian countries where English is not an official language, no? This survey...
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Date: 2012-11-06 04:16 am (UTC)One for the history books
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