Daily Dose: November 9

What’s an ESL burglary suspect? While I am deeply indebted to google news alerts on any and all news containing “esl”…find out what else this abbreviation abbreviates here.

The Korea Herald presents some solutions for improving English language instruction in schools.

The Korea Times comes forward with some EFL statistics.

Find out what open classes – where parents of young students sit in and observe – are like (and also how to illustrate a seal attacking a man).

The Ukrainian Monkey has returned to blogging – see what this Peace Corps Volunteer is up to now.

The Teacher In Sudan continues her adventure and raises the question: how much is a person “obligated” to adapt and to what extent should one push oneself to conform to (or present oneself as conforming to) local norms?