Final Reflections

1. I think my writing has improved. First of all, I did not have any oppurtunity to write something in English before this class. During this semester I wrote many writings of various types from simple writes to essays. I think I need to improve skills of writing logical structure.


2. I think my reading skills have improved through this semester. We handled various topics thus I got to know a wide vocabulary and expressions. We practiced to find topic sentences and thesis statements in writes thus I can recognize the write more correctly.


3. During this class many things has improved. One of the most outstanding thing is confidence. We discussed with others many times during this semester. I got used to explain my opinion and listen to other's opinion. To improve my English more, I will read again our textbook during this vacation. It contains many valuable informations.


4. At the first time, it was unfamiliar to me to use blogs for the class. Over time, I thought blog is very useful tool for our class. It is easy to write, easy to read and share opinions with other's writes. Reading classmates' blogs were very interesting. There were various opinions and ideas within same topics. I would continue blogging for write skills.


5. I learned so my things during this semester. It was a very useful class. If I could learn more, I want to practice more about what we learned-skills about reading and writing-in this semester.


6. There was no worst aspect of this class. Even though there was a little bit hardship because of progess:) it was very valuable class, sincerely. I would recommend this class to my friends.


7. I was so happy to meet you all. It was so interesting to share opinions with classmates and contents of the class was also great. Thank you Kyle, and everyone! Have a nice vacation and see you next time!

Essay #2-rewrites

Bona Kim

Prof. Kyle Brebner

IERW (03)

26 November 2015

The Reason All-girls Schools Should Continue To Exist

     Have you ever wondered about why single-sex schools exist? Especially there are many all-girls schools worldwide on nowadays. Some people say coeducation schools are better than   all-girls schools thus there is no more need for all-girls schools. However, even though coeducation schools have some strong points all-girls schools also have their own merit and the significance of existence. All-girls schools should continue to exist because they can alleviate sexual discrimination, nurture talented women more effectively, and there are valuable history of each schools.

      First of all, all-girls schools should remain to alleviate sexual discrimination because there is still male-dominated structure in our society. We need to understand clearly why girls’ schools exist. Girls’ schools were established to equalize educational opportunities. Girls’ schools were intended for girls who did not have enough chance for education compared to boys. While some people say there may be no discrimination of women anymore, many study results show that our society is still male-oriented. For example, according to World Economic Forum report “The Global Gender Gap Report 2015” Korea’s women educational attainment was 102^nd, wage differential was 116^th, and ranked 115^th overall of 145coutries. Since our society still maintains inequality like this, girls’ schools should be maintained to alleviate this inequality by educating women.

      Another reason that all-girls schools should continue to exist is girls’ schools can train women who have differentiated talent. All-girls schools have distinct feature of education. They try to maximize women’s strengths so customized learning that fits in with women’s feature is available. For example, Sungshin Women’s University has various expert job assistance programs for fields which women chiefly adopted such as professional secretary and stewardess. Also they have many programs named ‘woman-leadership’. Thus students can gain various worthy learning at their school. It will be hard to plan woman-oriented programs at coeducation schools because of issue of equality. In girls’ school, all members are women so they can experience various roles without consideration of gender role. Such as carrying luggage and stage installation, which mostly man-doing hard works are all done by women at all-girls schools. Also at coeducation schools men get roles of leader substantially but at all-girls schools everyone can get important roles. It helps to develop their independence and autonomy. Students become confident and talented women through those courses.

      Finally, all-girls schools should be maintained because they had a firm purpose of the establishment and their own history. Even though some people say all-girls schools might change into coeducation school, all-girls schools’ members still have their identity and pride of history. For instance, Sungshin Women’s University was tried to discussed changing the school name into “Sungshin University” in 2010. It seemed like the school was trying to change into a coeducation school, but graduates and students were absolutely opposed to that argument to protect their identity and history. Eventually the discussion came to naught. Most all-girls schools were established when the environment of absence of women’s rights. Thus their educational and cultural history is focused on women and their eventual purpose which has come from the start of schools is education for women. Girls’ schools should continue to educate talented women for the purpose of the establishment-training talented women without discrimination-and keeping their proud history of educational institutions of women.

      Over time, all-girls schools faced too many difficulties. Even though some people say there is no more need for women’s schools they clearly have many valuable abilities of women’s education. All-girls schools must remain and keep a long-last school brand and their private identity. They obviously will do a great job in developing excellent women thus it would connected to development of our society.