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Self-Introduction

With respect to my personality, I consider myself an introvert and also extravert through a life in the US and eventually to be open-minded, which I had learned and experienced the cultures, customs, traditions, manners, etiquette, and values of the US where I graduated high school and college and earned an Economics degree in 2007. The challenges of being ambitious, hard-work, effort, and courage, which approximately ten years of my youth were spent there, played an important role in my personality development in a positive way that I was able to treat others with kindness, respect, and love in a considerate manner through the interaction of people of different racial and ethnic groups.

I spent four or five years in my late twenties and early thirties working at variety groups of companies in Seoul and other industrial areas in South Korea where I could handle with many different kinds of tasks in the field such as International Trade, Marketing, Finance, Domestic Trade, and Accounting. However, after quite time passed, I could not found out any values that give my own lives meaning after commuting from work to home everyday, and after all, I realized that my personality didn’t match all these jobs. At this present moment, although I could understand the core principle of Economics through hard work, back in the old days, I thought that my personality didn’t match to the Economics major. Thus, I decided to return to school, known as Catholic Kwandong University in Gangwon-do Province, later in life as a transfer student in 2014, and obtained a Certificate of Secondary 2 Full-time Teacher.

Although I haven’t had any prior research with a professor, my work experiences and educational backgrounds in Economics and English Education have provided me with a strong and comprehensive understanding of English Education. I am actively involved with working in a wide variety of groups, and take an active role within the group in order for the collaborative group work well done. My hobbies are reading a book, to climb a mountain around my house, and watch the current general issues of the economy, healthcare, environment, society, and politics in the US through the Internet, especially on weekends.

By referring to the saying “Time goes fast”, I had the ironic thought that the speed of my learning is faster than time in which I felt like returning to the same lifetime in a past-life, with the exception of the environment where I can manage my time effectively, plan and organize my study schedule, in the school.

The experience in the US and South Korea was a unique opportunity to broaden my understanding and knowledge of improving performance in learning and to find out new ideas, thoughts, judgments, reasonings, insights and beliefs in the study which I can devote all my strength to maintain in an area where I can push myself forward.

Reasons for Application

I am honored to apply for the teaching job at Interantional Private School in Qingdao, China because I am passionately interested in syntax and the theory of English Education, the study of English Education gives me great pleasure, and my ultimate goal is to be an academic and make contributions to teaching and publish books related with English Education.

In syntax, I accidently picked up a book name called Radford’s Transformational Grammar, a first course, 1988 among other linguistic books. Even though I had a difficulty understanding the book, I started to read without any expectation, to be very interested in the logics, and enjoyed the way the author explained his observation, experiments, rules, principles and other relevant theories, in which, his assumption and generalization on the concept with a reasonable explanation drove me into thinking in a logical and analytical way, along with managing my school work.

In brief, mostly, dealing with a concept of x-bar theory, head and adjuncts, c-specifier position, alpha movement rules and finally reaching to Emonds’ structure-preserving constraint, which is supposed to be the main goal of the syntax, really motivated me the most to learn more about syntax, and to follow the dual degree program. Especially, when Radford indicated about the complement and adjunct, I continued to think to find out about other ways to distinguish the complement and adjunct instead of using their basic principle, which involves their location to the head, of which, eventually led me into studying deeply about the relationship between the complement and adjunct, which, in turn affected me greatly with feeling that the more I study the more I wanted to know about the syntax.

In the theory of English Education, my thoughts on the best method of teaching and learning through using Long’s interactional hypothesis in a social constructivist model of the second language acquisition and Daughty’s, the negotiation of meaning, have led me to pursue this degree involving intensive research in English Education from which I assume that they are closely related each other to produce the comprehensible input which leads to the language acquisition based on my observation, my personal experience, the particular circumstances and facts.

Lastly, my primary motivation of this application is that I believe that I could help learners express their inner creative potentialities, and teach my conceptions, abstractions, notions, ideas, knowledge and the learnt thoughts in the near future for the younger generations who can be a competitive, innovative, and creative in any places around the world where English is used.

To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing to apply for the primary school English teacher role at your school in Qingdao, China. I saw the job advertised on www.tefl.org and am available to start immediately.

I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Open University in 2018 and got my TEFL and child developmental psychology certificates in 2021. I also have a certificate in counselling skills, and I am a King's College London postgraduate student studying psychology and neuroscience of mental health distance learning.

I have always enjoyed working with children; I am working with a diverse group of children voluntarily teaching English as a second language, reading & creativity, and playgroups. I also did some mentoring with Project Scotland which I didn't include in my CV. I enjoy watching children learn and develop as they discover the world around them. Although the job didn't state the years of experience required, I believe that my voluntary experience working with children and the skills I have developed whilst studying give me a better understanding of children and would enable me to do a better job.

The children in my care are my priority, including their learning, safety, and general well-being. I encourage and support their curiosity to explore and promote social relationships because it helps facilitate their learning. Thus, I am flexible and adaptable to every aspect of their changing learning needs and open to learning and finding creative ways to do things. I go the extra mile to ensure that the children in my care are happy learners.

I am personable, energetic, fun, empathetic compassionate, and a great listener. I have general cultural awareness, with cross-cultural empathy & behavioural flexibility skills, as these are needed to build rapport & trust in people, creating a comfortable & fun environment for learning. I also understand the importance of parent-teacher relationships in fostering a robust learning environment for the developing child.

I am dedicated in all I do and reflective because it helps me grow both personally & professionally. I can work as part of a team as well as independently. I know how to manage my time and am flexible with covering for absences. I would make a great addition to your team if given the opportunity. I have attached my CV to this application for your review, and thank you in advance for your time.

I look forward to hearing from you.

With kind regards,
Rosemary Frost