However, despite curriculum reform and passage of time. Linguistic barriers faced by Korean English language teachers in delivering communicative based activities leading to an over-reliance on the L1 (native language); a divergence in traditional instructional styles and subsequent students’ learning styles which have focused on structure, form, and grammar and a less structured.
The use of an inductive approach to teach grammar, vocabulary and phonology; insufficient exposure to correct L2 (target language) What this means to the English instructor at the college level is that students enter Freshman English courses with little experience in communicative language learning.