Taking a Ride on the Frightening Bicycle
Now that it is the Halloween season, it’s natural to start thinking about scary things, but it’s also easy to forget that some things aren’t scary anymore, even though they used to be very frightening when we were younger. For young children, a bicycle can be a very frightening thing: they very much want to learn how to ride it, they know it’s important to learn how to ride it, but they are naturally afraid to try. For this article, however, the bicycle is only a metaphor. The real topic of this article is the Korean students who are afraid to have conversations in English with foreigners.I us
- Prof. Daniel T. Parker
- 2010-11-08 18:53