Korea Two - Text
Korean female, born 1968 in Seoul. At the time of recording, 4/4/00, the subject had been living in various cities in the United States for over 7 years. She speaks here of receiving university degrees in Chicago and San Francisco before deciding to pursue another degree at the University of Kansas in speech pathology. Her original master's degree is in the teaching of English as a foreign language, and she expresses her concern for the way her language may affect her future career in speech pathology. Sample recorded and edited by Erica Reisig. Running time: 00:05:30.
Transcription of Unscripted Speech
Mm, I wanna tell...something about my..history..umm...umm..how I came here...umm at KU and studying here...umm..from Korea. Umm, in 1996, August, I enrolled myself at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...umm...at the Department of Teaching English as a Second Language. Umm...at the time I was doing my master's degree at the Department in Teaching English as a Second Language, and after a year of studying undergraduate program, I became interested in speech and language pathology instead of teaching English as a Second Language, and I decided to..change my major. And I talked with the ladies in the department of speech and hearing at the University of Illinois and umm..to discuss about my decisions and my intentions, and the possibility of the transfer umm..between...the...different depar--departments. But um...they couldn't deal with foreign students who has...foreign accents in their program and...that really bothered them...umm...because they couldn't accept other Eng--English which has different accents, other than midwestern American accent. So uh, I--they implied that it is impossible for me to uh, get into the program, and I was really discouraged, but they told me that there might be some opportunities in California. So well, I decided okay I'll go to...California. And anyway, I finished my degree, master's degree in teaching English as a Second Language at UIUC which is the University of Illinois...and then I applied to umm...the Department of Speech and Hearing in many other schools in many other states...but I kind of felt that...maybe the school in California could be the only school that accept me. Well anyway, I got a letter from California, and from uh..here Kansas, University of Kansas..and I was very hesitating to go to any school in midwest mm..because I was just simply afraid of my being foreign student in their program, and I was really intimidated. But the secretary in the Uni--KU, in that department, was pretty nice and umm..so I had a kind of good impression, but I decided to go to California where I feel more comfortable. So I went to California and I did my umm..post-baccalaureate in speech and language..and hearing, and I really enjoyed the experience, and I was very encouraged to pursue my dream and vision in speech path to become a speech and language pathologist and also a researcher...and I...after that year um, of taking all prerequisites to become a graduate student in the field I di--I realized that I can try going back to midwest and to be..to learn more and..I really wanted to learn in an excellent program--although it's gonna be obviously hard. So I asked people around about my thoughts and they were all encouraging me to go to harder place umm...and then well umm I didn't apply to many schools but...anyway um, I got an accept--tio--uhh..admit--admission from KU again umm...and I thought uh, there might be some job opportunities on campus so that I can work and study at the same time...with my limited amount of money left over, so I flew back--not flew--I drove back from California to Kansas by myself uh, with all my stuff, and...I'm now...umm...a graduate student at KU.
Unscripted speech Transcribed by Faith Harvey 27 February 2008