Korean alum takes the cake with idiom textbook

diomatic expressions really drove alum Andrew Ha ’67 up a wall. So this assistant professor of teacher education at The State University of New York College at Potsdam decided to take matters into his own hands—to the benefit of many Koreans.

Ha has written a book for Koreans learning to speak English called The Key to Reading Comprehension. The book specifically deals with the problems of idiomatic expressions, and is aimed at high school-level students.

Idiomatic expressions cannot be literally translated into other languages, which makes learning to speak English more difficult. Ha found a need for this book because many Koreans were having comprehension problems.

Ha is already at work on a second hook aimed at elementary school children learning to speak English.

from fall ’95