Using Educational Technology to Implement Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol® for Asian Business/Computer Students

President Lee Myung-Bak\´s initiative regarding Korean schools teaching all subjects in English by 2010 may have been temporarily hamstrung by, among others, Korean teachers fearful for their job security, but ultimately this goal will prove to be not only a boon to but also inevitable for the country\´s continued economic growth. Currently, most college/university teachers and students alike in Korea are admittedly unprepared for an efficacious combination of content (e.g., computer science) and language (i.e., English) instruction. Researchers at a renowned "vocational college" near Seoul believe they have the solution to this problem: using educational technology to implement a customized version of Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOPreg), a methodology widely used to teach subject content in English to speakers of other languages. Although SIOPreg is not necessarily by design dependent on educational technology utilization, techniques involving hardware/software applications are recommended for several reasons, just one of them being cost effectiveness. SIOPreg\´s eight major components are used as a structure for identifying both the most pressing problems and promising solutions. The majority, if not all, of these findings should, via extrapolation and especially customization, be useful to Asian and indeed all schools facing similar difficulties regarding Business/Technology Teaching In English (BTTIE).