The purpose of this study was to understand and examine how effective instruction is
provided in Korean heritage schools. Although there are 1,200 Korean heritage schools and
60,000 students across the United States (Lee and Shin, 2008), not many studies were found
about instruction in Korean heritage schools. For this study, data was collected through a
survey of 200 heritage Korean teachers and 8 classroom observations. The surveys were
analyzed to examine both the teachers’ beliefs on corrective feedback for their instruction and
their actual practice in the classrooms. The results indicate that the teachers are aware of the
importance of implicit corrections for communicative approaches for young learners in their
classes; however, they use a limited number of implicit corrections such as confirmation checks
or clarification requests. Rather, they use more explicit corrective feedback including
grammatical explanation or overt error correction. Explicit feedback was preferred by the
teachers because of their Korean cultural and educational background as well as the objectives
of the lessons which emphasized grammar and spelling.