조기영어교육 실태조사 연구 = A Survey of the Primary English Teaching

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

<Abstract>The purposes of the present study were to find out the problems in the primary English
education by doing research on the actual conditions, and to provide some suggestions
for them to improve their educational effects. The areas of the present study are as
follows: first, at what year is the best time for the primary English education to start,
second, how many hours are proper for the student to take in a week, third, where is
the best place for the primary English teacher to be trained, fourth, whether the
English teachers are satisfied with their training contents or not, fifth, which educational
situation they have or what kinds of educational instruments their schools have; sixth,
what they think about the contents of the text books, and seventh, what the responses
of the students learning English are.
As a result of the present study, it shows that there are many problems in the English
education of the elementary schools. So, the present study suggests some
improvements or solutions as follows. First, the best time to teach English to the
primary school students is the 3rd grade, in other words, as present. Second, the 2
hours of English class are also to exist as present. Third, children should be taught by
competent English teachers: and the opportunities of English training for the teachers
should be given whenever they want. Fourth, the evaluation report of text book should
make out by teachers, then the publisher of text should change their next text. Fifth,
each school has to get a multimedia system, such as a language laboratory and
computer system. Sixth, the number of students in a class should be cut down.
Finally the English education of the elementary school in Korea has been enforced under
the poor circumstances in their administrative and financial policy and has been founded
to have many problems within them. So this study will be helpful in solving and to
improving the problems of the present primary English education.