The purpose of this study is to verify the effect that teaching styles of elementary school teachers have on English immersion and achievement, and also to clarify the teaching style of elementary school teachers that is desirable to improve English i...
The purpose of this study is to verify the effect that teaching styles of elementary school teachers have on English immersion and achievement, and also to clarify the teaching style of elementary school teachers that is desirable to improve English immersion and achievement of elementary school students. Subjects of this study were boys and girls in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade of elementary school in Gyunggi area, questionnaire made up with Likert 5-point scale was used for each variable as a measuring tool, and then finally total 262 questionnaires were applied to the analysis.
To measure the teaching style of elementary school English teachers, which is the independent variable of this study, it was classified into 5 subordinate factors; training and guiding behavior, social supporting behavior, democratic behavior, positive compensating behavior, and authoritative(absolute) behavior. Also the immersion was constructed with 3 subordinate factors; self-concept of English, learning attitude toward English, and learning habit toward English.
Statistical significance of collected data was verified within 5% of significance level with using SPSS 13.0. Firstly t-test and One-way ANOVA were conducted to examine the difference between the recognition of teaching styles of elementary school English teachers and the immersion depending on gender and grade, correlation analysis and multiple regression of Pearson were conducted to examine the relation between teaching style of English teachers, the immersion, and the achievement.
Conclusions deduced on the basis of this analysis are as follows.
First, social supporting behavior factor from among teaching styles of elementary school English teachers has positive influence on English immersion of elementary school students, whereas authoritative guiding behavior factor has negative influence.
Second, social supporting behavior factor from among teaching styles of elementary school English students has positive influence on the English achievement of elementary school students, whereas authoritative guiding behavior factor has negative influence.
Third, all factors of English self-concept, English learning attitude, and English learning habit which are the factors of immersion have significant positive (+) influence on the achievement of elementary school students, and it leads to the result that the achievement of elementary school students becomes higher as their English learning self-concept and attitude factor, and learning habit factors are better.