유아 대상 영어교육에 대한 교사의 인식 및 실태·방안에 관한 연구 = The Teachers′ Recognition, Reality and Alternatives on the English Education of Early Childhood

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is done to examine the present situations of the English Education for the Early childhood and teachers' understanding of it which is in practice at discretion for the children at their unfinished stage of learning their mother tongue, and through this examination to find out desirable methods and contents for the English Education for them.
For these purposes I choose following two subjects: First, what is the present situations of the English Education which is in practice at the Early childhood education institutions, and what is the teachers' understanding of it? Second, what are the problems in the English Education for the Early childhood, and are there any desirable suggestions?
For the research, many teachers at public or private kindergartens in S city, Y, K county in Gangwondo became the objects of inquiry. Especially 3 kindergarten teachers and 3 Elementary English teachers who are in full charge became the objects of intensive interviews and analyses.
The result shows that 76.9% of the kindergarten teachers among the objects of inquiry sympathize with the needs of the English Education for the Early childhood, 65.4% of the teachers agree on the English Education at kindergartens, and 60.3% of the kindergartens are already practicing English Education.
It also shows the kindergarten teachers' thinking that the English Education for the Early childhood should be integrated in a daily program like the other activities (44%), and that singing and playing games are preferably regarded as effective teaching methods, and English should be spoken mainly with the subsidiary use of the mother tongue in the classrooms, and that the adequate number of students should be less than 10.
On the teaching methods, they point out the lack of systematic contents, of the professional teaching abilities, and of the teaching methods. They prefer to make the English Education as an integrate activity along with the other activities, and to arouse children's interest by singing and playing games.
On the other hand, the intensive interviews with the kindergarten teachers and the elementary English teachers in full charge point out carefully that lots of problems could rise as the English Education is in practice without proper preparations.
So the English Education for the Early childhood which is in practice arbitrarily, in nonsystematic ways needs to be taken out of the matter of choice of individual education institutions for Early childhood or of the parents and to be discussed with the professionals of the Early childhood Education, of the English Education and the policy planners on the basis of the last 10 years of experiences of Elementary English Education. Through this process, the policy standards on the English Education for Early childhood can be set up.
Furthermore, scientific, administrative, and financial supports would be needed for reasonable plans in setting up the limitation of English Education for the normalization of English Education course, the improvements of teaching-learning methods, the development of effective teaching-learning resources, and the training of the teachers who will be in charge of English Education.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• 1. 연구의 필요성 및 목적 = 1
• 2. 연구의 문제 = 3
• 3. 연구의 제한점 = 3
• 4. 용어의 정의 = 3
• 가. 조기 영어교육 = 3
• 나. 유아 대상 영어교육 = 3
• Ⅱ. 이론적 배경 = 6
• 1. 조기 영어교육에 관한 이론 = 6
• 가. 조기 영어교육 찬성론 = 6
• 나. 조기 영어교육 반대론 = 10
• 2. 외국의 조기 외국어교육 현황 = 14
• 3. 선행연구 분석 = 15
• 가. 우리나라 영어교육의 역사 = 15
• 나. 유아 대상 영어교육의 실태와 인식 = 16
• 다. 조기 영어교육 효과에 대한 연구 = 18
• 라. 유아 대상 영어교육의 교수방법 및 내용 = 19
• Ⅲ. 연구방법 = 24
• 1. 연구의 대상 = 24
• 2. 연구 도구 및 방법 = 26
• 3. 연구절차 및 자료수집 = 27
• 4. 자료 처리 및 분석 = 27
• Ⅳ. 연구 결과 및 해석 = 29
• 1. 유아 대상 영어교육에 대한 인식 = 29
• 가. 설문 조사 분석 = 29
• 나. 면대면 조사 분석 = 32
• 다. 문제점 = 37
• 2. 유아교육기관에서의 영어교육 실태 = 37
• 가. 설문 조사 분석 = 37
• 나. 면대면 조사 분석 = 44
• 다. 문제점 = 45
• 3. 유아교육기관에서의 영어교육에 대한 인식 = 46
• 가. 설문조사 분석 = 46
• 나. 면대면 조사 분석 = 49
• 다. 문제점 = 53
• 4. 유아 대상 영어교육의 방안 = 54
• 가. 설문조사 분석 = 54
• 나. 면대면 조사 분석 = 59
• 다. 문제점 = 63
• Ⅴ. 논의 및 제언 = 65
• 1. 논의 = 65
• 2. 결론 및 제언 = 72
• 참고문헌 = 76
• 부록 1 = 80
• 부록 2 = 87
• 부록 3 = 89