유아기의 조기영어교육에 관한 조사 연구 = Research of English Education in Early Childhood

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

ABSTRACT

Keeping pace with the world wide reformation for internationalization,
most Korean college graduates face the chronic problem of the language
barrier that they have tried to master English for about ten years at
schools, where English has been taught to communicate with foreigners.
It is true that we can't speak and write well enough to communicate
with Americans.

That is why the Government decides to instruct English at elementary
schools from the year of 1997. It is shown that speaking and listening
are crucial to English instruction, especially in the ages under thirteen
years old in which LAD (Language Aquisition Device) is very active to
get the mother tongue. Also this fact is proved and accepted generally.
So it is necessary to take some measures to overcome that problem.
Now Korean pre-schoolers and elementary students can learn English at
their institutions, but there are the other problems happened to them.

Most students at institutions are apt to be taught English without
enough preparations and researches. In that situation, it is necessary to
develop a model instruction guide which fits each level of children.
Therefore, this study examined theories and references on early English
education. It also performed the opinion poll about the early English
education and analyzed the results about it, and the followings are the
examined subjects for this pre-schoolers' English learning

1. How is the present situation of English education for them ?
2. What do teachers and parents think of early English education ?
3. What is the method for that education ?
4. What is the programs for it ?

To proceed this projects, the questionnaires were sent to 105
kindergartens and lOlquestionnaires were returned. The first questions
are whether each kindergarten is now teaching English or not, and what
the purpose of teaching English is, and if not, what the reasons are.
First, answers explain as the following : the most of them is now
teaching English ; they teach English at home and at the institutions,
and with private tutors for the ages of 5, 6, and 7 years old.
Second, the opinions for the purpose of teaching at institutions and
homes are various ". for the effectiveness of the early age learning ; for
the early acquisition of the colloquial English ; for the advantage of
widening the sensibility toward the world ; for the benefit of studying
in advance for the elementary school.In the other side, as for the reasons against teaching English, there
are different views ; of thinking much of the mother tongue rather than
English ; of worrying over a wrong instruction without well-trained
teachers ; of being afraid of the confusion of the language developing
system with children, they contend that they are not ready to learn
English.
Third, as for the teaching methods, they point out the reasons ;
teaching English in their school hours, by English teachers, using
games, songs and dances, picture cards to provocate their interest
homes. The methods are mainly plays so they can not teach English
individually. At homes, parents can teach their children at their leisure
time. Some say that they play English videos for children, and some let
substitute teachers work with them with institution test materials.
Fourth, as for the education contents at institutions, listening and
speaking are mainly used in the class. For supplementary materials,
audio tapes, video tapes, and picture books are employed. Meanwhile,
at homes, speaking and listening are mostly used for English education
: parents also take advantage of tape recorder(45,5%i), and imitating
the teachers' pronunciations, and imitating the pronunciations of native
speakers at language institutes.
Considering the examined facts above, I would like to suggest the
effective ways for pre-schoolers English education. To keep pace with
glottalization education, English should be included in the
kindergarten's curriculum and continue to research for better instruction
for pre-schoolers. Then, it is necessary for the government to support
for the kindergarten's language education because the pre-schoolers can
learn more than on language at that early age. Thus, English teaching
should be started from first grade at the elementary schools so that
pre-schoolers may continue to learn English.

It is very urgent not only to create English texts for pre-schoolers and
elementary students, but also it is necessary for English teachers to
have training courses.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I.서 론
• 1.연구의 필요성 및 목적
• 2.연구 문제
• II. 조기 영어교육의 이론적 배경
• 1.유아의 영어습득 능력
• 2.유아들의 조기영어학습에 대한 반대이론
• 3.조기 영어교육의 세계적 동행
• 4.유아의 조기영어 힉습방안
• III . 연구방법
• 1.연구대상
• 2.연구도구
• 3.조사실시 및 자료처리
• IV. 결과 및 해석
• 1.유아기의 영어교육 실시 현황
• 2.유아기의 조기영어교육에 대한 의견은 어떠한가.
• 3.유아기의 조기영어교육 방법은 어뗘힌가
• 4.유아기의 조기영어교육 내용은 어떠한가
• V. 요약 및 결론