조기 영어교육의 개선방안에 관한 연구 = (A) Study on the Reform Scheme of the Early English Education in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Today, English has become one of the most important means of communications throughout the global political, economical, social, cultural and learning fields in the world. Under such circumstances, the Korean Ministry of Education pronounced to teach English in the elementary schools in 1982. English has, therefore, been taught from the 3rd grade of the elementary schools as a regular course since 1997.
The primary objective of this thesis is to examine the present situation of the early English education in Korea and that in other countries in the world, and to suggest the directions improved for teaching English in the elementary schools of Korea, comparing the present early education of foreign language in the other countries with ours.
At this point, we try to prove that a number of theories and the actual cases, as mentioned in this paper, show that children are better equipped to learn English with efficiency than adults including even older children. The logical result of these theories and the actual examples is that younger children relatively have the natural ability to learn foreign language effectively.
In terms of these points of view, to offer better educational environment to our children, we should try to improve educational finances, the quality of English teachers, educational facilities, and teaching methods.
The last chapter, therefore, concludes this thesis by suggesting some desirable directions of the early English education in Korea. Some of them are as follows:
(1) Consistent educational policies should be established.
(2) Specialization of English teachers is needed.
(3) The improvement of the environment of education is required.
(4) The Eclectic Teaching Method for elementary school students is required.
(5) Differences between the western culture and our own culture should be taught.
(6) Reducing the number of students in a classroom should be considered as well.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차
• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• 1.1 연구의 필요성 및 목적 = 1
• 1.1.1 연구의 필요성 = 1
• 1.1.2 연구 목적 = 2
• Ⅱ. 조기 외국어교육의 이론적 고찰 = 3
• 2.1 조기 외국어교육의 정의 = 3
• 2.2 조기 외국어교육의 역사 = 4
• 2.3 조기 외국어교육의 배경 = 6
• 2.3.1 언어학적 관점 = 6
• 2.3.2 신경 · 생리학적 관점 = 8
• 2.3.3 사회 · 심리 · 문화적 관점 = 9
• 2.3.4 인지론적 관점 = 12
• 2.4 조기 외국어교육 찬성론과 반대론 = 13
• 2.4.1 찬성론 = 13
• 2.4.2 반대론 = 16
• 2.5 각국의 조기 외국어교육 현황 = 18
• 2.5.1 외국 현황 = 19
• 2.5.2 국내 현황 = 23
• Ⅲ. 조기 영어교육에 활용될 수 있는 교수법 = 25
• 3.1 직접식 교수법(Direct Method) = 25
• 3.2 청화식 교수법(Audiolingual Method) = 27
• 3.3 전신반응 교수법(Total Physical Response Method) = 28
• 3.4 자연적 접근법(Natural Approach) = 29
• 3.5 절충식 교수법(Eclectic Method) = 31
• Ⅳ. 조기 영어교육의 성공요인과 개선방안 = 32
• 4.1 EFL과 ESL의 초기 영어교육환경 비교 = 33
• 4.2 바람직한 교사와 지도방법 = 39
• 4.3 학습교재 = 46
• 4.4 교육환경 = 47
• Ⅴ. 결론 = 48
• 참고문헌 = 51
• Abstract = 54