초등영어교육 목표 설정의 과제

Setting realistic goals for the primary school English language program

The study examines recent literature on the effects of primary school English language education on the achievement of its goals and stresses a need to establish a set of more realistic goals for the language program. A review of the relevant literature revealed that the achievement of the affective goals of the primary school English language program has not been sustained throughout primary schooling whereas the attainment of the program's cognitive or communicative goals have been hardly assessed Particularly disturbing is the finding that pupils' interest and confidence in English consistently declines over the years. With due regard for the reality, the study proposes that the program's affective goals should be modified and that its cognitive or communicative goals should be made more realistic. How these can be best done should be one major task of future research on English language teaching at primary school.