초등교사의 영어구사능력 : 초등영어교재 속의 구문을 중심으로

Oral communicative abilities of elementary school teachers in English: On the sentences in the Elementary School English Textbooks

The purpose of this study was to investigate English speaking abilities of elementary school teachers. To evaluate their communicative abilities, 20 elementary school teachers were selected as the subjects. One or two sentences from each unit of Elementary English 5 and Elementary English 6 depending on the communicative function and twenty sentences of classroom English were chosen and translated into Korean. The Korean sentences were presented one at a time. The subjects translated what they read and their interpretations were recorded The English native speaker transcribed what she heard. Their communicative abilities were evaluated in terms of 5 categories of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and comprehensibility, of which the rating scale ranged from I to 5. And their errors of speaking were analyzed. The results of this study were as follows: First, their oral proficiency was not a good level with the mean score of 3.80. Second, the mean score of pronunciation recorded the highest point, followed by those of vocabulary, comprehensibility, fluency, and grammar in order. Third, their frequent grammatical errors were believed to come from interference of Korean language structure. Finally, many errors to hinder communication in the category of pronunciation and vocabulary were not found.