초등 영어 학습자 요구 조사 연구

Needs analysis on primary school English learners

This study reports the survey results on the needs of primary school English learners who are receiving private instruction. A nation-wide questionnaire survey was carried out, and a total of 1,214 learners took part in the study, including their 235 parents. The results showed that the learners had both instrumental and integrative motivation in their purposes of learning English. Their preferred methods of learning English were studying through game, computer, video and the Internet. Their most favorite topics were animals and games. Interestingly, the learners preferred topics related to introducing Korea to those related to describing English speaking countries. This topic preference was different from that of 1,467 primary school learners who participated in the needs analysis in 1995 about a decade ago. The overall results suggest that it should be necessary for the needs analysts, especially who are planning a national curriculum, to consider the needs of this particular group of learners for the betterment of a nation-wide primary school English education.