ICT를 활용한 초등영어 학년별 과제 선호도에 관한 연구

A study of ICT task preferences of elementary school English learners

  Use of the ICT(Information & Communications Technology) education is carried into effect starting from year 2001 as a part of the improvement in teaching and learning of English and other subject matters. In this study, English has been taught assigning various tasks and materials according to learners" task types and the task processes have been observed and surveyed Also, the results have been ana1ysed to investigate the influence factors on learners" task preferences by students" grades and gender. For this purpose, this study sampled 557 students in order to compare the preferences by grade and gender. Major findings analysed by students" preferences are as follows: Using concrete objects during given pedagogic task was preferred by third graders. The same task wasn"t preferred by fifth and sixth graders. In contrast searching and analyzing the information were preferred by fifth and sixth graders since their preference on tasks appears to be on logical and creative thinking rather than simple operation and repetitive activities. Playing a game using the ICT was most preferred by all graders. Role-playing using the ICT wasn"t preferred by fifth graders. E-mail and writing notes activities were preferred by fourth, fifth and sixth graders.