초등예비교사의 초등영어 교과서 대화문 구사능력

Pre-service primary school teachers" English speaking abilities shown at their verbal translations of English textbook dialogues

  The purpose of this study was to investigate English speaking abilities of the students of the teachers" university. To evaluate their communicative abilities, 20 college students were selected as the subjects. Dialogues from each unit of Elementary English 5 and Elementary English 6 depending on the communicative functions were chosen and translated into Korean. The dialogues translated into Korean were presented one at a time. The subjects translated Korean Dialogues into English orally and their interpretations were recorded. The English native speaker transcribed their verbal translations. Their speaking abilities were evaluated in terms of 3 categories of accuracy, fluency, and comprehensibility, of which the rating scale ranged from 1 to 5. And the errors of their verbal translations were analyzed. The results of this study were as follows: First, their speaking abilities were a good level with the mean score of 4.32. Second, the mean score of comprehensibility recorded the highest point, followed by those of fluency and accuracy in order. Third, their frequent grammatical errors were omitting article, pronoun, verb, preposition, and so on. Finally, many errors were not found in the domains of pronunciation and vocabulary.