영어 친화적인 교실환경이 초등학교 EFL 학습자들의 정의적 요인 및 어휘력에 미치는 영향

The effects of an English-friendly classroom environment on EFL elementary school students’ affective factors and their vocabulary ability

  The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of an English-friendly classroom environment on elementary school students’ affective factors and their vocabulary ability. A total of one hundred seventy-five students participated in this study, and out of them, sixty students were divided into two groups, an experimental group and a control group. The instrumentations used in this study were a questionnaire for examining the subjects’ affective factors and a vocabulary test. The results of this study were as follows. First, providing an English-friendly classroom environment had positive effects on the elementary school students’ affective factors. Second, providing an English-friendly classroom environment caused a significant enhancement of the elementary school students’ vocabulary ability. Third, low-level students in the experimental group showed more enhancement in their vocabulary ability than high-level students in the same group. However, there was no significant enhancement in the control group. There is, therefore, a significant need for providing our elementary school students with an English-friendly classroom environment.