영문법 교수ㆍ학습에 대한 중등 영어교사 및 학습자 인식 조사

A Study on Secondary School Teachers" and Students" Perceptons of English Grammar Instruction

  The present study has sought to investigate secondary school teachers" and students" perceptions of English grammar instruction. Specifically, it examined whether and how teachers" and students" perceptions differ in terms of the role of English grammar instruction and effective grammar instructional approaches. To this end, 129 teachers and 141 students at secondary schools in Busan were asked to respond to a closed (Likert-scale) questionnaire whose reliability and construct validity were examined through reliability analysis and factor analysis, respectively. The major findings from chi-square analyses are summarized as follows: (1) The student respondents were less positive about the role of grammar in improving English ability than the teachers; (2) both students and teachers preferred explicit instruction to implicit one and acknowledged the importance of controlled practices as well as communicative activities; and (3) the students were in favor of deductive rule instruction, whereas the teachers" responses varied. Pedagogical implications and directions for future research are discussed.