유아영어교육에 대한 학부모 만족도 영향요인 분석

A study on parents’ satisfaction with early English language education

Korean parents are well known for their enthusiasm to teach English to their children, even though there is huge academic controversy on the effects of teaching English at early ages. More emphasis on English education by the new administration in Korea stimulated the parents’ keen interest on their children’s early English education. But the problem here is that the early English education is not initiated by the voluntary action of the children but by the wishes of their parents. An educational institution is also decided according to their parents’ standards. Accordingly, the selection of an institution is determined by the parent’s satisfaction with English education. With this in mind, in this study we tried to analyze the decisive factors on the parents’ satisfaction with their children’s English education. Survey results in this study found that the parents’ decisions are mostly influenced by combination of several factors. This result showed that the most critical factor was the involvement of parents and their trust on the teachers. We have to admit that this research is limited in that it was conducted only the parents’ satisfaction, the region of survey is limited to Chonan city area in Chungnam province, and that we did not conduct a qualitative research such as an interview. We hope that further research on this subject will contribute to the general application of this study.