초등 사이버 영어화상수업에서의 원어민 교사의 역할에 대한 연구

The study on the role of the native E-teachers in primary cyber English learning classes

Entering the 21st century, the world continues to change into a more global community with the help of communicative technology. It allows students who otherwise would not have the chance, to meet and study with native English speakers. As a part of the English language education policy, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Education and Research Information Service in Korea have supported this study to make the cyber English learning business successful for elementary students recruited from 5 schools located in 4 English specialized education districts. The purposes of this study are to: 1) find the lesson format of cyber English language teaching 2) examine the main roles of native cyber-English teachers in conducting computer mediated language teaching and 3) explore the main motivations for students in order to encourage them to be engaged in cyber learning. The results showed that native cyber English teachers used a variety of teaching techniques in order to carry out the cyber English teaching programme. In order to draw students’ attention, cyber English teachers mainly used numerous images, video clips, a message board, communicative techniques, a white board, and online testing. Native cyber English teachers also provided technical support, student management, repetition drills, mother language help, encouragement, various types of questioning practice, feedback on the performance, modeling, visualization, and instruction on cyber courtesy for their students. As a result of the survey, native teachers showed various opinions on the use of cyber English learning, lesson structure, improvement of learners’ competence, teaching materials, and the role of Korean teachers in cyber English learning.