대학 교양영어 수업에서의 원어민교수와 비원어민 교수에 대한 학생들의 인식 및 태도 연구

A Study on University Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes toward Native English Speaking Teachers and Non-Native English Speaking Teachers

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what Korean university students think of their Native English Speaking Teachers (NEST) and Non-Native English Speaking Teachers(NNEST). In order to evaluate this, 756 students attending a university in a local area of South Korea participated in this study and were asked to answer the questionnaires about the attitudes toward NEST and NNEST. The students were divided into three groups according to their English levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. The results of the analysis show that, generally, the students prefer learning from NEST rather than NNEST but they show the strongest preference for learning from both NEST and NNEST when they are offered the opportunity to learn from both. The participants in this study think that the most important characteristic of a good English teacher is the ability to give clear explanations and to take efficient control of the class. There were no statistically significant differences between the three student ability levels in their responses about the attitude towards NEST and NNEST. Students want to learn English courses such as speaking, listening and reading from NEST and to learn English courses such as grammar and writing from NNEST. This appears to be the same in all three levels.