스마트 원격 영어수업 프로그램의 운영 효과 분석

An analysis of the effectiveness of an online smart English teaching program

The online smart English teaching program is kind of a video-conference type two-way English teaching system, in which one Korean teacher, one native-English speaking teacher, and a dozen of students interact real time through internet. The purpose of this research is to analyze the effectiveness of the online smart English teaching program implemented by the Kyungnam Office of Education in 2013. To achieve the purpose, a questionnaire was implemented to the main stakeholders such as students, parents, native English teachers and Korean English teachers who were involved in the program. The responses from 74 teachers and 1,080 students were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Most respondents demonstrated their satisfaction about the program. In particular, both teachers and students were generally satisfied with the provision of a variety of interesting activities, and of the real-time speaking opportunities with the native English teachers. On the other hand, the respondents were rather unsatisfied with the learning materials, and with the way of placing the students of different level in the same class. On the basis of the analysis, the current paper suggests that some points discussed in the paper ought to be rectified and improved in order to achieve the original purpose of the online smart English teaching program.