초등학교 3학년 학생들의 영어 능력 실태 조사

The purpose of this study is to investigate 3rd grade elementary school students' English ability at the beginning of their first semester. For the study, 100 schools were selected through stratified cluster sampling by administrative regions such as metropolitan cities, middle size cities and rural towns. A total of 2,420 third grade elementary school students participated. The English ability test was developed based on the elementary 3rd and 4th year national English curriculum, and the test was implemented at the 3rd week of March, 2015. The students’average test score was 16.87 out of 23 and the standard deviation was 5.25. The results showed that many of the 3rd grade students who are beginning to learn English as a regular subject in school already have reached the objectives of 3rd an 4th year English curriculum through preceding experience of learning English. Based on the findings, suggestions for enhancing English education at elementary school were made.