고등학생과 영어 교사의 영어 학습에 대한 신념 차이

Highschool Students’and Their Teachers’ English Learning Beliefs

The purpose of this study was to identify Korean high school students’ beliefs about English learning and to compare them with Korean high school teachers’ beliefs. A total of 300 students(160 boys, 140 girls) and 17 teachers(11 male, 6 female) at a school completed a questionnaire containing 35 items. The result produced five underlying construct; nature of learning English, aptitude for learning English, difficulty of learning English, strategy for learning English and motivation of learning English. Learners believed that it was difficult to learning English but anybody could learn it. However, they believed that they didn’t have good ability to learn English and they had extrinsic motivation for learning English. And some believes of learners corresponded with teachers’, but the others did not. Based on the findings, pedagogical implications to improve English instruction were suggested.