영어받아쓰기 지도가 지체장애 학생의 영어듣기능력과 영어학습동기 향상에 미치는 효과

The Effects of Dictation Instruction on Improving English Listening Skill and Motivation of the Middle School Students with Physical Disabilities

This study has a purpose of providing foundational data in order for the middle school students with physical disabilities to get more efficient and appropriate English education, by executing a dictation learning program for those students as a study subject so as to grope for the improvement of their English listening skill and motivation. This study used a test method pre-and post-test design, with the subject of three third-year students at the E middle school for students with physical disabilities in G City, from June 4th till July 24th of 2007, to find out if the dictation learning program had improved the students’ English listening skill and motivation. As a tool for testing their English listening skills pre-and post-test design, 20 questions were used, which had been extracted from the English Listening Evaluation Sheet jointly managed by the 15 Ministries of Education (City-Province) nationwide. The tool for testing their English learning motivations pre-and post-test design was designed by modifying and complementing the ELMS of Ha, Jong-sun(2004). The dictation learning program consists of four types, and each of them used five different dictation test sheets which had been designed. The results acquired from this study are as follows. First, it is proved that applying dictation to the English learning activities has a positive effect on improving listening skill. As students take dictation constantly, they can have the discrimination of sounds, the receptive capacity of sounds, and the skill that connects sounds with spelling, so their overall listening skill can be improved. Secondly, listening practice through dictation improves the learners’ motivation to learn English. It was proved that as the number of the practice performed increases, the learners like learning English more.