국내 영어교육에서 English Literacy관련 연구동향 분석

The review on joural articles of English education related to English literacy studies

The present study is aimed at investigating the previous research findings about Englsih Listeracy (EL) of Korean EFL learners. In the study, 93 journal articles were collected from the journal of English Language and Literature and Teaching (ELLT). Then, the study conducted a statistical review with Freuqency Analysis (FA) to get the gist of collected journal articles. The collected data was categorized into participants, research method and topics. In addition, Content Analysis (CA) was follwed to ascertain which English literacies were dealt mostly among the journal articles. For the study, the term, EL is considered as functional literacy (FL), ciritical literacy (CL) and literacy for social practice (LSP) and they were analyzed respectively. In the findings, firstly, the descriptive information provides that ELLT mostly embraces the tertiary level of participants, teaching method and English writing competence. Secondly, the result of CA reported that FL related journal articles were mostly found in ELLT. Lastly, the study concludes the discussion with the further pedagogical implications of EL.