온라인 기반 영어 학습에 대한 예비초등영어교사의 반응 연구

An analysis of pre-service primary school English teachers’ perceptions on online asynchronous English learning

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of online-based non face-to-face learning for university level students of teacher education, comparing it with the traditional face-to-face one. For this research goal, the researchers targeted and surveyed 90 students of a national university of education in order to investigate their perceptions on the online-based non-contact approach and to find out whether or not there is any difference between genders, year levels, and majors. To fully and better understand the students’ perceptions and opinions on the non face-to-face instruction, a student-focus group of 8 pre-service teachers has been created for collecting their voices. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used together in this study to solidify the reliability of the data analysis. The results of this study are summarized as follows: First, there was not a statistically significant difference between the traditional face-to-face instruction and the online-based non face-to-face one. Second, a statistically significant difference was found not in both year-levels and majors but in genders. Third, the participants by and large were satisfied with the effect of the online-based non face-to-face instruction but they clearly pointed out that the most serious problem of this non traditional approach results from the lack of sufficient interactions between teachers and students.