중등영어교육의 실태와 효율적인 영어교육 개선방안

The Current State and Efficient Suggestions to Improve on English Education of the Secondary School

The purpose of this study is to overview English teaching activities in order to enhance the communication competence of students with the perspective of an English teacher in secondary school and suggest a few methods to improve our English teaching circumstances by dealing with critical matters to get rid of the barriers related to the educational system in Korea. The argument provided throughout this paper is that as a means of solving these problems with our English language education as well as English education policy, the Ministry of Education and provincial school boards should provide English teachers with intensive teacher training programs tailored to suit the teachers' needs continuously. Some examples would be to allow study abroad courses for teachers improve their communicative competence in English. Another subject that must be addressed is to consider necessities to revise other difficulties of the 7th national curriculum and syllabus in addition to the problems about the contents of textbooks made without thinking over the real school situations and recruit more native speakers to create an atmosphere more conductive to use English. As an English teaching model of secondary school, TETE by Korean teachers in Korean settings will be a very desirable form of the class for teaching English even though there are still major difficulties in TETE in terms of language proficiency and confidence of English teachers. This paper deals with a few suggestions to carry out an effective TETE class,: like making a classroom with the proper class size for the communicative competence, developing useful and helpful teaching materials for class, sharing the more realistic information with reference to teacher's experiences toward the communication and fluency in the pattern of teaching method, and by also introducing English education using CALL connected with an immersion program.