온라인 초등학교 정규 영어 수업에 대한 학습자의 만족도 분석

Abstract

Education has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to near-total closures of schools across Korea and around the world. To ensure that students would receive instruction during this global pandemic, Korean public schools shifted away from the in-person classroom and quickly adopted online instruction. This shift has led schools, teachers, parents, and students to adapt to online instruction. At the same time, many stakeholders have begun to question how students may perceive online education. Hence, this research set out to examine elementary students’ level of satisfaction with online EFL instruction in public elementary schools by collecting survey responses from 269 5th and 6th grade students after they had attended school approximately one month into the Spring 2020 semester. The study found that students were generally satisfied with online EFL instruction. However, they also expressed their dissatisfaction with instructional content, as well as aspects of their interaction and communication with their teachers. Furthermore, it was found that students needed assistance in navigating the Learning Management System in order to actively participate in instruction. Based on the findings taken from the survey, we discuss the implications for elementary EFL instruction to improve the quality of teachers’ instructional methods and communication with students.