TEE 정책 하의 수업 방식에 대한 연구

Abstract

In 2001, the South Korean Ministry of Education enacted the Teaching English in English (TEE) policy, which as its name suggests requires English teachers to carry out English classes through the medium of English. This policy marked a radical shift in how teachers should be teaching English. In this paper, I present an ethnographic account from the first semester of 2011 of how three elementary school English teachers interpreted and implemented the Teaching English in English (TEE) policy in the classroom over the course of one semester. I describe and analyze what the classroom practices of the students and teachers looked like based on participant observations and complement these interpretations with interview data and fieldnotes from a larger qualitative study. The findings indicate the wide variation in how the three teachers carried out the policy according to their own as well as their students’ English proficiency, their teaching philosophies, and the contextual factors of their classroom.