초등영어교육의 스토리텔링 연구 동향 분석

The purpose of this study is to explore the research trends of storytelling studies in elementary English education since 1997 when the English subject was first introduced to the national elementary curriculum. Thus we examined all the papers with respect to storytelling published in the three academic journals named as Elementary English Education, English Education and Foreign Language Education for 18 years to 2014. We collected 52 papers and classified them in terms of the researcher’s purposes, methods, topics and the cognitive and affective domains on a yearly basis. To catch the overall tendency of those 52 researches we used descriptive statistics. We first browsed through all of them and looked into any patterns. The papers were grouped in terms of the study objectives and the study objects to see their changes. We categorized them on their types of method including experimental research, survey, qualitative, development, and literature study. We identified some key words that could cover all the purposes of the 52 papers, summed up as learning materials, teaching methods, and research objectives. Finally, we further examined the affective domain that was subdivided into self-confidence, difficulty, participation, attention, interest, and utility, to see how many individual papers focused on which affective domain of children.