고등학교 영어평가 관련 이슈에 대한 교사들의 의견 조사 연구

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This study aimed to seek high school English teachers’ opinions on various issues related to classroom assessment in secondary school in Korea. For the purpose of this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with 21 high school English teachers from across the country. The results of the present study revealed that government’s assessment policies such as College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) have tremendous impact on English education at the classroom level. This calls for the need to consider including items directly assessing students’ productive skills (i.e., speaking and writing) in the English section of CSAT, given the expected positive washback effect on classroom practice. Another noteworthy point is that implementing speaking performance assessment in secondary school is considered difficult by many teachers due to some inherent issues associated with scoring students’ speaking performance (e.g., issues of reliability). Based on the results of this study, some suggestions on what needs to done to facilitate communicative English education in secondary school were made.

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