The Problems and Coping Strategies of ImplementingEnglish Program in Private Preschools

• Main Authors: Yu-hsueh Chang, 張玉雪
• Other Authors: Yi-chuan Lee Tsay
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31913182423778122028

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 幼兒保育系碩士班 === 95 === The purpose of the study was to know what problems the private kindergartens and child care centers encounter and the coping strategies when carrying out English instruction. The research questions were: (1) What is the motivation of implementing English curriculum? (2) What are the ways of implementing English curriculum? (3) What are the problems while implementing the English program? (4) What are the coping strategies? The design of the study consists of Qualitative methodologies .And the research takes interview method and observation method as main research way. The participants of the study are six private kindergartens and child care centers. The researcher has collected the data through personal depth interviews, focus-group interviews and observation records for one year. The results of the analysis are as follows: 1.The main motivations of carrying out the English instruction at the six private kindergartens and child care centers are current tendency, parents’ needs, and the pressure of recruiting new students. 2.In the process of carrying out the English instruction, the problems which the six private kindergartens and child care centers meet are parents’ myths, the alteration of teachers, the choosing of teaching materials, the indistinctness of the policy, and the English abilities of the learners. 3.They can use the strategies of communication and coordination, giving autonomy to English teachers, sharing strategic decisions one another, cultivating and training English teachers, searching for supports, and the solution of analyzing to solve the problems they meet. According to the discoveries and the results of the study, the suggestions that the researcher offers are as follows: 1.The authorities should base on the actual situations to draw up the goals and the directions about the activities of instruction proceeding among the infusing English teaching as possible as possible. After setting up the explicit direction and policies, the preschool institutions will have a definite standard to be obedient to 2.The government and the educational departments should make long-term plans for early childhood English instruction, including the plans for English teacher training, and teaching materials. 3.The institutes of education or the government should convey the correct concepts of learning English through all different kinds of channels and ways such as mass media, newspapers, magazines and etc to the mass population. 4.Because infusing English instruction is allowed and early childhood teachers can use it to teach children English, the institutions of training teachers should strengthen the English abilities of the department of early childhood development and education and let them carry the burdens of works in the future.