| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 兒童英語教育學系碩士班 === 98 === This study is aimed at investigating elementary school English teachers’ attitudes toward three English Villages: Chung-Li Village, Wun-Chang Village, and Happy Village. The scope of this study includes teaching content and foreign teachers, functions, design of one-day study tours, learning effectiveness, and cooperation between local English teachers and English Villages. The instruments of the study were a self-constructed questionnaire distributed through mails, and semi-structured interviews conducted in person and through telephones. The valid recollection rate of the questionnaires is 78.14% (397 copies). Twelve local English teachers participated in interviews.
The findings in this study are as following:
1. Local English teachers agreed positively on the teaching content and foreign teachers in English Villages.
2. Local English teachers agreed on the functions as providing students a venue of practicing English, and experiencing the English-only environment.
3. Local English teachers agreed on fifth and sixth graders as the most suitable ones to visit English Villages, but disagreed on the duration, times of visits, and grouping in one-day study tours.
4. Local English teachers agreed more on the effectiveness of enhancing learning motivation and cultural understanding than of facilitating listening skills, speaking skills, vocabulary learning, and providing a studying abroad experience.
5. Local English teachers agreed on necessities of previews and reviews, and of participating in workshops held by English Villages. They also agreed that both local English teachers and homeroom teachers are suitable for accompanying students to one-day study tours.
6. Most demographic variables did not have significant influences on local English teachers’ attitudes toward English Villages.
7. Local English teachers thought that the effectiveness of English Villages differ significantly on students with higher, medium, and lower English proficiency levels. English Villages were thought to benefit students with higher the most. Medium proficiency levels the second. Students with lower proficiency levels were benefited the least from one-day study tours.
Finally, in order to make English Villages more suitable for Taiwanese students, this study provided some suggestions for staff of English Villages, foreign teachers, and future researchers who would address the issue of English Villages.
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