Korean Mothers Attitudes and Motivations Toward Bilingual Education in ESL Context

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to explore Korean mothers’ perception of bilingual education (Korean and English) in an ESL context. For this purpose, I, the researcher of this study, established two research questions: 1) What are Korean mothers’ attitudes and motivations toward bilingual acquisition in an ESL context? 2) How do they support the bilingual education environment for their children at home? For data collection, I first conducted an in-depth review of the literature in bilingual education, and performed oral interviews with eight Korean mothers, whose children were attending a Korean school in the United States. I recorded all the interviews and later transcribed for analysis, following Charmaz’s synthesis model. The findings revealed that all the participants had favorable attitudes toward bilingual education. Furthermore, most of them preferred to preserve their heritage language, culture, and ethnic identity with integrative motivation rather than instrumental. Finally, they produced various home literacy practices based on more communicative language learning. Further research needs to explore the relationships between parents’ attitudes/motivations and their children’s academic performance in both bilingual and monolingual contexts.

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