세계영어(World Englishes)와 국제공용 영어 문법 자질의 수용 가능성에 대한 중등 예비 영어교사들의 인식 조사 = A study on secondary school pre-service English teachers’ perceptions toward World Englishes and acceptability of common lexical and grammatical features of ELF

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The present study examines Korean secondary school pre-service English teachers’ perceptions about World Englishes and the acceptability of common grammatical features of ELF. 64 students who are enrolled in the department of English education at a college of education in Seoul participated in this study through an online survey. The results of the study showed the participants’ very positive attitude toward World Englishes. Even though they still showed preference for American or British English as standard English, a majority of the pre-service English teachers recognized the necessity of teaching diverse types of Englishes in schools and acknowledged the ownership of English as belonging to all the speakers of English, whether native or non-native. The participants of the study, who are secondary school pre-service English teachers, also showed positive about the acceptability of the common grammatical features of ELF, except two features (the confusing use of relative pronouns and the overuse of general verbs like do, make, take, etc.). A comparison between the participants who were aware of the concept of World Englishes and those who were not revealed a significant difference only in the perception of dropping the third person singular present tense morpheme -s. Based on the findings, some pedagogical implications and suggestions, and possible future research directions regarding World Englishes are presented.