English language teaching in elementarγ school was proposed and is now in practice on the basis of the Critical Period Hypothesis which is also theoretically supported by innatists who argue that UG begins attrition around puberty and that language acquisition becomes increasingly difficult beyond this period. This was proved true of first language acquisition and naturalistic SLA, but no evidence has been known about instructed second language leaming in formal education. Elementary school ELT is supported by some parents who wish their children to leam this world language effectively, but the educational environment is far from utilizing the leamers' UG: few teachers are capable of providing authentic input, so the leamers depend on their general intelligence and leaming strategy rather than UG. It is suggested that high school age is optimum for utilizing leamers' motivation, intelligence, and leaming strategy.

The Chinese characters education for the elementary school students in Korea had been officially forbidden in its exercise because of the Exclusive KOREAN Usage Policy until the few cities and provinces had begun to activate the school discretion time(學校 아량 時間) during The 6th Curriculum period. However, such program had also been neglected for the English texts due to the worldwide expansion progressive movement of the civilian government: so, THE 7th Curriculum had also been unable to establish a legal foundation executing the Chinese characters education. Some says that we can initiate the Chinese characters education through the free time activity(雅量 活動). However, Ministry of EDUCATION & Human Resources Development is currently advising a creative method of educational operation rather than performing the elementary school students free time activity with textbook formats. An abstract about the Chinese characters education must be discussed based upon the Chinese characters curriculum in the elementary school education. However, the nationalized curriculum has not yet been created and it is difficult to find its reference. Only, we can look over the Chinese characters education of elementary school students through the Chinese Characters Curriculum in Elementary Schools standardized by Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education: the content is as follows, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education explains the Chinese characters education evaluation in elementary schools divided in large areas of evaluation index, evaluation method, and activities of the evaluation outcomes. First, the evaluation index is located as limited fields of Chinese characters(漢字), language(漢字語), and words/phrases(漢字語句) for the elementary school students while the evaluation direction is described to avoid flowing in to grammar or knowledge evaluation. Second, the evaluation method is to be balanced in each areas lesson contexts Chinese characters, language, and words/phrases: but, the Chinese characters evaluation must include suggesting in relation to the format(形), sound(音), and meaning(義) while the language evaluation must show the daily linguistic skills, and the words/phrases focused upon understanding the meaning and its comprehension. Third, the Chinese characters education evaluation of elementary schools should not only be used in achieving the students advancement in their academic performance but also the instruction/teaching methods for the Chinese education. The 7th Curriculum is the student-oriented Curriculum based upon independence and creativity. Therefore, the evaluation method must have a thorough, alternative plan suited for such spirit. This is not the end result-centered evaluation but rather it should shift its gear towards the learning-centered evaluation. For such occurrence, the teachers instructional and teaching method needs to be progressed according to the students-oriented activity education rather than of the one that is teacher-oriented. Moreover, a profound improvement planning is requested for the education department for the elementary school Chinese education as with The 7th Curriculum being activated. In order to successfully pursue the students-oriented education that the Curriculum program appoints to, the free time activity operation needs to be expanded of its liberality. Additionally, the nationalized level of Chinese characters education process in elementary school that coincides with The 7th Curriculum program must be prepared as well.

The purpose of this study was to survey the concern for health, nutrition knowledge, and nutritional attitude of the elementary school children's mothers, to investigate the correlations among them, and to estimate their effects on the growth of their children. The questionnaire was answered by 780 mothers in the Busan area. The concerns over health and nutritional attitude were above average in all items. The perception and accuracy with respect to nutrition knowledge were 90.3% and 77.0%, respectively, and the mean score of the nutrition knowledge was 17.5 on a basis of twenty-five. This indicates that the subjects had a comparatively deep concern for health and good knowledge of nutrition, and professed a relatively desirable attitude. These results indicate a desirable dietary attitude for children as well as parents. The correlation coefficients between nutrition knowledge and a concern for health, and between nutrition knowledge and nutritional attitude were very low. This suggests that the subjects' knowledge of nutrition does not develop into practice. The correlation coefficient was high (r=.610) between the concern for health and the nutritional attitude. In conclusion, the nutrition education program for mothers should be developed to add good practice to knowledge, thus increasing the concern for health, correcting their faulty knowledge of nutrition, teaching the good nutrition, and taking a practical attitude toward the use of their present nutritional knowledge.

This study was performed to investigate the perception and the preference of Korean traditional foods such as traditional holiday foods, rice cakes and beverages. The subjects were 598 elementary school students(male 310, female 288) in fifth or sixth grades. The most favorite traditional holiday food was rice cake soup(57.4%) and 92.4% of subjects wanted to keep the traditional holiday foods because of the traditional custom. The traditional beverages mainly drinking at home were sikhye(35.6%), misugalou(30.2%), green tea(18.5%), etc. Children's most favorite beverage was misugalou(90.5%) and they had no taste for ginseng tea(39.6%). Children did not know well about booggumi(64.1%), dootubdduk(63.3%), whajun(39.6%), etc. and liked gguldduk(94.2%) better than the others. They liked the rice cake because of its good taste(69.0%) and disliked it because of chocking(30.9%), not eating frequently(29.5%), hard and tough(18.2%), and so on. And they wanted to make the rice cake softer and sweeter like the cake and mostly ate it on the traditional holidays.

The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting earth science problem-solving performances of elementary school pre-service teachers. The participants of the study were 81 students attending an elementary school teacher education university. The instruments of the study were paper-and-pencil tests, questionnaires, and interviews. The tests mainly measured the participants' problem solving abilities in the motions of the moon and the planets. Correlation and multiple regression techniques were used for data analysis. The results demonstrated that the pre-service teachers' problem solving abilities were low. Problem-solving performances were affected by the procedural knowledge, the participants' perception of the past earth science performance, self-efficacy, and the prerequisite declarative knowledge. Contrary to our expectation, the spatial visualization ability was not found to be related to the problem-solving performances. Implications of the study are drawn, and suggestions are made for further research.