The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between elementary school students’ self-confidence in English as a foreign language and their assessment of English teaching taught by native speaker English teachers. A total of 126 elementary school students were asked on a 5-point Likert scale instrument to assess their native English teachers in terms of their teaching ability, provision of opportunity to use English, classroom management, and language assessment ability. In addition, the subjects were asked to rate how much they were confident with their English. All of the responses were submitted to the SPSS 22 version for statistical analyses. Firstly, the subjects were divided into 3 groups based on how much they felt confident with their English. Secondly, a MANOVA was run to investigate any group differences in how they perceive their native speaker teachers’ teaching ability, provision of opportunity, and language assessment ability. The results indicated that language confidence was indeed an important variable not only in subjects’ learning English but also how they perceived their English learning experience as a whole. Pedagogical implications for improving elementary school children were also discussed.

본 연구는 다문화가정 자녀들의 사회 적응행동에 관한 기초자료를 제공하고자 서울, 경기 지역의 다문화가정 유아 181명을 대상으로 또래 및 교사관계에 대하여 살펴보았다. 연구결과 다문화가정 유아의 또래 관계는 성별, 출생순위, 모학력에 따라서, 교사와의 관계는 성별과 출생순위, 월평균수입에 따라 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 다문화가정 유아의 또래관계와 교사관계 간에는 정적 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 다문화가정 유아와 교사의 관계가 원만할수록 또래 관계도 잘 할 수 있음을 유추할 수 있게 한다. 이와 아울러 다문화가정 유아들의 원만한 사회 적응 행동을 고양하기 위해 다문화가정 유아를 담당하는 유아교사의 유의한 교육적 중재를 통해 긍정적인 또래 관계 능력을 신장시킬 수 있음을 시사한다.