| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 英語學系 === 92 === This study aims to investigate the pre-school English teachers’use and perceptions of the currently adopted pre-school English textbooks in Tainan City. The recruited
subjects were 144 English teachers from 55 private registered pre-school institutions including 25 kindergartens and 30 nursery schools in Tainan City.
The primary findings are summarized as follows:
1. The top three widely utilized pre-school English textbooks are Disney (Disney), Melody (Doughnut), and Snoopy (Snoopy Kids’English).
2. The principals (72.2%) are the primary decision-makers of the textbook selection.
3. The most ideal way of generating textbooks is made by a group of English teachers(74.3%).
4. Difficulty level (28.9%), supplementary materials (23.1%), and the contents (20.6%)are teachers’ three main ionnsiderations for selecting textbooks.
5. On the whole, the majority of the teachers are satisfied with the print and layout (85.4%), the contents (77.8%), and teachers’ manuals of their textbooks (71.5%).
The items that teachers are the least pleased with are the students’ workbooks (63.2%) and the supplementary materials and teaching aids (61.1%).
6. Most of the teachers (85.5%) feel their pupils are
interested in the textbooks. A few teachers (13.2%) think the textbooks appeal to their pupils only slightly. 1.4% of the teachers don’t think the textbooks interest their pupils.
7. A great portion of the teachers (95.9%) follow the extbooks while teaching.
8. Almost all of the teachers (91.1%) focus their instruction on practicing both listening and speaking skills.
9. Only about twenty-four percent of the teachers (24.3%) use computer resources as teaching aids in English teaching.
10. A large proportion of the teachers (91.4%) use interactive CDs as computer resources while few teachers (8.6%) use the Internet as a computer resource to find teaching websites.
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