The Effects of Global Citizenship Education in Elementary English Education (English Language Teaching; Vol. 31, No.4)

 The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of global citizenship education which mainly focused on 'values, perceptions and attitudes' at the elementary school level. This study used pre- and post self-evaluation sheets to examine the effects of global citizenship program that was applied into an elementary school English classes for 5 months. Teaching materials, including teaching plans were developed based on the current elementary school textbook. Queries of the self-evaluation sheet were designed to identify student's global citizenship demonstrated in English classes. The self-evaluation test results were collected from 116 elementary school students in the experimental group and 120 elementary school students in the control group. The results implied that the global citizenship education could be meaningfully and successfully applied into English classes at the elementary school level. The research data showed that the global citizenship program has positively influenced students' cognition in terms of their interests in the world peace pursuit and the measures for the relief. The data also presented that students perceived English learning as the necessity of understanding world cultures.