The Effectiveness of Three Different English Instruction Approaches

There have been a lot of reporting regarding continued problems of English education instructions in Korea because of too much emphasis on grammar-translation method. This study focuses on the effectiveness of three different English instruction approaches, Whole Language Approach (Whole), English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and E-mail for English Teaching (E-mail). The data were collected in May, 2017 by distributing survey questionnaire to the first and second year students in four classes in the Department of Tourism English at a selected university in Jeju. 12 questions in the questionnaire were used to measure how the participants perceived the importance of various goals regarding three different communication-based English instruction approaches, Whole Language Approach (Whole), English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and E-mail for English Teaching (E-mail). Participants in this study are most interested in Whole Language Approach (Whole) followed by English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and E-mail for English Teaching (E-mail).