Survey on the Attainment Target of Foreign Language Achievement at the Secondary School Level in Foreign Countries

本次调查的目的是访问一些外国，并获得一套外语成就目标的教育意义。我们访问的国家如下：那些制定了具体目标的国家（英国、荷兰、法国、美国），一些亚洲国家（韩国、中国、新加坡），他们大多采用与我们相似的教育制度。在这些国家，我们获得了一些关于实现目标、测试方法和方法论的材料和信息，并对这些文件进行了分析。在欧洲国家和美国，我们得到了一些关于标准制定方法的详细信息。我们发现这些方法包括“直觉方法”、“定性方法”和“定量方法”。在已经引入英语教育的亚洲国家，中国和新加坡已经制定了具体的成绩目标。我们了解到韩国在中学非常重视第二外语教育。本次调查的第一个含义是了解标准制定的方法学知识，这对我们的试验非常有用。我们应该很快开始这一进程的第一步。第二个含义是国家间成就目标比较的可能性，通过这种比较，我们将为提高中学英语教育水平提供有价值的数据。

The aim of this survey is to visit some foreign countries and gain educational implications on the set of attainment targets of foreign language achievement. The countries we visited are as follows; those which developed concrete targets (England, Holland, France, US), some Asian countries, most of which adopt similar educational system as ours (Korea, China, Singapore). In those countries we gained some materials and information on the attainment target, test method and methodology and we made an analysis of those documents.In European countries and US, we got some detailed information on the methods of standard setting. We found that those include 'Intuitive methods', 'Qualitative methods', and 'Quantitative methods. In Asian countries, where English language education has already been introduced, they already had concrete attainment targets in China and Singapore. We learned Korea emphasizes the second foreign language education in the secondary schools.The first implication of this survey is to have the knowledge of methodology on standard setting, which is of great use to our trial. We should set about the first step of the process quite soon. The second implication is the probability of the comparison in attainment targets among countries, through which we will have a valuable data for the improvement of English language education at the secondary school level.