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The main purpose of this paper is to review the issues related to the national curriculum and instructional practices for teaching written English in elementary schools and to suggest directions for the development of the elementary English curriculum. The paper first reviews and analyzes the theories and previous studies related to written English instruction. It also examines other countries’ elementary level foreign language curriculums. Based on these reviews and analyses, it is suggested that written language instruction should be introduced into the primary English curriculum at Grade 3 simultaneously with spoken language instruction. Furthermore, the contents and teaching approaches of written English curriculum should be changed to support students’ cognitive and linguistic development and to connect with the middle school English education. (JeonJu University · Seoul National
University of Education)