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Oh, Maria・Kang, Gyung Wook. “Three Provincial Eighth Graders’ Perceptions of Primary and Middle School English Education.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 38.1 (2012): 243-265. The present study is designed to explore three Korean eighth-grade students’ perceptions of primary and middle school English education. The informants were three students at P middle school located at a mid-size city in a southern provincial area. They were selected based on their English proficiency levels: the first one from a high-level class, the second from a intermediate-level class and the third from a low-level class. Three-time individual interview questions were asked mostly about their primary and secondary school English learning in and outside schools. Two researchers collaborated to voice-record, transcribe, analyze and eventually to triangulate the research study. The study results are as follows: First, three informants focus on English test scores as a main trigger of their English learning and they perceive that English is a way to get test scores; Second, all three informants perceive their primary and secondary school English learning quite negatively; Third, all three informants perceive that communicative-action-based English teaching is an effective English teaching method. Suggestions to improve Korean primary and secondary school English education were added. (Jeonju National University of Education・Maam Elementary School)