Analysis of the Korean high school students’ educational achievement and affective features in the years of 2019 to 2021

The present study was designed to look into the tendency of the educational achievements and the affective features of Korean high school students on the English language from 2019 to 2021 under the revised 2015 national curriculum. In order to serve the purpose of the current research, student performance was analyzed based on the four performance levels of the four language skills and on such competencies as English communication and knowledge-information processing skills. The results showed that the performance of the students in the top two achievement levels especially on the speaking skill had fallen as far as over fifteen percentage points from 2019 to 2021. In addition, concerning the perceptions on the English language, the participating students tended to have thirty to forty percentage points less self-efficacy and interest than value and learning motivation. In sum, a wide variety of supporting policies need to be developed in order to make up for the lowered English speaking skills and to help those in lower achievement levels improve their English language ability as well as increase their self-efficacy and interest in English.