These days, English proficiency has been regarded as a part of national competitiveness. As the interest in and passion for English education are getting higher, a divide in English education between individuals and high and low-income families are being intensified in terms of social, economical, cultural gaps and inequality. For this reason, short-term intensive English camps, which give students intensive and various activity-based English lessons, have been actively carried out in order to solve these problems by providing opportunities to participate in English camps to rural area''s elementary school students and urban low-income elementary school students.
The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of elementary school students'' participation in intensive English camps on their literacy and affective factors.
The results showed that by giving students various communication opportunities and motivation, short-term intensive English camps had a positive influence in affective factors in terms of interest, self-esteem, values, motivation and a feeling of uneasiness in learning and facilitated students'' early literary development through natural interactions in reading and writing
In order to achieve the original goals of short-term intensive English camps, which are to provide students with plenty of opportunities to expose English and to solve the divide in English education between rural and urban areas, the devise, continuous management, and participation of English programs that take into consideration learners'' needs and abilities should be guaranteed. Also early literary teaching such as spelling and word recognition should be carried out in addition to teaching receptive skills.
Furthermore, material and human resources such as English friendly environments like English classrooms, EPIK teachers, TALK students, and Multicultural immigrant women can be facilitated. Through specific and active uses of these resources, opportunities to expose English should be ensured as much as possible and the base giving students correct understandings of various foreign cultures should be provided.
The main goal of elementary school English education is to develop students'' basic communication skills. By reducing students'' anxiety in learning, raising students'' positive and active learning attitudes will be the first steps to achieve this goal.