This study aims to review the studies about English education for children on the basis of the 7th National Curriculum, which lays great emphasis on the communicative competence, proficiency based learning, and culture based language learning.
Particularly for 3rd graders in elementary school, English class has been implemented in the regular curriculum since the 7th National Curriculum, and this change deserves the early childhood English education be vitalized and facilitated. In this study, through the journal of Modern English Education, the synthesis and analysis of the studies on English education for children are conducted and the research data are categorized by the aspects of research methods and relevant topics. As a result, most of the conducted research methods were surveys and experiments, and the main topics were related to the curriculum design and teaching methods. In addition, the suggestions to enforce the goal of the 7th National Curriculum are extended reading and writing courses to make the balance of four language skills, invitation of various teaching methods like the storytelling, digital textbook, and students’ portfolio, intensive teacher training program,and lastly the process based assessments tool for young learners.