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The Effects of Overseas Internships on Development of English Competence

해외인턴쉽의 영어능력 발전에 미치는 영향

  • Cha, Mi-Yang (College of General Education, Namseoul University)
  • 차미양 (남서울대학교 교양대학)
  • Received : 2018.11.28
  • Accepted : 2019.01.20
  • Published : 2019.01.28
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Abstract

In an attempt to shed light on the effects of overseas internships on foreign language development, this study investigated the differences in English compositions written by 10 Korean university students who joined an overseas internship program for 15 weeks. For data collection, the participants each wrote an English composition before and after the internship. Data collected was analyzed to discern differences in the two writings, and statistical analyses were carried out of the results. Results showed that the participants appeared to have attained lexical fluency, generating longer sentences embedded with multisyllabic, more diverse types, more complex and less redundant words in more complicated structures after the internship. This study revealed that overseas internships facilitated the growth of linguistic abilities. Korean SMEs need to enhance the global capacity of their human resources via overseas internships to strengthen their global competitiveness, apart from improving their industrial competencies such as productivity and product quality.

본 연구는 해외인턴쉽의 외국어능력 발전에 미치는 영향을 고찰하기 위해 15주간 해외인턴쉽 프로그램에 참여한 10명의 한국대학생들이 작성한 영작문의 변화를 조사하였다. 자료수집을 위해 참여학생들은 인턴쉽 전후로 영작문 하나씩을 작성하였다. 수집된 자료를 이용해 두 영작문의 구성요소 및 어휘 사용면의 변화들을 분석하였고, 이어 통계분석도 실시하였다. 본 논문의 결과에 의하면, 참가자들이 인턴쉽 이후에 더 많은 수의 문장들을 사용하였고, 문장들이 더 길어졌으며, 아울러 더 복잡한 구조의 문장을 생성한 것을 알 수 있다. 또한 어휘의 유창성과 사용능력이 증가하였고 문장 내에 다음절의 다양한 유형의 단어들이 사용되었다는 것을 알 수 있다. 본 연구는 해외인턴쉽이 외국어능력 향상에 유용하다는 것을 나타낸다. 따라서 글로벌 경쟁력 제고를 꾀하는 중소기업들은 생산성, 품질 등 산업적 능력 제고뿐만 아니라 해외인턴쉽과 같은 훈련프로그램을 통해 인적자원의 글로벌 역량도 강화할 필요가 있겠다.

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Table 1. Comparison of Writing Components

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Table 2. Comparison of Content Words

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