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A case study of Hongik English Immersion Program (홍익대학교 영어캠프 운영 사례연구)

  • Park, Yoen-Mee
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.67-89
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    • 2001
  • This paper is to introduce assorted features of a four-week English Immersion Program managed by Hongik English Language Institute for the first time in summer 2000. The program was aimed to provide English learners with the English simulation environment where everything was supposed to be English only. Thus being exposed exclusively to the English surroundings the clock around, the learners who had not had enough opportunities to use the language were able to attain a high motivation for speaking English, which eventually led to the increase of their general English language proficiency. Presenting merits and demerits of the curriculum and the overall management of the program, this paper plays a role in directing the program in a more improved way for the future and giving guidelines to other institutes where similar programs are under consideration.

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Chinua Achebe's Contributions to the Expansion of the English Language:A Look at "African" English Literature Exploring Ibo Language and Proverbs (치누아 아체베(Chinua Achebe)의 영문 소설 외연 확장에 대한 기여에 관한 연구: "아프리카" 영문 소설에서의 이보 언어 및 속담 사용을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Young-Eun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.12
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    • pp.525-536
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    • 2017
  • One of Africa's most accomplished writer, Chinua Achebe is not only known to have to contributed to writing a renowned folk literature but to contributing to the expansion of the English language. This research paper seeks to explore Achebe's most widely read novel "Things Fall Apart" and his 1 other novel and analyze how the incorporation and purposeful use of Ibo words, proverbs and phrases contribute to not only conveying the rich African experience but expanding the English language.

Relationships between the Use of ESL Learning Strategies and English Language Proficiency of Asian Students

  • Kang, Sung-Woo
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • no.5
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    • pp.1-25
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    • 1999
  • The objective of the present study was to model the relationships between language learning strategy use and language proficiency among the Asian (Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese) students studying English in the United States. The instruments were a language learning strategy Questionnaire and the Institutional Testing Program Test of English as a Foreign Language (ITP TOEFL). Structural equation modeling was utilized to model the relationships between language learning strategies and language proficiency. The present study found only weak relationships between language learning strategies and language proficiency. Only 13% and 15% of variance of the listening and grammar/reading factor were explained by the language learning strategies. The metacognitive strategies appeared not to have direct relationships to the language skill factors, as was found in other studies (Purpura, 1996, 1997). The effects of the social and affective strategies were very small. They in combination could account about 1% and 4% of the variance of the listening and grammar/reading factors.

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Strategies for effective team teaching between Korean teachers of English and native English teachers (원어민과 내국인 영어교사의 효율적 팀티칭을 위한 단계별 협동 전략 기초연구)

  • Kim, Young-Mi
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.177-201
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to create step by step guidelines for effective team teaching between Korean teachers of English and native English teachers in Korea. Although team teaching has been used from 1995 in the teaching of English in Korea, the effectiveness of team teaching has not been as high as we have hoped. An important reason for this failure is the lack of communication between the Korean teachers of English and the native English teachers. More specifically, the failure has resulted from not only a lack of opportunities for these teachers to communicate but also a lack of guidelines and strategies for improved intercultural communication between teachers from different cultural backgrounds. This study provides step by step guidelines for how to set up communication time, what to share, and how to set up effective team teaching in English education.

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Production of English final stops by Korean speakers

  • Kim, Jungyeon
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2018
  • This study reports on a production experiment designed to investigate how Korean speaking learners of English produce English forms ending in stops. In a repetition experiment, Korean participants listened to English nonce words ending in a stop and repeated what they heard. English speakers were recruited for the same task as a control group. The experimental result indicated that the transcriptions of the Korean productions by English native speakers showed vowel insertion in only 3% of productions although the pronunciation of English final stops showed that noise intervals after the closure of final stops were significantly longer for Korean speakers than for English speakers. This finding is inconsistent with the loanword data where 49% of words showed vowel insertion. It is also not compatible with the perceptual similarity approach, which predicts that because Korean speakers accurately perceive an English final stop as a final consonant, they will insert a vowel to make the English sound more similar to the Korean sound.

The importance of interlanguage in teaching English as a foreign language (영어교육에서 중간언어의 중요성)

  • Park, Kyung-Ja
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • no.6
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    • pp.113-142
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    • 2000
  • In order to obtain a better understanding of L2 learners, transitional knowledges, it is very important and necessary to have a better knowledge of interlanguage. According to Corder, the role of interlanguage in English education holds significance to (1) for language teachers, (2) for language learners themselves, and (3) for language textbook compilers. To me the significance of interlanguage in English education can be described in terms of not only language teachers, learners themselves, textbook writers and compilers but pure linguists, applied linguists, school authorities as well as parents. For language learners themselves a clear understanding of interlanguage results in students being receptive to language input, and the avoidance of mental block, and low levels of foreign language anxiety. Native speakers of English (NSE) reflect not only linguistic features but also psychological, socio-linguistic, and discourse features when engaged in communication activities. This means that L2 learners are introduced to these different features, especially pragmatic features which are different from their mother tongue or L1 when engaged in communication with NSE. Hence the importance of interlanguage pragmatics should be recognized. It is very important that teachers of English should have a better understanding of interlanguage and present L2 learners with their interlanguage features so they can avoid any misunderstandings such features may cause when conversing with NSS. It should also be noted that interlanguage can form the foundation of language acquisition theory and linguistic analysis.

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Acoustic Analysis of Koreans' Production Errors in English - with reference to nasalization and lateralization (한국인 화자의 영어 발음 오류에 관한 음향적 분석 - 비음화와 설측음화를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Mi-Hye;Kang, Sun-Mi;Kim, Kee-Ho
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2008
  • This paper examined the acoustic differences in English speech production between English native speakers and Korean learners. Korean speakers seem to produce errors by over-applying the Korean phonological rules(nasalization and lateralization) to English speech under the conditions comparable to those of Korean which contain nasal+lateral or lateral+nasal sequences. Being based on this prediction, the experimental data is grouped into three sets, [n]+[l] sequence, [l]+[n]sequence, and [m]+[l] sequence. The result shows that, Korean speakers usually nasalize or lateralize the target words or phrases in every three categories while English natives don't. In set A([n]+[l] sequence), both nasalization and lateralization were found in [n]+[l] sequence, the same circumstances where both nasalization and lateralization can be placed as in Korean. In the case of set B([l]+[n] sequence), only lateralization is observed. It is because the nasalization never occurs in the sequence of l-n in Korean. There is no lateralization in set C([m]+[l] sequence), because only nasalization occurs in the sequence of m-l in Korean. This results reconfirmed that the nasalization and lateralization rules in Korean deeply influence on the English production data. Korean speakers need to be taught not to over-apply Korean phonological rule to English production for accurate pronunciation.

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A Study on the International Business English focusing on Reading (읽기를 중심으로 한 무역영어에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Eun-Ok
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.36
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    • pp.173-194
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this article is primarily to give prominence to the importance of International Business English education. Although English is one of the most crucial parts in international business transaction it has not been treated as one of academical sciences. As English is a main language when the international business transaction is done International Business English should be studied by scholars who majored in international business area. It is true that there has been no study at all regarding International Business English(in this article, it does not mean General International Business English) so far. Anyone who does and learn the international business should have some opportunities to have a contact towards international business correspondence and other documents before they do in reality. However, in Korea, most English education has been focused on general English and English certificate tests at universities. At universities' level, it is certainly a scholars' task to study International Business English education in order to provide decent education to the students. For doing so, this article examine, focusing only on reading part, how International Business English should be taught and especially, how reading skills should be activated and integrated with other language skills. This objective will be fulfilled by asking, what reading means in International Business English, as well as what role reading plays in International Business English education.

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Korea-Japan English Camp: A Case Study of English Immersion Program in Korea

  • Park, Joo-Kyung
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.91-115
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    • 2006
  • English immersion has emerged in Korea only recently as an innovative approach to learning and teaching English. Lack of real life experience of using English has been one of the biggest obstacles for Korean learners of English and has resulted in an increasing number of children being sent to English-speaking countries and a huge amount of dollar outflow. This recent innovation is expected to be the magic wand to resolve all these problems. However, setting up an immersion program in a typical EFL context like Korea has brought in another set of issues and challenges. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of a short-term immersion English program in Korea and provide some empirical data to develop programs that can better cater to the needs of EFL learners. A two-week English immersion program was developed and implemented with 57 Korean and Japanese students whose grade level ranged from 4 to 12. The study results show that the program was successful in terms of changing the participants' attitude toward learning English, improving their English skills, enhancing intercultural understanding and competence, and motivating them for further studies of English and other foreign languages and cultures.

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A Study on the Planing of the Learning Space of Elementary School Corresponding English Learning Activities (초등학교 영어 교수·학습활동에 대응한 학습공간 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Byung-Kwan;Oh, Hyoung-Seok;Kim, Joong-Hun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.3538-3549
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    • 2013
  • This study focuses the architectural planning solution and guiding principle for English only classroom spatial layout and operation program to establish English educational environment proper to English curriculum contents and methodology by the grade level of elementary school. To accomplish this purpose of the study, this study proceeds as follows. First, the English facility condition such as type of classroom, retainment and floor space were researched and analyzed through the nationwide survey for elementary schools to understand English educational environment. Second, the study analyzes English educational procedures, contents and methodology and most typical educational scenes, facilities and equipments are extracted through the analysis. Finally, the study pursues the spatial layout factors and proposes the architectural planning principle for English only classroom to provide English educational environment per its size and type.