• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.209-216
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• 2005

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of web-based cyber instruction on EFL learning from the viewpoint of learners` perceptions and needs. Data was collected through a questionnaire survey that was carried out with 709 undergraduate student enrolled in three cyber English courses offered at N university during the secind semester in 2004. The results of the study indicated that the learners exhibited a positive attitude towards web-based cyber instruction and considered it a paper educational method in the cyber age. However, the students perceived that web-based cyber instruction was not greatly satisfactory in terms of cultivating their English communicative competence or improving the language skills they needed. It was also found that cyber instruction was still teacher-dominant, lacking in interaction, which made the students passive recipients of informaton presented. In comparison with off-line instruction, cyber instruction was not particularly better in enhancing their motivation interest or concentration on class. To be more effective, cyber instruction needs to be equipped not only with a large variety of contents and class activities, but also with more exposure to authentic language by native English speakers. The finding of the investigation yield some implications for the design and development of web-based cyber EFL programs.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권7호
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• pp.1873-1880
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• 1997

다중 문자 환경의 문서인식 시스템에서 문자를 인식하기 전에 문자의 종류를 먼저 구분하는 것은 인식률의 향상에 중요한 요인이 된다. 각 나라의 문자는 그 문자마다 고유의 구성상의 다양한 특징을 가진다. 본 연구에서는, 문자를 구분하기 위한 방법으로 획 밀도 값을 이용하였고, 대상 문자는 한글과 영문으로 한정하였다. 다양한 형태의 활자가 사용되는 문서에 적용하기 위해 입력 데이터는 정규화 과정을 거친 후 처리되었다. 제안된 방법은 90% 이상의 높은 확률로 한영 구분이 가능함을 실험 결과로써 입증하였다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.181-187
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• 2021

According to Joseph Campbell, there is always a similar pattern in the hero myth, which is called hero's journey. The legends about Cuchulain, the great Irish warrior, also follow this pattern. W. B. Yeats adapts the legends into his plays with Cuchulain as the protagonist. This paper discusses the protagonist's heroic journey in the five Cuchulain plays written by Yeats. In the five plays, Cuchulain grows, matures, weakens, dies, and resurrects, completing and meanwhile sublimating his heroic journey. In At the Hawk's Well, Cuchulain shows potential qualities of a hero. The Green Helmet displays his self-growth through the depiction of his heroic merits which make him a true hero. In On Baile's Strand, the hero suffers from the major frustrations and tribulations in his heroic journey and is stricken down consequently. The Only Jealousy of Emer reflects the hero's inner struggle and vulnerability. The last play, The Death of Cuchulainn, marks the end and reincarnation of the hero's life. Through the depiction of Cuchulain's heroic journey in the five plays, his heroic qualities are well demonstrated. Meanwhile, Yeats's views of heroism can be found as well.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2018

Pitch trajectories reflect a continuous variation of vocal fold movements over time. This study examined the pitch trajectories of English vowels produced by 139 American English speakers, statistically analyzing their trajectories using the Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMMs). First, Praat was used to read the sound data of Hillenbrand et al. (1995). A pitch analysis script was then prepared, and six pitch values at the corresponding time points within each vowel segment were collected and checked. The results showed that the group of men produced the lowest pitch trajectories, followed by the groups of women, boys, then girls. The density line showed a bimodal distribution. The pitch values at the six corresponding time points formed a single dip, which changed gradually across the vowel segment from 204 to 193 to 196 Hz. The normality tests performed on the pitch data rejected the null hypothesis. Nonparametric tests were therefore conducted to discover the significant differences in the values among the four groups. The GAMMs, which analyzed all the pitch data, produced significant results among the pitch values at the six corresponding time points but not between the two groups of boys and girls. The GAMMs also revealed that the two groups were significantly different only at the first and second time points. Accordingly, the methodology of this study and its findings may be applicable to future studies comparing curvilinear data sets elicited by experimental conditions.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제39권
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• pp.407-432
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• 2015

This study focuses on the flow of story and content or related context when using movies as learning materials in a class. A great advantage of using movies is that they have a consistent story and detailed content development. Most teachers, however, tend to concentrate on practical expressions totally unrelated to the story or context of the movie they are using. This way might be efficient in the short run but it is certain that the expressions are unlikely to be retained in long-term memory. This study examines how a story-centered class influences learning of practical expressions and how efficient this approach to learning is. Learning and teaching with focus only on the expressions in a movie shades the meaning of the use of the movie a little. In this study the movie, Cars 2, was used in a course of general education with 150 students enrolled. Various group activities were suggested to immerse students into the story and contents of Cars 2. It was found that a story-centered class is helpful for students to acquire practical expressions and that students' satisfaction level with the class was high.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1103-1117
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• 2012

This paper focuses on eighteenth-century English pastor, poet, and hymnist, Isaac Watts (1674-1748), a significant yet neglected nonconformist dissenter, who defines a public religion and transforms poetry as a new literary political genre. During England's post-Revolutionary religio-political turmoil, Watts's poem, "The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders" (1734), deliberately engages in a methodical refusal to settle upon a single system of images or terms for describing or referring to the speaker's identity or situation. Watts's, literal and metaphoric, refusal to identify with one religio-political approach to nonconformist dissent has been the very point of criticism that not only undermines the poet's monumental work on hymns but also the lasting impact that the poet had upon England's national consciousness. This study, therefore, questions why the poet refuses to choose one ideal path in his pursuit for religious freedom and, further, analyzes how the hymn writer defends his demotic aesthetics. This paper investigates Watts's comprehensive and detailed formulation of what a secularized "social religion" should entail and, further, explores its beneficial role in the pursuit for society's peace. In contrast to Milton's apocalyptic vengeance, Watts's nonconformist goal seeks to balance and locate authority in the individual with the ancient ideal of a "sacred order" that is represented in "The Hurry of the Spirits" through the means of poetic imagination.

• Educational Technology International
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.141-166
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of using visual stimulation and gesture, namely embodied language learning, on learning achievement and learner's course interest in the EFL classroom. To investigate the effectiveness of the proposed purpose, thirty two third-grade elementary school students participated and were assigned into four English learning class conditions (i.e., using animated graphic and gestures condition, using only animated graphic condition, using still pictures and gesture condition, and control condition). The research questions for this study are addressed below: (1) What differences are there in post and delayed learning achievement between imitating gesture group and non-imitating one and between animated graphic group and still picture one? (2) What differences are there in course interest between imitating gesture group and non-imitating one and between animated graphic group and still picture one? The Embodiment-based English learning system for this study was designed by using Microsoft's Kinect sensing devices. The results of this study revealed that students of imitating gesture group memorized and retained better words and sentence structure than those of the other groups. As for learner's course interest measurement, imitating gesture group showed a highly positive response to attention, relevance, and satisfaction for curriculum and using animated graphic influenced satisfaction as well. This finding can be attributed to the embodied cognition, which proposes that the body and the mind are inseparable in the constitution of cognition and thus students using visual simulation and imitating related gesture regard the embodied language learning approach more satisfactory and acceptable than the conventional ones.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.41-55
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• 2023

In data-driven learning (DDL), learners explore a corpus to understand vocabulary and grammar. Although many studies have emphasized the role of DDL in second language (L2) acquisition, L2 light verbs have been largely under-explored. To bridge this gap, this study focused on the learning outcomes of L2 light verbs among 29 intermediate-level Japanese university students. The research zeroed in on six prevalent light verbs in English: "make," "do," "take," "have," "give," and "get." Over nine weeks, the participants engaged with verb-noun collocations using worksheets that juxtaposed Japanese translations of the target collocations with their English equivalents, with the verbs omitted. With the aid of Wordbanks Online, they filled in the blanks and constructed accurate sentences. Before this activity, a 20-minute tutorial was given to the participants on how to interpret the concordance lines. The effectiveness of the DDL method was evaluated using pre-tests, immediate post-tests, and delayed post-tests. The results showed that DDL significantly improved the participants' knowledge of the target collocations of light verbs and nouns; the post-test and delayed post-test scores were significantly higher than the pre-test scores. The results showed that, overall, DDL contributed to memorizing the collocations of light verbs and nouns; however, DDL had different effects on the memorization of collocations across different light verbs. The extent of work on the worksheet is not the only factor in its retention, and observing concordance lines may promote learners' memorization of light-verb collocations.

• 인지과학
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.369-396
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• 2008

멀티미디어 학습에서 시공간 작업기억의 용량에 따라 그림 유형과 그림 내용의 효과가 달라지는지를 두 개의 실험에서 알아보았다. 실험 1에서는 영어단어 설명을 단어로만 주는 조건, 동영상과 같이 주는 조건, 그림과 같이 주는 조건을 비교하였다. 단어검사에서 동영상은 시공간 작업기억 용량이 큰 집단에서만 효과가 있었고, 이해검사에서는 단어설명만 주어진 조건에서 가장 수행이 좋았다. 실험 2에서는 동영상의 내용이 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 단어검사에서는 전형적인 내용을 담은 동영상이 효과가 있었으나, 이해검사에서는 맥락에 적합한 내용의 동영상으로 학습한 집단이 이해 점수가 높았고, 이 경향은 시공간 작업기억 용량이 작은 집단에서 더 두드러지게 나타났다. 두 실험의 결과는 멀티미디어 학습의 효과는 인지부하의 정도에 달려 있다는 인지부하이론과 멀티미디어 학습을 여러 수준의 활동의 결과로 설명한 생성이론의 의해 잘 설명되는 것으로 해석되었다.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.142-151
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• 2001

목적: 높은 숙련도의 국어와 낮은 숙련도의 영어의 단어들을 사용하는 시각 과제에서 어의처리에 매개되는 뇌 신경회로의 공통요소와 특이요소를 탐색하고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 정상인 13명을 대상으로 국어단어에 대한 어의처리 과제, 영어단어에 대한 어의처리 과제, 단순 도형을 이용한 대조과제 등 세 가지 인지과제를 주고, 과제 수행 동안 $[^{15}O]H_2O$를 추적자로 한 양전자방출단층촬영을 실시한 후 감산분석을 통해 두 언어에 대한 어의처리 과정에 공통적으로 관여하는 뇌영역과 각각에 특이하게 작용하는 뇌영역을 탐색하였다. 결과: 국어 및 영어단어에 공통적으로 어의처리 과정에 좌측 편측성의 방추상이랑(fusiform gyrus)의 활성화가 관찰되었고, 추가적으로 영어단어의 경우 좌측 하측두이랑(inferior temporal gyrus)의 활성화가 관찰되었다. 국어단어에 특이한 어의처리 영역은 우측 일차청각영역을 포함하는 뇌 전반에 걸친 다발성 활성화가 특징이었던데 반해, 영어단어에 특이한 어의처리 영역은 우측 시각영역에 한정된 양상이었다. 결론: 높은 숙련도의 국어단어를 이용한 시각적 과제수행에는 내적 음운처리가 중요한데 비해, 낮은 숙련도의 영어단어를 이용한 과제수행의 경우에는 주로 시각적 주사(visual scanning)가 중요한 요소를 구성한다.