• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.111-116
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• 2013

Instructive lessons in the language classrooms are extremely constrictive to language learners in improving their English skills, thus, the use of technology in education plays an important role in a language classroom. Results of language proficiency improvement of the learners vary depending on the extent of supplementary materials offered by the internet delivered to the learners. The purpose of the present study is to explore and propose a new approach of language acquisition offered by the internet. This study presents effective methods of using the internet in carrying out the written work. In this paper, we show that the relationship between participation of the learners in the class activities and improvement of English writing skills are mutually proportional.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.235-252
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to characterize the intonational realizations of vocatives in comparison with those of appositives in English statements and questions, and to compare the realizations produced by English native speakers with those of Korean students. Unlike Pierrehumbert(1980), in which the tag expressions do not have pitch accents, Beckman & Pierrehumbert(1986) proposed that the vocatives have a special status in tonal alignment and duration and that they form an independent phrase with pitch accent. Our results reinforce Beckman & Pierrehumbert(1986): both English native speakers and Korean students realize the vocatives in terms of rising tone, and the appositives in terms of both falling tone in statements and rising tone in questions. Moreover, they pronounced the nouns before vocatives longer than those before appositives. However, native speakers impose the low phrase tone before vocatives in statements and the high tone in questions; whereas, Korean students either put the low phrase tone on pitch contours of both statements and questions, or tend to pause before vocatives, thereby constituting an intonational phrase.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.131-135
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• 2005

Previous studies on the bilinguals' lexical selection have suggested some evidence in favor of language-specific hypothesis. The purpose of this study was to see whether Korean-English bilinguals' semantic systems of Korean and English are shared or separated between the two languages. In a series of picture-word interference tasks, participants were to name the pictures in Korean or in English with distractor words printed either in Korean or English. The distractor words were either semantically identical, related, unrelated to the picture, or nonexistant. The response time of naming was facilitated when distractor words were semantically identical for both same-(Naming pictures in English/korean with English/Korean distractor words) and different-language pairs(Naming pictures in English with Korean distractor words and vice versa). But this facilitation effect was stronger when naming was produced in their native language, which in this case was Korean. Also, inhibitory effect was shown when the picture and its distractor word were semantically related in both same- and different-language paired conditions. These results show that bilinguals'two lexicons compete to some extent when selecting the target word. In this viewpoint, it can be concluded that the lexicons of either languages may not be entirely but partly overlapping in bilinguals.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.3-5
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• 2010

최근 학습 패러다임은 문서 중심에서 지식 및 정보 기반으로 크게 변화하고 있다. 또한 유비쿼터스 사회로의 전환을 맞이하여 다양한 USN 기술 기반의 학습 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 그 중 RFID 기술 기반의 학습 연구에서는 대부분 유비쿼터스 학습 환경 구축에 관한 연구가 주를 이루고 있다. 따라서 실질적인 학습에 적용하는 연구의 결과는 미미하다. 본 논문에서는 RFID기술 기반의 다국어 학습기를 구현하였다. 태그를 인식하여 특정 사물을 사용자로 하여금 모국어뿐만 아니라 다국어로도 변역하여 여러 가지 언어들을 학습할 수 있게 지원하는 장치이다. 실험에서는 13.56Mhz의 RFID 및 PXA255A ARM보드 사용하여 학습기를 제작하여 효율성 테스트를 하였다.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.335-357
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• 2007

This study aims to investigate the pragmatic features of Korean EFL learners' interlanguage in the communicative act of complaining. Since a complaint, by its nature, is likely to cause offence, thereby threatening the social relationship between the speaker and the hearer, making a complaint in a polite manner is of crucial importance in maintaining harmonious social relationships. However, very little research has been carried out on the complaint speech act performances of Korean EFL learners. In particular, studies which attempt to examine the effect of social status on the choice of complaint speech act strategies are rare. The present study compared the complaint speech act performances of Korean EFL learners and those of native speakers of English with respect to social status. 24 Korean EFL learners and 28 native speakers of English participated and the data were collected via a Discourse Completion Test. The findings revealed that Korean EFL learners differed from native English speakers in the use of complaint strategies. These results indicate that Korean EFL learners lack certain important skills necessary to make complaints appropriately, suggesting the need for the foreign language learners to develop a more extensive pragmatic knowledge of complaint strategies.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.313-316
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• 2000

원어민이 발성한 영어유음 시료를 사용하여 한국인 영문과와 타학과(비 영문과) 학생들을 대상으로 인지실험을 하였고, 시료의 정확성을 확인하기 위하여 원어민을 또 하나의 피험자 그룹으로 선택하였다. 영문과 피험자의 영어유음 인지결과를 살펴보면 어두$(70\%)$ < 어말$(75\%)$ < 어중$(80\%)$ glt; 연속음$(86\%)$의 순서로 인지율이 높아졌다. 타학과 피험자의 영어유음 인지에서는 어두$(59\%)$< 어말$(66\%)$ glt; 어중$(70\%)$ < 연속음$(72\%)$의 순서로 인지율의 증가를 보였다. 원어민의 영어유음 인지에서는 녹음에 참가하지 않은 다른 원어민을 대상으로 해서 총 평균 $99.6\%$로 거의 완벽한 인지율을 보였다. 그 만금 녹음된 시료가 정확하다는 것을 확인시켜 주었다. 피험자별 그룹에 대한 결과 비교에서는 원어민이 녹음한 발음으로 인지실험을 할 때 타학과$(66.8\%)$ < 영문과$(77.4\%)$< 원어민$(99.6\%)$의 순서로 점차 좋은 인지율을 보였다. 한국인이 발성한 영어유음에 대한 원어민의 인지실험에서는 한국인 영어유음 발음의 정확성을 알아보고자 하는 것이 목적이다. 한국인 발성시료에 대한 원어민의 총인지율은 $68\%$로 원어민의 발성시료에 대한 인지율 $99.6\%$와 비교해볼 때 영문과 녹음자들의 발음 정확도가 높지 못하다는 것을 보여 주었다. 평균/1/ $(79\%)$과 평균/r/$(58\%)$의 인지율을 보게 되면 한국인의 영어유음 발성에 있어서 /r/의 발성이 /1/의 경우보다 문제가 더 심각하다는 것을 알 수 있다. 특히 실험결과는 어두/1/$(87\%)$과 어두/r/$(43\%)$에서 뚜렷한 인지율의 차이를 보여주고 있다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1067-1078
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• 2017

Previous research on university life of Chinese students studying in Korea has been conducted on students in Korea, but Chinese students have a sense of belonging and university prejudice against Korean universities, so the objectivity of research is not clear. This paper conducted a survey of the Chinese people in China and conducted a media search for attracting foreign students. Not all foreign students are proficient in Korean language. Even students who have completed more than one year of education in the Korean language institutes or passed advanced level of Test of Proficiency in Korean(TOPIK) have difficulties in everyday life and acquiring a degree. According to the results of this study, until foreign students who lack sufficient Korean language skills are able to adapt to culture and acquire information in Korea, it is desirable to prepare multilingual content services so that they can obtain academic information or daily information necessary for studying in their native language.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 2017

Preschool children to do production and acquisition of phonological system from birth to 8 years of age. If a child has hearing loss, he/she has a lot of difficulties to hear sound. The problem of auditory perception can causes limited speech acquisition, delayed language development, and communication disorders. It also affects learning, social and emotional development. Early detection and diagnosis of hearing loss are important for intervention. However, it may be difficult to detect if the degree of hearing loss are slight and/or it appears only on some frequencies. In cases of these kinds of hearing losses, it is often difficult to provide aural intervention. The goal of this study is to discuss the interpretation of audiological evaluation in case of mild-to-moderately severe asymmetric ski-slop sensorineural hearing loss, analyze communication problems, and concerning about audiological, and speech-language pathological rehabilitation.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.64-74
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• 2002

The purpose of this paper is to review the importance of situated cognition and the features of MOO(Multi-user Object Oriented)environments for effective foreign language learning. Learning foreign languages is beyond simply recalling for the vocabularies or expression usages of targeted languages. As much the same as children naturally acquire their mother languages among active and social interactions with other surrounding people, foreign languages should be told in the circumstances and contexts for authentic applications of foreign languages. The MOO, one of the virtual realities with spatial metaphors on the text basis, has been gaining high attentions from educational fields, thanks to the strong functions of social contexts and learner interactions. This paper approaches the features of MOO as foreign language learning environments, in terms of activity, context and interaction.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.249-258
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• 2020

The purpose of this study provides multicultural adolescents' out of school career preparation experience. Seven multicultural adolescents out of school living in Seoul, Gyeonggido, Chungchungdo were selected for the in-depth interview. Data were collected from July to September, 2019. This research utilized Colaizzi's phenomenological method. The participants provided 14 themes on the essential structure of experience and 5 theme clusters. The final 14 themes were relationship with friends, speedy learning ability, fear of learning, generous character, no dreaming, enjoying hobby, influence of job, influence of mother, no concept of career, looking for mother language-related job, no managing time and health, material abundance, trying diet, burden about test. Based on this result, it is suggested to acknowledge importance of positive motive pursuit for career, various support giving power, positive attitude of career, self-reflection, road to go for career preparation.