• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.263-291
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• 2003

This paper is to help the students in elementary schools develop and improve their English listening and speaking skills by presenting effective teaching and learning techniques using puppetry. It is absolutely obvious that listening and speaking are very important skills for most EFL students. Using puppets in the classroom is a creative English teaching technique which can involve authentic, communicative language situations. Moreover, puppets appeal to children and can aid in lowering affective filters thereby creating a more comfortable learning environment. The study clearly showed that using puppets is feasible and enjoyable in elementary English classes. However, caution must be exercised in drawing and generalizing conclusions from this experience. The results of the experiment are as follows: First, using puppetry in the English class was found to have positive influence on students' affective domains (interst, attitude). Second, using puppets in the English classes was found to be efficient for improving students' English listening and speaking skills. Third, appropriate materials should be selected and well thought-out plans should be made to be successful English class using puppetry. Perhaps the most interesting line of future research is to use qualitative research to examine the effect of this technique on the teacher variable. Further research is recommended, especially on using puppetry for speaking proficiency and creating affectively comfortable learning atmospheres.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.537-543
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• 2016

This paper suggests a class model to improve the English oral proficiency for intermediate low English speaking learners. Utilizing the four English skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), the class model focuses on the learners' schema and discussion strategies. To enhance the learners' motivation and match their cognitive capacity, 10 discussion topics were prepared by surveying the learners. A pilot experiment was conducted to investigate the teaching effects of the discussion class model with 26 college students majoring in English in Seoul. The participants' oral proficiency was measured both before, and after the instructions by OPIc (Oral Proficiency Interview in computer). As a result of the experiment, the percentage of participants whose oral proficiency levels were lower than intermediate mid decreased from 82% to 47%. In addition, the percentage of participants with higher oral proficiency than intermediate low was increased dramatically from 18% to 53%, which supports the claim that through discussion, the class learners' diverse and creative ideas need to be expressed in a formal and intelligible language. Finally, through the findings of the study, the possibility of a discussion class can be expected, regardless of the learners' low level of oral proficiency.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.87-120
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to verify empirically whether or not the linguistically creative problem-solving ability progress by developing and applying an enrichment learning program for the verbally gifted elementary school students. The total number of the verbally gifted students who participated in this study were 60 children. Half of them were subjects for evaluating the appropriateness of the enrichment learning program and the verbally creative problem-solving ability test developed by the researcher. The other half were divided into three groups for applying the teaching materials by Korean Educational Development Institute, the enrichment learning program by the present researcher, and the textbook enrichment program. The data were analyzed by the statistical method of repeated measures ANOVA. The results were as follows: First, the enrichment learning program developed by this researcher has greatly contributed to the advancement of verbally creative problem-solving ability. The program was especially effective in reading and writing, but not in speaking. second, the sub-category of reading includes factual, inferential·critical, and imaginary understanding. Among them, factual and imaginary understanding had not significantly advanced, while inferential·critical understanding had significant progression. Third, it was found that both logical and creative expression did not improve significantly by the enrichment learning program developed by the present researcher. Speaking is difficult to instruct. In conclusion, it was found that the systematic enrichment learning program was effective in developing language skills of the verbally gifted elementary school children. It was also proved to be more effective to teach them reading and writing together in everyday life. Also, it was turned out that continuous development of the enrichment learning program for the verbally gifted students is needed.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.21-29
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• 2007

The necessity for improving the English listening ability of Korean learners has been emphasized since the ultimate goal of English education converted to CLT(Communicative Language Teaching) in Korea. Verbotonal Approach as an auditory-based strategy has been proved to be effective substantially in maximizing the listening skill of spoken foreign language. The purpose of this study is to find out an efficient way of improving listening ability for Korean middle school students by employing OFH(Optimal Frequency of Hearing) using Tonality Word Sentence Test, before & after using Listen II Verbotonal training unit based on VTS(Verbotonal System). The results of the listening tests showed that the listening ability of the subjects increased by 16.7% on the words and by 5.5% on the sentences after using Listen II, compared with before using Listen II and that the improvement rate of listening ability on the level of words is much higher than that on the level of sentences. From the results, we can come to a conclusion that training the listening skill with words in mid-tonality and low-tonality based on OFH might give a great positive effect in improving listening ability for Korean learners of English.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.487-490
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• 2002

학교 교육의 특성상 많은 부분이 교실에서의 음성정보 전달에 의해 이루어지고 있는 점을 감안하면 바람직한 청취환경의 개선이 검토되어야 한다. 또한 중${\cdot}$ 고등학교의 수학능력시험의 국어, 영어 듣기평가 및 다양한 어학 시험이 시청각 시설을 통해 이루어지고 있는 실정이므로 교실의 음환경은 매우 중요한 요소라하겠다. 본 논문에서는 음환경을 좌우하는 음원의 위치에 따라 명료 도가 어떻게 달라지는지를 실험을 통하여 검증하고, 명료도가 높고, 교실 전체에 균등한 분포를 보이는 음원의 위치를 찾아내고자 하였다. 교실 내의 음원의 위치로는 일반적으로 많이 쓰이고 있는 column(벽면 노출형)과 ceiling(천정 매입형) 위치와 임의의 음원 cluster(전면 중앙)를 선정하여 음장 파라메터를 측정한 결과 RASTI 는 세 타입 모두 $0.54\~0.55$로 값으로 근소한 차이를 보이고 있으며, 잔향시간은 ceiling>cluster>column의 순서로 나타났다. 일반적으로 잔향과 명료도와의 관계는 반비례하는 것으로 알려져 있으나, 실험 결과 잔향시간이 1.33초로 가장 긴 column 스피커의 경우 D50 값이 약 $47\%$로 가장 높은 값으로 나타났다. 이것은 column형 스피커의 경우 음원과 각 학생의 위치에 대한 평균 직접음선거리가 가장 짧기 때문인 것으로 나타났다.