• Title/Summary/Keyword: Argumentative Writing

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Elementary School Students' Arguments on Causes of Phases of the Moon and Concept Analysis (달의 위상변화 원인에 대한 초등학생들의 논증과 개념 분석)

  • Kim, Youngdae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.161-172
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to characterize students' conceptions on causes of the phases of the moon. For this purpose, students were given a worksheet for argumentative writing activity where in they need to choose the right answer between five statements and provide reasonable evidences about causes of the phases of the moon. Written arguments collected were used as analysis data and TAP(Toulmin's argument pattern) including conceptual analysis of TAP elements were utilized to figure out logical structures and subordinate conceptions. The result showed that students had various alternative concepts about causes of the phases of the moon and associated with celestial. Also 70.5% of subjects had incomplete argument structures, and error types of concepts had difference according to types of alternative concepts as well as TAP. These results mean that importance of checking students' preconceptions, need of scientific argumentation, and appropriate instructional strategies considering alternative conception types and fallacy types that students had.

Research on Korean Language Textbooks to Activate Media Literacy for the Era of Cultural Convergence (문화융합시대의 미디어 리터러시 활성화를 위한 국어교재 연구)

  • Lim, Ji-Won
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.389-395
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    • 2020
  • This discussion is a study that proposes to introduce a strategy to positively interpret the narrative meaning in media language based on a generalized cognitive environment in order to activate correct media literacy in the era of cultural convergence. have. In particular, by using advertising content that has the most reinforced creativity related to cultural interpretation, it was induced to grasp the informational manifestation of that era and to reproduce meaning interpretation with relevance. In addition, it attempted to utilize an argumentative writing strategy in the process of reproducing Korean language learners' writing, which was capable of cognitive interpretation. The intention of the public service advertisement content developer always expects a positive effect in the social and cultural aspect, and the learner dreams of reflection and a correct future through the effect. The research on activating media literacy in the era of cultural convergence, which I intended, has not yet been much discussed. We hope that the proposed discussion of this study will be actively utilized in mass media language education of the contents of textbooks for Korean language learners, and we are sorry for the part that does not contain quantitative analysis contents, and we expect the results in subsequent thesis.

Exploratory Study on the Levels of Participation and Interaction in Online Debate of the Classes with Discussion Session (토론식 수업에서 온라인 토론의 참여적 차원과 상호작용 차원에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Lee, Ran
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.63-74
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    • 2021
  • The aim of this study was to analyze the levels of learners' participation and interactions both quantitatively and qualitatively based on the learners' choices of topic patterns in a process of online debate of a general subject and to explore the effects in order to suggest the ways for activating online debates. For this, it quantitatively analyzed the messages and the patterns in the online debate boards and supplementally implemented a post survey in order to investigate the participants' recognition on the factors of the learners' interactions and the effects. The given topic patterns were 'the presentation of one's opinion' and 'the presentation of pros and cons.' As a result of the analysis, the participating degree was higher in the pattern of 'the presentation of one's opinion' apart from the previous study. This study surveyed and, based on the result, it proposed the teachers should refer to the participants' tendency in advance. Also, it presented the deeper meanings on the interactions extracted by the results of the survey. The learners showed the strong dependence on the teacher' lectures or his materials and a variety of interactions with diverse objects. Besides, it is revealed that debates are helpful factors for enhancing learners' argumentative thinking, writing skills, and the knowledge about the subject in terms of the participants' recognition. Based on the findings, this study emphasized the teachers' educational roles and suggested the educational effects of the online debates in each class should be activated in this era of distance education.