• 비교문화연구
• /
• 제32권
• /
• pp.81-107
• /
• 2013

This study examines pre-college study abroad (PSA, Chogi yuhak), which is one of the fastest growing phenomena among the various efforts for Koreans to learn English. The discussion includes the reasons why PSA has become so popular in the last decade under the name of globalization, the problems it has caused, and its new impact that this phenomenon has on Korean mothers. This study argues that PSA boom provides Korean mothers with an opportunity to pursue their own self-realization by studying abroad with their school aged children. These "new wild geese" mothers, who make double investments in their own education as well as in their children's in the U.S. represent important aspects of the contemporary Korean society regarding education, gender and neoliberal social atmosphere.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
• /
• 제17권11호
• /
• pp.552-562
• /
• 2016

조기 영어교육이 필요한 것인지, 그리고 효과가 있는 것인지에 대해서는 2000년대 이후 많은 연구들이 실시되어 왔으나, 상당수 연구들은 통제집단의 부재, 관련변인 통제의 실패, 혹은 간이검사의 사용 등으로 인해 해석의 어려움이 존재했다. 본 연구는 8개월간의 영어학습 프로그램이 유아의 영어능력에 유의미한 효과를 미치는 지를 알아보기 위해 미국에서 공식 언어검사로 가장 많이 사용되고 있는 WIDA검사를 사용하여 개입집단과 통제집단의 영어능력치를 3회에 걸쳐 측정하였다. 또 영어학습이 본격화 되기 이전의 아동의 한국어 능력, 지능, 성격변인, 그리고 부모의 사회경제적 변인 및 영어교육에 대한 태도를 측정하고 이를 통제하여 영어학습만의 고유효과를 알아보고자 하였다. 3차 검사를 완료한 39명의 유아들의 영어능력을 분석한 결과, 개입집단은 수용언어 발달과 표현언어 발달에 있어 관련변인의 효과를 통제한 후에도 여전히 통제집단 유아에 비해 우수하였다. 하지만 이러한 효과는 영어검사의 정답문항 수에 근거하였을 때에만 유의미하였으며, 집단간 질적인 측면에서 유의미한 변화는 발견되지 않았다. 본 연구의 결과는 단순 노출교육이라 하더라도 조기영어교육은 최소한 단기간 효과가 있음을 시사한다.

• 아동학회지
• /
• 제32권6호
• /
• pp.157-185
• /
• 2011

The purpose of this study was to explore the factors influencing preschoolers' emergent English as a second language literacy skills in terms of maternal language behavior in Korean and English picture book reading. This study was also conducted in order to identify the pathways of each factor. The subjects consisted of 201 mothers and their 3~5 year-old children from middle income families living in Seoul, Incheon, Gyyounggi-do, and Chungcheongbuk-do. The results indicated that the factors influencing preschoolers' emergent English as a second language literacy skills acquisition were as follows : maternal beliefs about the value of picture book reading, the child's level of interest in picture book reading, the time spent on picture book reading and maternal language behavior during picture book reading activities. The results further indicate that it is important that the mother shares desirable language interaction with her children in their native language while reading not only Korean but also English picture books when aiming to improve preschoolers' emergent English literacy skills.

• 한국가정과교육학회지
• /
• 제26권3호
• /
• pp.113-131
• /
• 2014

본 연구는 남녀 중학생의 영어 수학 학업성취도에 대한 부모의 사교육비 및 감독 애정, 자녀의 학습가치, 자기조절학습능력의 영향력을 알아보고자 수행되었다. 본 연구의 자료는 한국 아동 청소년 패널에 참여한 중학교 3학년 자료를 활용하여 수집되었으며, 현재 우리나라 사교육 참여율이 가장 높은 과목이 수학과 영어라는 현실을 고려하여 수학과 영어과목의 사교육 경험이 있는 중학생 1,123명과 그 부모가 연구대상으로 선정되었다. 조사도구는 영어 수학 학업성취도, 월평균 사교육비, 부모의 감독 애정, 중학교 자녀의 학습가치, 중학교 자녀의 자기조절학습능력을 측정하기 위한 자기기입식 설문지이었다. 수집된 자료는 기술통계와 상관분석, 위계적 회귀분석을 통해 분석되었다. 본 연구의 주요결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 중학생의 성별과 상관없이 부모의 월평균 사교육비 수준과 부모의 감독수준이 높을수록, 중학생이 학습에 대해 긍정적인 가치를 부여하는 정도와 자기조절학습능력 수준이 높을수록 영어 수학 학업성취도가 높아지는 경향을 보였다. 둘째, 남녀 중학생 모두 자기조절학습능력이 영어 수학 학업성취도를 가장 잘 예측하는 변인으로 제시된 반면 그 밖에 남자 중학생의 경우 학습가치 및 부모 감독의 순으로, 여자 중학생의 월평균 사교육비만이 영어 수학 학업성취도에 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 남녀 중학생 모두 사교육비가 영어 수학 학업성취도에 미치는 영향에 있어 부모의 감독 애정 및 중학생의 학습가치, 자기조절학습능력의 조절효과는 발견되지 않았다. 마지막으로, 본 연구결과를 토대로 중학생 자녀의 학업성취도에 대한 부모 및 '가정교과'의 역할을 제안하였다.

• 복식
• /
• 제64권7호
• /
• pp.114-127
• /
• 2014

Performing arts offer fun and knowledge and are directed for various purposes. Performing arts are also used as a means for education. Children's English media musical, 'The Magic Flute' is the performance reflecting all these. The author of this study took part in stage costume production, and this study was carried out aiming at designing and producing stage costume in line with educational purpose and intention. This study consists of an analysis stage for the existing performances of 'The Magic Flute', and a stage costume design and production stage for children's English media musical, 'The Magic Flute', First, this study classified and analyzed the stage design and stage costume design of the existing 'The Magic Flute' by concept, and then, examined their features, respectively. and this study unfolded the stage costume concept, based on the analyses of existing performance's stage costume and the characters' personality and features described in the current study subject's script. As the last step of this study made each character's stage costume. A total of 69 costumes for stage costume were made for 7 types of characters. This study is considered to have huge significance in that the stage costume was developed for 'The Magic Flute'.

• 영어영문학
• /
• 제58권1호
• /
• pp.117-142
• /
• 2012

The education of children is one of the most important parts in children's literature. Children's literature, whose implied readers are both children and parents, is a good means to teach how they should behave and interact. Therefore, literary conventions of children's literature tend to be conservative with happy endings or fairy tale elements. Most of the children's literature of the 18th century were read as a conduct book which teaches children good manners and proper behavior, and at the same time served as a guidebook which tells parents how to discipline children. It emphasized the need of discipline to ascertain the hierarchy and order of the family, and cherished the close relationship between parents and children. In the 19th century, the ideal of family becomes more internalized. In the early 20th century, the ideology of family still remained, even though the world wars and economic depressions caused the cracks and collapses of the family. In the later 20th century, the disintegration of the traditional family was accelerated. The ideal of family based on the close relationship between parents and children, has had problems from the start. The attachment and over-closeness became stressful and sometimes could be poisonous. Recent children's literature shows the process of disintegration of the traditional nuclear family, children suffering in the fractured family, children's mental trauma, and nostalgia for the lost family. However, modern children's literature manages to find the lost or ideal surrogate family, and often shows fairy-tale elements such as mystical and heroic child protagonists or helpers who might solve all the difficult problems at once, despite the collapse of the family in reality.

• 영어어문교육
• /
• 제6호
• /
• pp.219-239
• /
• 2000

There has been a growing enthusiasm in Korea for the early education of English as a foreign language (EFL). The present study examined the validity of the Critical Period Hypothesis in terms of the Universal Grammar (UG), in three different types of learning contexts - first language (L1), second language (SL), and foreign language (FL) learning contexts. While previous research findings in L1 and SL learning contexts suggest that UG principles and parameters are accessible to language learners only for the early years of lifetime, this article argues that their results - and even the methods - cannot be applied to EFL settings and that independent studies on the EFL context are, required. It also proposes the recent UG notion of functional categories as the most appropriate subject in the discussion of Korean EFL learners' access to UG. Findings on foreign language contexts, including the author's own, strongly indicate that UG is not sensitive to learners' starting ages in FL settings. If young children in FL contexts cannot develop their interlanguage grammar based on UG, the existing teaching methods for young children should be revised.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
• /
• 제6권1호
• /
• pp.53-72
• /
• 2002

The purpose of the research is to investigate the amount of private education expenditures for on-line education and the factors which affect on-line education expenditures and its decreasing effect of private education expenditures. The results of this study can provide basic materials to found policy to decrease private education market and private education expenditures. The sample of this study was 484 parents who had an experience using on-line education for their children being in mainly constituted by classes of pre-school over and less than high school student. The results was as follows. First, education expenditures for on-line education are 64,900won and the English and the Mathematics as main reasons using on-line education were that it is available for 24 hours and cheaper than off-line education. The parents got information for on-line education by internet, mass media and their next-door neighbors. Second, the significant variables which affect on-line education expenditures and its decreasing effect of education expenditures were the children's school level and financial related factors.

• Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
• /
• 제5권2호
• /
• pp.95-105
• /
• 2015

We developed a test of English silent word reading, following work by Mather, Hammill, Allen and Roberts (2004) and Bell, McCallum, Krik, Fuller, and McCane-Bowling (2007), in order to tap Hong Kong Chinese children's reading of English as a foreign language. We created one subtest of individual word reading and another of word reading contextualized within sentences; together, these tests require no more than 10 minutes for administration. In Study 1, we administered the entire test to 552 second grade Hong Kong Chinese children between the ages of 70 and 121 months old, from five different primary schools. The association between the subtests of English silent word reading and contextual reading was positively correlated (.78). In Study 2, 77 Hong Kong Chinese second graders were tested on our newly developed English silent word reading test, together with non-verbal IQ, an English word reading and a Chinese character recognition test (both read aloud). With age and non-verbal IQ statistically controlled, there was a significant correlation between English silent word reading and the more standard English word reading, read aloud, (.78); the association between English silent word reading and Chinese character recognition was also positively correlated (.49). This newly created test is a quick and reliable measure, suitable for both educators and researchers to use to identify poor readers who learn English as a foreign or second language.

• 한국보육지원학회지
• /
• 제6권2호
• /
• pp.57-81
• /
• 2010

본 연구의 목적은 균형 잡힌 영어접근 프로그램이 유아들의 영어 읽기와 쓰기능력 증진에 효과적인지를 살펴보고자 하는 것이다. 이를 위해 D시의 유치원 만5세 유아 36명을(실험, 통제집단 각 18명씩) 대상으로 실험집단에 균형적 영어접근 프로그램을 8주간 주 2회 실시하였다. 본 연구의 검증을 위해 활용한 검사도구는 알파벳 읽기능력과 단어읽기능력은 이옥섭(1999)의 단어읽기 검사를 수정하여 사용하였으며, 책읽기 능력은 Sulzby(1985)의 읽기 발달단계를 검사도구로 사용하였다. 유아들의 쓰기발달 수준을 측정하기 위해 Hildreth(1936)와 Schikedanz(1986)의 쓰기 발달단계에 기초하여 이경화(1997)가 수정한 도구를 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 14.0 통계 프로그램을 사용하여 ANCOVA분석을 하였다. 연구결과를 요약하면, 첫째, 균형적 영어접근 프로그램이 유아들의 읽기능력 증진에 효과적임이 밝혀졌다. 하위 요인가운데 알파벳 읽기와 단어읽기는 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 나타났으나 영어책읽기에는 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 둘째, 균형적 영어접근 프로그램이 유아들의 쓰기능력 발달에 효과적임이 밝혀졌다. 따라서, 균형적 영어접근 프로그램이 유아들의 영어 읽기와 쓰기능력 증진에 긍정적 효과가 있음을 알 수 있었다.