• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.7-13
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• 2007

Hearing loss in newborns is the most frequently occurring birth defect. If hearing impaired children are not identified and managed early, it is difficult for many of them to acquire the fundamental language, social and cognitive skills that provide the foundation for later schooling and success in society. All newborns, both high and low risk, should be screened for hearing loss in the birth hospital prior discharge (Universal Newborn Heaing Screening, UNHS). Objective physiologic measures must be used to detect newborns and very young infants with hearing loss. Recent technological developments have produced screening methods and both evoked otoacoustic emission (EOAE) and auditory brainstem response (ABR) have been successfully implemented for UNHS. Audiologic evaluation should be carried out before 3 months of age and infants with confirmed hearing loss should receive intervention before 6 months of age. All infants who pass newborn hearing screening but who have risk indicators for other auditory disorders and/or speech and language delay receive ongoing audiologic surveillance and monitoring for communication development. Infants with sensorineural hearing loss are managed with hearing aids and receive auditory and speech-language rehabilitation therapies. Cochlear implants can be an outstanding option for certain children aged 12 months and older with severe to profound hearing loss who show limited benefit from conventional amplifications.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.17-36
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to examine the ways in which CALL apply to enhance the motivational aspects of second language learning. Theories relevant to social, cognitive, and affective foundations of motivation are first reviewed to demonstrate the important role of motivational influences in improving learners' affect and achievements. Then, implications arising from such theories in strengthening the motivational aspects of CALL are explicated in the second part. With the spread of computer technology in language classrooms, the innovative role of CALL in the development and maintenance of intrinsic motivation can be illustrated. Specifically, CALL may provide cognitively supportive instruction geared towards improving students' performance. Also, it has been reported from the affective perspective that CALL can captivate learners' attention, promote their feelings and expectations of success, improve perceptions of control, and increase positive attributions to effort and ability. Finally, from a social learning perspective, CALL may enhance learners' self-efficacy and foster their achievement and positive affect through social interactions, proximal goal-setting, and attributional feedback. In the framework of CALL, students seem to be benefited by the immediacy and authenticity of contact with target languages and cultures made at their choices and decisions.

• Human Ecology Research
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.45-56
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• 2016

This study investigates: (1) children's proactive aggression according to age and the emotional condition of the counterpart child, (2) if children's intention attribution, emotional attribution (victim and perpetrator) and language ability influences proactive aggression according to age and the emotional condition of the counterpart child. The subjects were 68 3-year-old and 70 5-year-old children. Each child was individually interviewed with picture cards. Collected data were coded and analyzed in SPSS with frequencies, percentiles, means, standard deviations, repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA), t -tests, Pearson correlations and multiple linear regression. The results showed that 3-year-old children showed more proactive aggression and physical aggression than 5-year-old children. They showed more proactive aggression when counterpart child was in a happy condition than in a fear condition. Intention attribution, emotional attribution, and language ability partially affected a children's proactive aggression according to age and the emotional condition of the counterpart child. This study has practical implications for teachers in regards to children's proactive aggressive behavior at child care centers. Teachers use specific to develop advantages as the basis for developing aggression prevention programs that consider emotional and cognitive factors.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.344-350
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) into the Korean language. Methods: The process of translation and adaptation of the ICF used here followed the translation guidelines of WHO. Implementation of this procedure comprised of four steps; forward translation, expert panel back-translation, pre-testing and cognitive interviewing, and final adaptation. The translators included health professionals with knowledge of ICF and non-health professionals blinded to the ICF. Clinical academics with significant experience in the use of disability survey, medical doctors, special educators, related policy makers, clinicians, architecture professionals, and international experts in ICF were invited to integrate all versions of the ICF for testing; 151 clinicians volunteered from 19 medical institutes across the country. Four different core-sets and a questionnaire were used for testing its practical usability and adaptation. Results: All translations were reviewed and a consensus was reached on any discrepancy from the earlier versions. Over 90% of the newly translated version of K-ICF was found to be different from the 2004 K-ICF version in the ICF language. Understanding of K-ICF language was responded difficult and very difficult by 50% of participants, whereas its practical use was responded 'useful' by more than 50% of subjects. Conclusion: It can be suggested that the new version of K-ICF should be widely used for final adaptation in the field of areas. Future studies will be required for implementation of K-ICF.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.335-340
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• 1998

최근 컴퓨터 통신 기술의 발달로 인하여 교육분야에서의 컴퓨터 통신망을 이용한 학습의 효율성 증대에 대한 연구가 활발하다. 지금까지의 학습 방식은 교과목 특성의 개별성을 인식하지 못하거나 혹은 기술적인 문제점 등으로 인하여 학습자들에게 일관된 단답형이나 선다형의 학습 방식을 요구하여 왔다. 웹을 기반으로 한 원격 교육으로의 활용 측면에서 프랑스어와 같은 제2외국어의 경우, 한국어 환경에서의 프랑스어 악상 문자 입력이나 개별화된 저작 언어 개발 등의 문제점이 제기된다. $\lceil$Voila-web$\rfloor$ 은 한국어를 모국어로 하는 프랑스어 학습자들을 위한 교육 시스템으로 개별 교과목의 특성을 반영하고 능동적인 학습 방식을 통한 학습의 효율성 증대를 위한 시스템이다. 학습자들에게는 학습 자료의 전체적인 내용 흐름만을 제시하고 영역별 구체적인 자료의 전개는 다양한 교과 내용을 자유 항해할 수 있도록 설계되어 있다. 이는 학습자들로 하여금 통신망을 통한 컴퓨터 이용 학습의 장점을 기존의 학습 방식에 보완하여 보다 능동적인 학습 방식을 유도하여 학습의 효율성을 증대시킬 수 있다.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• no.5
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• pp.191-218
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to investigate the actual conditions of preschool English education, and teachers' and parents' recognition of preschool early English education in Cheonan-city. Recently the importance of English education as an essential means for communication in the whole world is emphasized in our society. That atmosphere makes the elementary schools offer English as a subject in their curriculums, and also many preschool education institutes begin to teach English in their education courses. However before we begin to teach English as a subject in the preschool education, we need to survey the actual conditions of preschools and recognition of teachers and parents. The first part of this study is to survey the theoretical foundations of early English education; 1) the definition of early English education. 2) the situation of early foreign language education in foreign countries. 3) the relationship between the language acquisition and the cognitive development. The second part is to analyze the results of the Questionnaire which was distributed among 86 teachers and 103 parents in Cheonan-city preschools. As a conclusion, some suggestions will be given for the development of early English education in the near future.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2001.10d
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• pp.267-272
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• 2001

구(phrase) 단위 또는 문장(sentence) 단위의 연어(collocation) 정보는 자연언어 처리를 위한 단일어 또는 이중어 데이터베이스를 구축할 수 있는 중요한 기초 자료가 될 뿐 아니라, 외국어 학습에서도 어휘 단계를 넘어선 학습 자료를 제공할 수 있다. 불어는 굴절 언어(inflectional language)로서 기본형 대 굴절형의 비율이 약 1:9 정도로 비교적 굴절 비율이 높은 언어다. 또한 불어 표제어 중 95% 이상을 차지하는 불어의 동사, 명사, 형용사 중 상당한 비율이 암기해야 할 목록(list)이라는 특성을 갖기 때문에 검색과 학습에 있어 오류가 지속적으로 일어나는 부분이다. 표제어의 검색의 경우 불어 굴절 현상을 지원하는 전자 사전이 개발되어 있지만 아직까지 연어 정보에서 굴절형을 지원할 수 사전 또는 데이터베이스는 개발되어 있지 않다. 본 연구의 목적은 전자 사전과 형태소 분석기를 이용하여 굴절형 처리를 지원할 수 있는 불-한 연어 데이터베이스를 구축하는데 있다. 이를 위해 부산대학교 언어정보 연구실에서 개발한 불어 형태소 분석기 Infection와 불-한 전자 사전 Franco를 사용하였으며, 지금까지 구축된 불-한 연어 정보는 94,965 개이다. 본 고에서는 두 정보를 이용하여 불어 굴절형 정보를 분석 및 생성하는 방식 및 불-한 연어 데이터베이스 구조를 살펴 본다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2006.10e
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• pp.51-56
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• 2006

일반적으로 운율 정보를 음성인식에 이용한 연구들에 있어서는 대부분 운율의 음향적 정보를 이용하는데 반하여, 본 연구에서는 운율어나 음절수와 같은 운율의 구조적 정보가 인식률 향상에 기여함을 보인다. 본 논문은 두 가지 운율 정보, 즉 운율어와 음절수를 이용하여 발음모델링을 할 경우에 음성인식기의 성능을 평가하는 것을 목표로 하는 것으로, 먼저, 운율어를 이용하여 위치 정보데이터의 가능한 모든 발음을 생성하고, 다시 음절 수를 기준으로 발음변이 수를 조절하는 방법을 제시한 다음, 제안한 방법에 의하여 생성한 발음사전을 이용하여 음성인식의 성능을 평가하였다. 실험결과 운율어를 이용하여 발음 사전을 제작한 모든 경우에 베이스라인과 비교하여 성능이 향상됨을 보였는데, 베이스라인의 WER 4.63% 에서 최대 8.4%의 WER 가 감소하였다. 위치 정보 데이터의 음절수에 따라서 발음 변이의 수를 조절한 결과도 전체적으로는 3 음절로 그 수를 제한한 경우, 6 음절이상 단어에서는 4음절로 제한한 경우에 가장 좋은 인식 성능을 얻을 수 있어서, 음절수에 따른 발음변이 수의 조절이 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.416-429
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• 2018

In social constructivist teaching, knowledge construction is achieved through learners' collective social interaction. Vygotsky argued that this process is mediated with language use, and the development of higher order thinking is realized through the transition from inter-personal psychological functions to intra-personal psychological functions. In so doing scientific concepts are internalized to learners. This study examined the third grade elementary students' inter/intra-personal psychological functions and their internalization processes during social constructivist teaching plan about strata and fossils. The lessons were designed along with Wells' dialogic inquiry and Leach and Scott's social constructivist teaching-learning sequences. Results showed that a teacher's utterances of talking with questioning to switch attention, creating cognitive disequilibrium, and expanding the width of students' opinions could make effective inter-personal psychological function. In addition, a learner's inner speech expressed into social discourse through talking about personal experiences, comparing epistemic idea with visual representation, or applying to different situation showed his/her intra-personal psychological function. Some cases of learners' internalization through language use could be at the stage of knowledge building and understanding of the spiral of knowing, but not all. Thus it is argued that a teacher's deeper insight into Vygotskian social constructivist teaching can make elementary science classroom teaching more effective in their inter/intra-psychological functions.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.241-252
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• 2023

Watercolour painting was introduced to China over a hundred years ago, and in the last two decades, it has developed rapidly, presenting a situation of diversified development. While Western-style watercolour painting has been adopted by Chinese painters, they have also expanded on it with their own aesthetic awareness and cognitive styles. As a result, Chinese watercolour painting has developed a set of expressive techniques that highlight the cultural characteristics of the nation in terms of aesthetics, concepts and techniques, resulting in a painting style with a distinctive national personality at present. Although Chinese watercolour painting has taken on a variety of styles with the intervention of modern and contemporary art, realistic watercolour painting is still the mainstream. However, there are obvious differences between the "realism" of Chinese watercolour painting and the "realism" of Western watercolour painting in terms of expression. The most distinctive feature is the "imagery" language of expression, which is closely linked to the cultural heritage of Chinese tradition and is of great value for research. I interpret the aesthetics, composition, colour and brushwork of Chinese realistic watercolour painting from the perspective of traditional Chinese aesthetics in order to deepen the understanding of Chinese realistic watercolour painting and to provide a reference for the further development of the art of Chinese realistic watercolour painting.