• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.225-243
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• 2009

This study investigates the use of different speech act of apology strategies between male and female EFL college students by comparing the components of intensity, stylistic competence, and semantic formulas. The data was collected from 37 participants who were studying freshmen English reading course at the Department of English Education of C University in Seoul. Most students were English majors taking pre-teacher course of teaching English for secondary school students. The participants were divided into two gender groups of male and female. The discourse completion test (DCT) which was revised from the speech act of apology by Olshtain and Cohen (1990) was provided with the participants after the researcher explained the speech act of apology in ten situations. The speech act of apology depends on situation variables: social solidarity, severity of offense, and social status. The results show that in the preference of intensity, male and female have almost the similar ratio in high (female: 24.7%, male 24%) and low intensity (female: 75.3%, male: 76%). In the use of stylistic competence, male group (21%) expresses more diversely formal features than female group (12%), while female (87%) use more informal features than male (66%). Most of participants show a limitation in the use of speaking four types of semantic formulas: expression of apology (APOL), acknowledgment of responsibility (RESP), offer of repair (REPR), and promise of forbearance (FORB). As nonnative speakers, the participants cannot conduct the semantic formula in some situations regardless of the tasks provided. The results suggest that English teachers should recognize pragmatic variations in which students feel difficulty in appropriate speaking strategies on apology. This study also contributes to teaching learners the strategies and speaking patterns in the course of various apology situations.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2024

최근 AI기반 온라인 번역 도구의 활용도가 높아짐에 따라 이에 대한 교육적 활용 방안 및 효과에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 초등 예비교사를 30명을 대상으로 AI기반 온라인 번역도구를 활용한 영작문 과업을 수행하고 영어 글쓰기 능력에 미치는 영향과 실제적 경험을 기반으로 AI번역도구에 대한 활용 가능성, 교육적 활용도 및 장단점 등에 대한 인식을 살펴보았다. 작문시험, 설문조사와 인터뷰를 통해 수집된 자료를 바탕으로 분석한 결과, 영어 글쓰기의 완성도 및 충실도에 있어서 유의미한 증가를 보였으며, 학습자들의 인식에서도 번역도구의 사용은 학습에 대한 즉각적인 지원과 편의성을 제공, 효과적인 도구활용을 위한 교육적 전략의 필요성에 대한 긍정적 인식도 나타났으나, 번역의 완성도나 정확성을 높이기 위한 방법, 도구 활용에 대한 과용과 의존성에 대한 우려도 제기되었다. 번역도구의 효과적 활용을 위해서 교육적 전략이나 교사의 역할의 중요한 것으로 나타났다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제9권2호
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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.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.179-208
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• 2001

Using literary materials as resources for English learning rather than an object of literary study can be a genuine tool for the students to learn English in the form of oral and written communication. This case study treated the applications of a whole text to the overall course divided into pre-reading activities, while-reading activities, and post-reading activities and the applications of some partial passages extracted from various texts to teaching objectives with many levels of difficulty. This study found that literary texts could be good materials to teach the target language in EFL setting. The English-speaking students with little linguistic competence as a foreign language may be limited in learning English at first, but soon they can accelerate their linguistic competence by reinforcing the literary competence through the literary texts. To achieve effectively a desired goal through the use of literary texts as resources for language development several concrete techniques should be introduced: teacher-guided question strategies laying a central emphasis on the text itself, a problem-solving ability through student-centered activities, process-based and open-ended activities should be presented in a variety of ways using many appropriate activities according to teaching procedure with a careful selection of the texts.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.161-182
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• 2010

The goals of this study were to identify differences in learners' and teachers' perspectives on EFL learners' language anxiety, to identify the differences among teachers coping with learners' language anxiety, and to find how learners cope with their language anxiety. The research was effectuated by means of a survey questionnaire and interviews. The data were collected from 92 teachers and 230 students in four different school settings. There were the $6^{th}$ grade 50 primary school learners, the $2^{nd}$ grade 60 middle school learners, the $11^{th}$ grade 60 high school learners of, and the $2^{nd}$ and $3^{rd}$ grade 60 university learners. There were also 26 primary school teachers, 22 middle school teachers, 21 high school teachers, and 23 university teachers. The findings reveal that there were differences in responses among the respondents. The findings suggest that teachers need to pay attention to their particular learners' anxiety sources: especially in the case of primary school setting, the activity of answering teachers' questions for teachers was the primary source of learner's anxiety, in the case of middle school settings, translating sentences in English into Korean, in the case of high school setting, checking unknown vocabulary, and in the case of university settings, university learners felt anxious when classmates spoke fluently. The implications of the study indicate that these aspects should be handled carefully to motivate certain group of learners.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.779-790
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• 2021

영화리터러시는 영화를 구성하고 있는 요소에 대한 이해와 영화 내용에 대한 이해, 그리고 비판적이고 창의적인 사고과정을 통해 새롭게 창작을 하는 과정을 포함한다. 영화리터러시를 글쓰기, 과학, 사회, 지리 등 교과에 적용하거나 인문학적인 소양 기르기, 비판적 사고 능력함양 등에 활용되고 있으나, 영화에서 대사가 차지하고 있는 큰 비중을 고려해보면, 영화 속 영어 대사를 이용한 리터러시 교육이 의외로 적다는 것을 알 수 있다. 영화 영어는 실제적이고 진정성 있는 자료로 우리나라와 같은 EFL 환경에서는 영어 학습 교재로 매우 적합하다. 그러나 영화를 이용한 교수학습 방법은 영화 내용과 장르별로 달라지기 때문에, 교사가 수업을 구성하고 준비하는 데 어려움을 겪는다. 본 논문에서는, 영화를 이용한 영어교실에 공통으로 적용해볼 수 있는 수업 활동을 분석, 문화, 창의 영역으로 나누어 총 6가지를 제안하였고, 이를 대학교 교양 영어 수업에서 405명을 대상으로 실시한 후 설문 조사를 통해 선호도를 알아보기 위해 빈도분석을 하였다. 그 결과 학생들이 가장 선호한 활동은 문화, 분석, 창의 순으로 나타났으며 영어 수업을 벗어나는 창의적 활동이나 교수자가 일방적으로 제공하는 추가 자료는 학습자에게 부담을 줄 수 있다는 사실을 인지하고 지도해야 한다.