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Examining the Perceptual Learning Style Preferences of Korean EFL Middle School Students

  • Suh, Emily;Kim, Kyung Ja
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제18권1호
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    • pp.217-235
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptual learning style preferences of 97 Korean EFL students in middle school. Furthermore, it examined if students' learning styles varied in terms of gender and grade level. Data was collected by using Reid's (1987) PLSPQ and a personal background questionnaire and was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, MANOVA, ANOVA, and t-test. The results revealed that subjects had all six major learning styles but among them, auditory, group, and visual styles were the most preferred by them. The results found in this study, presented that Korean EFL middle school students favored learning English through listening, reading and working in groups and that younger students preferred learning through physical involvement and practicum. The findings of this study provide a number of useful insights for EFL and ESL educators and instructors in Korea. The current study suggests that a great number of variables such as culture, learning situation of the target country, age, and grade level can all play important roles in shaping the learning preferences and the learning styles of students. Considering these variables and promoting a curriculum that is interesting, appealing and successful may help maximize student L2 learning.

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A Study on Error Analysis & Hedging Expressions of Medical Research Abstracts

  • 이은표
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.47-66
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    • 2007
  • Error analysis plays an important role because understanding the types of errors can give a better opportunity for both teachers and learners to recognize the nature of errors and ways of preventing them. This study looks into errors in the medical research abstracts written by 26 Koreans and also examines hedging expressions since hedging can be a necessary tactic in which the validity and objectivity of their claims is conveyed. The hedging expressions of these research abstracts are to be compared with those of Hyland (1996)'s study done on ENL academic writers of cell and molecular biology. The results of the study reveal that wrong word choice was the most commonly occurred errors, followed by prepositions, articles, adding and missing words. Many of these errors, except articles, seemed to derive from the native language interference. There were also run-on sentences, subject & verb agreement, tense, word order and minor errors. As for hedging, ESL medical writers seemed to use very limited hedging expressions and inappropriately strong modals. It is recommended to take variations of hedges using epistemic adverbials and adjectives to present their claims in a more valid and polite way. Limited verb choice was also noted. As for preventing or minimizing similar future errors, collocation practices in ESP focused on commonly used medical related words and expressions can be effective.

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고주파용 디커플링 임베디드 캐패시터에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Embedded Capacitor for High Frequency Decoupling)

  • 홍근기;홍순관
    • 한국산학기술학회논문지
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.918-923
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    • 2008
  • 본 논문에서는 전극들이 동일한 평면상에 놓이고, Gap에 의하여 유전간격을 형성한 새로운 구조의 임베디드 캐패시터(EC)를 제안하였다. 제안된 EC의 이름을 Gap type EC라고 하고, 유한요소법으로 그 특성을 평가하였다. Cap type EC의 공진주파수는 기존의 EC에 비하여 고주파 대역으로 이동되었다. 또한 공진주파수는 전극의 크기와 두께에 따라 변화되었다. Gap type EC는 Gap size가 $50{\mu}m$일 때 $55pF/cm^2$의 정전용량을 나타내었다. 이 값은 기존의 EC가 나타내는 $25pF/cm^2$에 비하여 높은 값이다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제안한 Gap type EC는 고주파 디커플링 용도로 충분히 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

Symbolic Violence of the Native Speaker Fallacy: A Qualitative Case Study of an NNES Teacher

  • Choi, Soo-Joung
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제15권3호
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    • pp.33-57
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    • 2009
  • Taking the issues of inequity and power between NES and NNES teachers as a starting point, this qualitative study explores the way the widespread belief of the native speaker fallacy manifests itself in one NNES teacher's teaching life and is linked to the teacher's understanding of herself as an English teacher. Guided by critical applied linguistics (Pennycook, 2001) and using Bourdieu's (1991) theorization of symbolic violence, I conducted an instrumental case study (Stake, 1995) in an ESL writing class at a US university. I collected data through classroom observations and interviews over a nine-month period and analyzed the data using the constant comparison method (Glaser and Strauss, 1967). The findings illustrate the ways the dominant ideology of the native speaker fallacy works to maintain and reproduce the status quo unequal relation between NES and NNES teachers by making all parties involved believe in the artificial sociocultural arrangements that favor NES teachers as legitimate. The findings direct our attention to the importance of critical teacher education that will enable future TESOL professionals to engage in critical reflection on diverse issues and envision transformative change. The findings, in particular, point to the need for language support for NNES teachers in TESOL teacher education.

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클럭 게이팅 적용회로의 상위수준 전력 모델링 (High-level Power Modeling of Clock Gated Circuits)

  • 김종규;이준환
    • 전자공학회논문지
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    • 제52권10호
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    • pp.56-63
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    • 2015
  • SoC (System-on-Chip) 설계초기 상위수준에서 성능뿐만 아니라 전력 분석이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 상위수준에서 전력 분석 정확도가 높은 클럭 게이팅 구동 신호 기반 전력 모델을 제안한다. 클럭 게이팅 구동 신호의 조합으로 전력 상태를 정의하며, 클럭 게이팅 구동 신호를 자동으로 추출하여 전력 모델을 자동으로 생성할 수 있다. 실험 결과 평균 96% 이상의 정확도를 보였으며, 상위수준에서의 전력 분석 속도는 게이트 수준 대비 평균 280배 빠른 속도향상을 보였다.

등가정하중을 이용한 접합날개의 구조최적설계 (Structural Optimization of a Joined-Wing Using Equivalent Static Loads)

  • 이현아;김용일;박경진;강병수
    • 대한기계학회논문집A
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    • 제30권5호
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    • pp.585-594
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    • 2006
  • The joined-wing is a new concept of the airplane wing. The fore-wing and the aft-wing are joined together in a joined-wing. The range and loiter are longer than those of a conventional wing. The joined-wing can lead to increased aerodynamic performance and reduction of the structural weight. In this research, dynamic response optimization of a joined-wing is carried out by using equivalent static loads. Equivalent static loads are made to generate the same displacement field as the one from dynamic loads at each time step of dynamic analysis. The gust loads are considered as critical loading conditions and they dynamically act on the structure of the aircraft. It is difficult to identify the exact gust load profile. Therefore, the dynamic loads are assumed to be (1-cosine) function. Static response optimization is performed for the two cases. One uses the same design variable definition as dynamic response optimization. The other uses the thicknesses of all elements as design variables. The results are compared.

인공와우 시뮬레이션에서 나타난 건청인 영어학습자의 영어 말소리 지각 (Korean ESL Learners' Perception of English Segments: a Cochlear Implant Simulation Study)

  • 임애리;김다히;이석재
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제6권3호
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2014
  • Although it is well documented that patients with cochlear implant experience hearing difficulties when processing their first language, very little is known whether or not and to what extent cochlear implant patients recognize segments in a second language. This preliminary study examines how Korean learners of English identify English segments in a normal hearing and cochlear implant simulation conditions. Participants heard English vowels and consonants in the following three conditions: normal hearing condition, 12-channel noise vocoding with 0mm spectral shift, and 12-channel noise vocoding with 3mm spectral shift. Results confirmed that nonnative listeners could also retrieve spectral information from vocoded speech signal, as they recognized vowel features fairly accurately despite the vocoding. In contrast, the intelligibility of manner and place features of consonants was significantly decreased by vocoding. In addition, we found that spectral shift affected listeners' vowel recognition, probably because information regarding F1 is diminished by spectral shifting. Results suggest that patients with cochlear implant and normal hearing second language learners would experience different patterns of listening errors when processing their second language(s).

Analysis of Certificateless Signcryption Schemes and Construction of a Secure and Efficient Pairing-free one based on ECC

  • Cao, Liling;Ge, Wancheng
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • 제12권9호
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    • pp.4527-4547
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    • 2018
  • Signcryption is a cryptographic primitive that provides authentication (signing) and confidentiality (encrypting) simultaneously at a lower computational cost and communication overhead. With the proposition of certificateless public key cryptography (CLPKC), certificateless signcryption (CLSC) scheme has gradually become a research hotspot and attracted extensive attentions. However, many of previous CLSC schemes are constructed based on time-consuming pairing operation, which is impractical for mobile devices with limited computation ability and battery capacity. Although researchers have proposed pairing-free CLSC schemes to solve the issue of efficiency, many of them are in fact still insecure. Therefore, the challenging problem is to keep the balance between efficiency and security in CLSC schemes. In this paper, several existing CLSC schemes are cryptanalyzed and a new CLSC scheme without pairing based on elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC) is presented. The proposed CLSC scheme is provably secure against indistinguishability under adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack (IND-CCA2) and existential unforgeability under adaptive chosen-message attack (EUF-CMA) resting on Gap Diffie-Hellman (GDH) assumption and discrete logarithm problem in the random oracle model. Furthermore, the proposed scheme resists the ephemeral secret leakage (ESL) attack, public key replacement (PKR) attack, malicious but passive KGC (MPK) attack, and presents efficient computational overhead compared with the existing related CLSC schemes.

인터넷이 제공하는 언어 습득의 새로운 방법 활용 (On Exploiting New Methods of Language Acquisition Offered by the Internet)

  • 최미희 미쉘
    • 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.111-116
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    • 2013
  • 강의실에서 활동이 영어 학습자들로 하여금 그 유창성을 익히도록 하는데 제한적이기 때문에 언어에서 기술의 사용은 교육 도구로 매우 중요하다. 학습자의 주요 학습의 주제를 포함하고 있는 온라인 상의 보충자료를 얼마나 활용하느냐는 학습자의 학습 능력 향사에 결정적인 역할을 한다. 이 논문의 목적은 인터넷을 통해 제공 되어지는 모든 잠재적인 가능성의 활용에 근거하여 언어 습득에 관한 새로운 접근 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 영어 쓰기 과제를 학생들이 수행하는 과정에서 인터넷을 활용하는 효과적인 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 또한 학생들의 참여와 그 영어쓰기 실력 향상과의 비례관계를 보여준다.

재료-기하비선형을 고려한 이방성 적층평판의 p-Version 유한요소해석 (p-Version Finite Element Analysis of Anisotropic Laminated Plates considering Material-Geometric Nonlinearities)

  • 홍종현;박진환;우광성
    • 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전산구조공학회 2002년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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    • pp.319-326
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    • 2002
  • A p-version finite element model based on degenerate shell element is proposed for the analysis of orthotropic laminated plates. In the nonlinear formulation of the model, the total Lagrangian formulation is adopted with large deflection and moderate rotation being accounted for in the sense of von Karman hypothesis. The material model Is based on the Huber-Mises yield criterion and Prandtl-Reuss flow rule in accordance with the theory of strain hardening yield function, which is generalized for anisotropic materials by introducing the parameters of anisotropy. The model is also based on extension of equivalent-single layer laminate theory(ESL theory) with shear deformation, leading to continuous shear strain at the interface of two layers. The Integrals of Legendre Polynomials we used for shape functions with p-level varying from 1 to 10. Gauss-Lobatto numerical quadrature is used to calculate the stresses at the nodal points instead of Gauss points. The validity of the proposed p-version finite element model is demonstrated through several comparative points of view in terms of ultimate load, convergence characteristics, nonlinear effect, and shape of plastic zone

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