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On Optimal Conditions in Setting Up Tasks for the Elementary Classroom: A Case Study of Two Classes

  • Kim, Jin-Seok
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.121-134
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the optimal conditions for designing tasks appropriate to the elementary classroom based on the correspondence with the national curriculum, integration among four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), authenticity, and interactivity. For this study, two primary English teachers volunteered to participate in the case study conducted in the spring semester of the 2012 school year. Each class observed was composed of 29 and 30 sixth graders (12-year-old learners). Data were collected through classroom observation and lesson plans. Optimality theory was used to analyze data from the lessons. From the findings, the overall ranking of constraints is Curriculum ${\gg}$ Integration ${\gg}$ Authenticity ${\gg}$ Interactivity. It is also shown that for teacher 'L', the tasks such as 'guessing game', 'photo of me', and 'role play' were appropriate to help students ask questions and give reasons for their choices. As for teacher 'C', the tasks such as 'hand spans', 'transport survey', and 'picture telling' needed to be considered in order to help students understand and write comparative sentences.

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Effectiveness of e-Sports Online Training Program for Relieving Youth Game Over-flow: Focusing on 'Online LoL(League of Legends) Game School' (청소년 게임 과몰입 해소를 위한 e-스포츠 온라인 수련활동 프로그램 효과성 연구 : '온라인 롤(League of Legends: LoL) 게임학교'를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Junghye Fran;Bang, Seungho
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.133-142
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    • 2021
  • This study investigated the effectiveness of 'League of Legends (LoL) game school', an e-sports online training program for relieving youth game over-flow. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's Student Education Institute ran the program. Through this study, it was found that various activities to learn an e-sports game professionally and to explore career paths regarding game had positive effects on students' affections and intrinsic motivation. This study may contribute to helping youth as generation Z understand a healthy game culture.

A Preliminary Study on Serious Game for C Language Study of Beginners : freCman (초보자를 위한 C 언어 학습 기능성 게임 개발 사례 : 프레C맨)

  • Hwang, Kitae;Jung, Inhwan
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.199-206
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    • 2015
  • This paper introduces a serious game called freCman developed for C programming language beginners. Since key words, syntax, and programming structure of C programming language are unfamiliar for them, they feel uneasy and have many difficulties to study. We developed three games such as shooting star C, finding hidden errors, unscrambling C codes through which C beginners can study C language easily. Also we developed CTS(Code to Speech) which speeches C source codes like English statements so that C beginners can be familiar with C key words and statements. To prove effectiveness of the freCman, some experiments have been conducted with C language beginners. Experiment results show that the freCman helps beginners studying C programming language much.

Spudsville: Designing a Minecraft Game for learning teaching English as a Second Language (스퍼드빌: 제2언어로서의 영어학습을 위한 마인크래프트 게임 설계)

  • Baek, Youngkyun;Kim, Jeongkyoum;Sam, Eisenberg
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.143-157
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    • 2022
  • The aim of this study is to design Spudsville, an immersive game environment in Minecraft that can effectively help learners acquire the English language. To create a successful learning experience using Minecraft, the researchers adopted the Agile Model and the Design Thinking approach. The researchers first conducted an analysis through an extensive literature review in order to assess the learners' needs. Afterwards, they designed and developed a Minecraft world based on the data collected during the analysis phase. The researchers learned that implementing constructivist and behaviorist approaches has benefits, even though applying a cognitivist-learning model to Spudsville could have provided the researchers with more insight on how learner processes information. Making these adjustments could improve Spudsville's effectiveness and could potentially help the ways in which gamified learning aids with language acquisition.

Application of Variant Game Elements System for Phonics Education (파닉스 적용 사례로 본 게임 요소 가변 시스템)

  • Seo, Eun-Hye;Kyung, Byung-Pyo;Ryu, Seuc-Ho;Lee, Wan-Bok
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.113-121
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    • 2010
  • This study proposes an educational game system that fit for portable internet environment as a solution to disadvantages of conventional education systems such as lack of understanding learners' learning level and one-way learning. The study analyses conventional e-Learning contents and platforms and proposes a new system adequate for high contents reusability and user-demand service. The learning contents that mainly consist of animations and games can be adjusted to learners' level, and therefore, learners can study according to various scenarios, not constrained in a fixed pattern. Our system is expected to bring much more fun to learners and the education can be conducted more effectively. To show the effectiveness of our system, an example of english pronunciation game was illustrated. As a result, the week points of the conventional e-Learning was overcame and new features of the interactivity was adopted to build a more effective educational game system.

The Guessing Model Revisited: A Case Study of a Korean Young Learner

  • Yim, Su Yon
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.273-290
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents a case study involving one Korean primary school student and people around him in order to explore the reading process in English of a young Korean EFL learner and to investigate the social context in which his reading takes place. Six participants were included in the study (one primary school student and five adult participants). The student participant was asked to read a text in English and translate what he read into Korean and the teacher participants were asked to listen to the student's reading. Semi-structured interview was used to collect data from the student as well as five adult participants (his private tutor, his parent, his state school teacher, and two other state school teachers). The analysis reveals four characteristics of the way a young EFL learner approaches reading: word-by-word reading, disconnected word recognition, selective use of cues, and lack of awareness of difficulties. The four characteristics of Kilsu's reading suggest that reading can become a wild guessing game for young foreign learners, if they give selective attention to unimportant cues while reading. The pedagogical implications of this study are also discussed to help teachers designing reading lessons for young learners.

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Effectiveness of G-Learning(Teaching and Learning Methodology utilizing Game) adopted in an English Class for 5th Grade Elementary School Students (초등학교 5학년 영어수업에 적용된 G러닝(게임을 활용한 교수학습 방법)의 학습 효과)

  • Won, Eun-Sok;Wi, Jong-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.541-554
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    • 2012
  • This study suggests the effectiveness of G-learning English afterschool classes implemented to elementary school students at low achievement level in English. These days, the use of games in teaching and learning, known as G-learning, has gradually expanded, so it is necessary to consider how to adapt G-learning generally in English education. A G-learning afterschool English class was implemented to 23 low-level 5th grade students in an elementary school located in Daejon for 12 weeks. This study set two hypotheses aiming to determine the effectiveness in achievement and affectiveness of the participants. Pre and post achievement tests were conducted. Also, survey and FGI (focused group interview) were carried out twice with the participants. The study found that students' spelling awareness, vocabulary recognition and dialogue comprehension ability (hypothesis 1) were all improved with statistical significance. Moreover, after the class, participants' confidence and interest toward English study showed meaningful increases.

3D Network Game Development for Education and Publicity of Resource Recycling Study on Contents Technology (자원재활용 교육홍보를 위한 3D 네트워크 게임 개발)

  • Oh Seung-Taek;Jun Byung-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.407-411
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    • 2005
  • In this research, we develop 3D online racing game to aid the comprehension about resource recycling, in the way of provoking children's interest and satisfying scientific curiosity, using 3D graphic editor and DirectX programming tool. This game is developed for children to experience the collection and classification procedure of recycling resources by only taking part in a game naturally, and to learn recycling-process contents produced using animation technique. Especially, we make this game to utilize it as an educational and public medium at home and abroad, and to interchange with foreign institutes, by offering korean version as well as english version. As a result, this game can be used as educational contents about resource recycling, because it is developed in the style that children can enjoy it directly.

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Analysis of Visual Attention in Bank Brand Logo using Eye-Tracking (시선추적장치를 활용한 은행 브랜드 로고의 시각적 주의집중도 분석 연구)

  • Park, Min Hee;Hwang, Mi Kyung;Kim, Chee Yong;Kwon, Mahn Woo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.9
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    • pp.1210-1218
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    • 2020
  • This study selected brand logos of six South Korean and Chinese banks including KB, IBK, SH, ICBC, ABC, and SISB, conducted Eye Tracking experiment among 36 South Korean and Chinese university students(Nine male and female students, respectively), and analyzed the difference of visual attention of consumers on bank brand logo, symbol, Korean/Chinese character logo types as well as the difference of visual attention of these consumers on English logo types. Results were represented by using statistics and visualization including GAZEPLOT, HEATMAP, and visual expression. Results showed that most generally gazed logo types more often and longer than symbols when they watched bank brand logos. A slight difference was observed between both groups in terms of gazing English logo types. This study has a implication that it proposed the possibility of drawing quantitative and reliable outcomes by utilizing eye tracking device and approaching in an objective standpoint beyond a methodological aspect on bank brand logo primarily leaning over the analysis of case research or design development. Moreover, findings are expected to serve as basic data for proposing the direction of special bank brand logo design and marketing strategies.

Phonological Awareness Integrated Instruction: The Effect of Analogies/Anagrams on Vocabulary Acquisition Scores

  • Pak, Hubert H.
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.195-212
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    • 2011
  • Research studies have shown that phonological awareness focused analogies and anagrams can be used as an effective game-based teaching instruction. However, previous studies used analogies and anagrams as separate instructional tools, especially in EFL-related situations. There has been no vocabulary learning in analogies/anagrams instruction provided, nor has there been usage of an integrated workbook for 'vocabulary learning and analogies/anagrams'. This study examined the effect on learners' vocabulary acquisition scores when a truly phonological awareness integrated 'analogies/anagrams and vocabulary learning' workbook was used as an instructional practice workbook. The results show that the phonological awareness integrated instruction significantly increased learners' vocabulary acquisition scores among 40 college students with minimal or basic level of English proficiency.

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