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영어교과서에 활용된 사용자 행위 반영형 인포그래픽 유형 분석: 교수·학습기준에 따른 유형을 중심으로 (User Behaviors Involved Infographic and the Analysis of Their Specific Types Appearing in the Middle School English Textbook : Focusing on the Types According to the Teaching-learning Standards)

  • 전은경;한지애;류시천
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제15권5호
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    • pp.651-660
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    • 2015
  • 본 연구는 교수 학습 기준이 타 과목과 상이한 영어교과목에서 교육목표에 부합한 인포그래픽의 활용방법을 고찰하기 위해 진행되었다. 연구목표는 영어교과서에서 활용도가 높은 '학습을 통해 완성해 가는 인포그래픽', 즉, "사용자 행위 반영형 인포그래픽(User behaviors involved infographic)"의 활용 유형과 특성을 분석하는 것이다. 교수 학습 기준에 따른 분석을 바탕으로, 영어교과서에 사용된 인포그래픽을 '총체적개념중심', '의미중심', '의미작용중심' 인포그래픽 3가지 유형으로 제안하였으며, 다이어그램의 구성 수준에 따라 주요 시각화 속성을 '개요', '구조', '관계', '순서', '상태변화', '메세지'로 도출하였다. 연구를 통한 주요 발견점은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 2개 이상의 시각화 속성을 바탕으로 표현되어야 하는 "의미작용중심 인포그래픽"의 다양한 시각적 표현방법에 대한 연구가 필요함을 발견하였다. 둘째, 영어교과서에서 활용되고 있는 인포그래픽이 정보디자인 분야에서의 활용 목적과 상충되어, 이에 따른 교육 효과에 대한 검증이 필요함을 발견하였다.

A Korean Elementary School EFL Teacher's Implementation of Teacher-Based Assessment

  • Kang, Dae-Min
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.19-37
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    • 2011
  • This study examines a Korean elementary school EFL teacher's practice of teacher-based assessment (TBA), a subject which has been little researched despite the authorities' strong call for its implementation. The classroom interactions for TBA were observed and audio-recorded in eight fifth-grade classes between March and June 2010. Additionally, the teacher and students were interviewed in a semi-structured way. The results showed that the teacher used three types of TBA: assessment of individual students on different topics, assessment of the entire class on the same topic, and assessment of individual students on the same topic. Due mainly to time constraints during class time and classroom management issues, the teacher preferred implementing the first two types of TBA. During the practice of the types, the teacher provided prompts or posed questions in ways that elicited responses which were short in length and easy. Although the third type of TBA was perceived by both the teacher and students as helping students enhance their EFL proficiency and was the most favored by the students, it was viewed by the teacher as having the potential of causing classroom management difficulties. Based on the findings, a number of implications are suggested.

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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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Sensitive Period of Auditory Perception and Linguistic Discrimination

  • Cha, Kyung-Whan;Jo, Hannah
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to scientifically examine Kuhl's (2011), originally Johnson and Newport's (1989) critical period graph, from a perspective of auditory perception and linguistic discrimination. This study utilizes two types of experiments (auditory perception and linguistic phoneme discrimination) with five different age groups (5 years, 6-8 years, 9-13 years, 15-17 years, and 20-26 years) of Korean English learners. Auditory perception is examined via ultrasonic sounds that are commonly used in the medical field. In addition, each group is measured in terms of their ability to discriminate minimal pairs in Chinese. Since almost all Korean students already have some amount of English exposure, the researchers selected phonemes in Chinese, an unexposed foreign language for all of the subject groups. The results are almost completely in accordance with Kuhl's critical period graph for auditory perception and linguistic discrimination; a sensitive age is found at 8. The results show that the auditory capability of kindergarten children is significantly better than that of other students, measured by their ability to perceive ultrasonic sounds and to distinguish ten minimal pairs in Chinese. This finding strongly implies that human auditory ability is a key factor for the sensitive period of language acquisition.

일개 대학병원 직원의 인사고과성적 예측요인 (The Predictors of Employees' Personnel Rating at a University Hospital in Korea)

  • 권순창;서영준
    • 한국병원경영학회지
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2005
  • This study purports to investigate the determinants of individual personnel rating of the employees at a university hospital in Seoul, Korea. The sample used in this study consisted of 63 nurses, 41 para-medical staff (Clinical Pathologist, and Radiologist), and 67 administrative staff. Independent variables of the study included the achievement level of the selection test (English, major subject, and interview), post-entrance development factors (education and training, career development, supervisory support, co-worker support, and organizational support), and demographic characteristics. Data for the achievement level of the entrance exam and years for the first promotion were collected from the administrative records of the study hospital, while data for the post-entrance development factors were collected from the survey with self-administered questionnaires using 5-point Likert Scale during June 10-25, 2003. Collected data were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression. The results of the study showed that achievement level of the interview and English exam at the selection test, education and training, organizational support, and supervisory support while working at the hospital, and length of duration (below 8 years) and educational background (4-year college graduates) among demographic variables had significant positive effects on the personnel rating. The results of the study imply that hospital administrators should make an effort to improve the validity of the selection test, and to motivate the employees to receive more education and training.

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The Use of Phonetics in the Analysis of the Acquisition of Second Language Syntax

  • Fellbaum, Marie
    • 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한음성학회 1996년도 10월 학술대회지
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    • pp.430-431
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    • 1996
  • Among the scholars of second language (L2) acquisition who have used prosodic considerations in syntactic analyses, pausing and intonation contours have been used to define utterances in the speech of second language learners (e.g., Sato, 1990). In recent research on conversational analysis, it has been found that lexically marked causal clause combining in the discourse of native speakers can be distinguished as "intonational subordination" and "intonational coordination(Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, forthcoming.)". This study uses Pienemann's Processability Theory (1995) for an analysis of the speech of native speakers of Japanese (L1) learning English. In order to accurately assess the psycholinguistic stages of syntactic development, it is shown that pitch, loudness, and timing must all be considered together with the syntactic analysis of interlanguage speech production. Twelve Japanese subjects participated in eight fifteen minute interviews, ninety-six dyads. The speech analyzed in this report is limited to the twelve subjects interacting with two different non-native speaker interviews for a total of twenty-four dyads. Within each of the interviews, four different tasks are analyzed to determine the stage of acquisition of English for each subject. Initially the speech is segmented according to intonation contour arid pauses. It is then classified accoding to specific syntactic units and further analysed for pitch, loudness and timing. Results indicate that the speech must be first claasified prosodic ally and lexically, prior to beginning syntactic analysis. This analysis stinguishes three interlanguage lexical categories: discourse markers, coordinator $s_ordinators, and transfer from Japanese. After these lexical categories have been determined, the psycholinguistic stages of syntactic development can be more accurately assessed.d.

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Connectivity Effects and Questions as Specificational Subjects

  • Yoo, Eun-Jung
    • 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.21-45
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    • 2006
  • Connectivity effects have been central issues in dealing with specificational pseudoclefts. While syntactic approaches motivate their analysis in order to explain connectivity effects in terms of a connected clause, these accounts have numerous problems including a wide range of anti-connectivity effects that constitute crucial counterevidence. On the other hand, semantic accounts of connectivity effects treat BV and BT connectivity by independent interpretive mechanisms providing a more fundamental explanation for connectivity effects. Yet existing semantic accounts have limitations in explaining syntactic properties and syntactic connectivity effects in SPCs, and in accounting for BV anti-connectivity effects in English. Focusing on BV connectivity, this paper explores how the relevant (anti-)connectivity facts can be accounted for by an analysis that provides both an elaborate syntactic analysis of SPCs and a semantic mechanism for bound anaphora. Based on Yoo's (2005) non-deletion based, question-answer pair analysis of SPCs, this paper shows that a functional question analysis of a specificational subject, when combined with a theory of operator scope and a non-configurational condition on bound anaphora, can explain various BV (anti-)connectivity patterns in SPCs and related constructions.

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포스트모던 제국의 우울증-데이빗 헨리 황의 『엠. 버터플라이』 (David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly: Postmodern Other, (Post-)Imperialist Melancholy and Western Masculinity in Crisis)

  • 박미선
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제54권4호
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    • pp.579-597
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    • 2008
  • This article discusses David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly as a suggestive text for examining Western masculinity in crisis in the post-imperialist age, in which territorial imperialism is no longer valid. Previous scholarship on M. Butterfly has centered around the interlocking dynamics of imperialism, racism and sexism. Such critical attentions focus on how Hwang deconstructs racialized significations of the East and the West. In these discussions, the issue of gender is often addressed merely as a trope to represent the power relations between the East and the West. As such, gender as well as sexuality is highlighted as the very source of subversion of the power relations. My discussion departs from a critique of the gendered trope of the East and the West, highlighting a postmodern agent, the allegedly feminized character Song Lining: a Chinese actor who passes for a woman for political purposes in postcolonial China. Remaining an "inappropriate/d other" in the gendered imperialist discourse, Song becomes an emergent subject, who is capable of playing gender ambiguity for reclaiming a devalued identity, that of homosexual Asian man. Discussing how the central character Rene Gallimard's masculine identity is constructed in a cross-cultural space and how it evolves, I also argue that Gallimard's melancholic death signifies a historical unsustainability of imperialist masculinity in the postmodern/postcolonial age since World War II.

영어 부정 스트리핑 구문의 중의성 해소에 관한 연구: 직접 해석 접근법을 중심으로 (Resolving the Ambiguities of Negative Stripping Construction in English : A Direct Interpretation Approach)

  • 김소지;조세연
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제52권
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    • pp.393-416
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    • 2018
  • 영어의 부정 스트리핑 구문은 접속사 but, 부사 not, 그리고 하나의 구성성분 NP로 구성되어있다. 해당 구문은 통사적으로는 불완전한 문장처럼 보이지만 의미적으로는 완전한 해석을 전달하며 특히, 이 구문은 중의적인 해석을 가질 수도 있기 때문에 적절한 접근방법으로 의미부를 분석하는 것이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 부정 스트리핑 구문의 통사적 구문생성과 중의성 해소를 위해 직접 해석 접근법(Direct Interpretation Approach)을 기반으로 한 구문 규칙을 제안하고자 한다. 이 규칙은 이전의 연구들이 해결하지 못하는 문제점을 설명할 수 있으며, 통사, 의미, 화용론 등 다양한 특성을 설명해준다.

미국 원주민 문학과 보편성 문제-실코의 『의식』을 중심으로 (Native American Literature and the Question of Universality Focusing on Silko's Ceremony)

  • 김지영
    • 영미문화
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.97-125
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    • 2014
  • This paper delves into the question of universality in Native American Literature focusing on Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, exploring some different definitions of universality and looking at the work in the light of these definitions. In this paper I proposed four possible definitions or faces of universality applicable to the narrative of the oppressed people. Firstly, the colonizers indoctrinate their colonized persons with the colonialists' beliefs through the process of assimilation purposefully imposed in the name of universality. In Ceremony Rocky and Emo are the victims of assimilation including militarization. Secondly, the colonized people hold on to their traditional values in face of colonizers' universalism. In Ceremony Tayo shows an attachment to tribal stories in opposition to whites' lies. Thirdly, the colonized can get together by sharing experiences of violence, occupation, and loss of their land and language, forming a bond of "commonality" among them. In Ceremony the story of a medicine man, Betonie, suggests oneness of victims against the evil power of destroyers represented by nuclear bombs. Fourthly and lastly, the universal consists in the subject's trial and practice attempting to achieve universalism against the existing order, not in the stipulation defining what is universal. In the story Tayo endeavors to retrieve his cattle by transgressing whites' property and makes a hole in the established dichotomy of whites and Indians. In sum, Ceremony as a minor literature shows the developmental aspects of universality, culminating in Tayo's refusal to assimilate himself to whites' lies.