• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.75-94
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• 2009

This study was designed to assess demotivation factors and compare the factor between two secondary school student groups. It furthermore examined how the factors related to students' L2 proficiency. A 31-item questionnaire was completed by 407 junior (JH) and senior high school (SH) students. Five factors were extracted through the principal axis factoring: Teachers' competence and teaching styles, Dissatisfaction with English classes and grading system, Difficulty of learning English, Lack of motivation and interest in learning English, and Inadequate learning contents. Although both JH and SH students did not perceive their English teacher as a strong attribution of demotivation, Difficulty of learning English and Dissatisfaction with English classes and grading system were the two strongest demotivating factors. When compared the overall mean scores of each factor between JH and SH groups, significant differences were found in all factors except Factor 4, with SH students reporting stronger demotivation. JH students attributed their demotivation to Difficulty of learning English, while SH students attributed that to Dissatisfaction with English classes and grading system. Both groups tended to attribute their demotivation to external forces. The study also showed that several demotivation factors related negatively to L2 proficiency.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.133-156
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• 2007

Although the understanding of English tense system is a crucial factor for communicative English learning and teaching for EFL students, it has been neglected over the years. As with other areas of the grammar, difficulties may arise from the nature of the system itself or from differences between time, tense and aspect. Consequently, many learners face a considerable difficulty with the English tense system as they are more often unable to grasp the basic conceptual differences of present/present continuous, past/present perfect, will/be going to along with many others. More concerning fact is that lots of instructors or so-called native English teachers seem not to be aware of the importance of teaching English tense system. The purpose of this study is to review and examine various theories and practical usages of tense in order to establish and/or present better methods for teaching tenses. This paper is focused on comparatively exact distinction of time, physical notion from tense, grammatical category as well as sequences of tenses in view of school grammar and communicative function. At the end or middle of each chapter, efficient teaching and learning techniques or strategies on tenses are suggested to help instructors or learners who relentlessly face confusions in understanding tense and its usage for communicative English learning and teaching. This study attempts to influence learners' ability to recognize and write tense in authentic contexts not to mention spoken English.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.93-114
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• 2011

The aim of this study is twofold. First, this study aimed to explore how Korean university students' English learning motivation is related to their English listening proficiency and study time. Second, it attempted to interpret the English learning motivation linking the two different motivation theories: self-determination theory and L2 motivational self system. The constructs of the students' L2 learning motivation were investigated with the data obtained through the questionnaire from 122 sophomore students. A factor analysis was conducted to extract the major factors of motivation. As a result, 6 factors were extracted: Intrinsic Pleasure, Identified Value Regulation, Intrinsic Accomplishment, Introjected Regulation, External Regulation, and Identified Regulation. The Interrelatedness among the assessment results on the L2 listening proficiency (pre and post test), listening study time, and motivation factors was measured by correlation coefficients. The statistical results indicated that pre-test scores were significantly related to Identified Regulation and Identified Value Regulation toward English learning, and post-test results had significant correlation with Intrinsic Accomplishment and Identified Regulation. However, no motivation subtypes showed statistical association with the students' listening study time. The results were attempted to be interpreted both under L2 motivational self system and self-determination framework to better illuminate the motivation theory with more explanatory power.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 안드로이드 플랫폼 기반에서 영어 프리젠테이션 학습을 위한 모바일 콘텐츠 제작 및 모바일 학습시스템을 개발하였다. 첫째, 안드로이드 플랫폼에서 영어 학습용 콘텐츠를 구동할 수 있게 해주는 콘텐츠 전송시스템을 포함하는 어플리케이션의 개발하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 어플리케이션은 언어 선택, 학습 모드 선택, 재생, 퀴즈, 사전, 정지 또는 일지정지 그리고 이전 또는 다음 화면으로 이동하는 기능을 제공한다. 둘째, 영어 프리젠테이션 학습을 위한 콘텐츠의 제작하였다. 영어 프리젠테이션 학습을 위한 콘텐츠는 크게 2개의 part(기본 파트 그리고 고급 파트)로 구성되며, Part 1과 Part 2 각각은 9개의 unit 으로 구성되어 총 18개 unit으로 구성되고, 각 unit 별 2-5개의 chapter로 구성되어 총 51개의 chapter로 구성되었다. 본 연구에서 개발한 시스템을 사용해보도록 한 후 사용자가 인지하는 사용자 인터페이스(UI) 만족도와 학습 만족도를 평가를 실시하였다. UI 만족도에 대한 설문 분석 결과, 응답자의 85%가 보통 수준 이상 만족하는 것으로 나타났으며, 학습 만족도에 대한 설문 분석결과, 응답자의 95%가 보통 수준 이상으로 만족하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.45-55
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• 2002

현재 아동을 대상으로 한 원격교육관리시스템은 그 수가 미미할 뿐만 아니라 주로 성인을 대상으로 한 원격교육시스템을 모델로 하였기 때문에 아동의 교육적 특성을 충분히 반영하지 못하였다. 본 연구에서는 아동의 교육적 흥미를 극대화하기 위하여 보다 효과적인 웹기반 실시간 원격영어교육관리시스템의 기능들을 제안하고자 한다. 특히 실제로 원격영어교육시스템을 이용하고 있는 초등학생들을 대상으로 하여 사용실태조사를 하고 이를 토대로 실시간, 양방향 교육서비스 제공의 필요성을 논의하고 학부모들에게 자녀의 교육과정을 실시간으로 관람토록 함으로써 보다 효율적인 아동교육프로그램을 제공하는 교육관리시스템을 제안하고자 한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.344-351
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• 2016

Recently, mobile application for english vocabulary learning is being developed actively. However, most mobile English vocabulary learning applications did not effectively connected with the technical advantages of mobile learning. Also,the study of mobile english vocabulary learning app are still insufficient. Therefore, this paper development a english vocabulary context-learning Agent that can practice context learning more reasonably using a location-based service, a character recognition technology and augmented reality technology based on smart phones. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed agent, we have measured the precision and usability. As results of experiments, the precision of learning vocabulary is 89% and 'Match between system and the real world', 'User control and freedom', 'Recognition rather than recall', 'Aesthetic and minimalist design' appeared to be respectively 3.91, 3.80, 3.85, 4.01 in evaluation of usability. It were obtained significant results.

• 정보교육학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2000

I studied a distance education model for English learning on the Internet. Basic WWW files, that contain courseware, are constructed with HTML, and functions, which are required in learning, are implemented with Java. Students and educators can access the preferred unit composed of the appropriate text, voice and image data by using a WWW browser at any time. The education system supports the automatic generation facility of English problems to practice reading and writing by making good use of the courseware data or various English text resources located on the Internet. Our system has functions to manage and control the flow of distance learning and to offer interaction between students and the system in a distributed environment. Educators can manage students' learning and can immediately be aware of who is attending and who is quitting the lesson in virtual space. Also, students and educators in different places can communicate and discuss a topic through the server. I implemented these functions, which are required in a client/server environment of distance education, with the use of Java. The URL for this system is "http://park.taegu-e.ac.kr" in the name of GAIA.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2020

Vehicle license plate recognition system is not generalized in Malaysia due to the loose character layout rule and the varying number of characters as well as the mixed capital English characters and italic English words. Because the italic English word is hard to segmentation, a separate method is required to recognize in Malaysian license plate. In this paper, we propose a mixed character level and word level English license plate recognition algorithm using deep learning neural networks. The difference of Gaussian method is used to segment character and word by generating a black and white image with emphasized character strokes and separated touching characters. The proposed deep learning neural networks are implemented on the LPR system at the gate of a building in Kuala-Lumpur for the collection of database and the evaluation of algorithm performance. The evaluation results show that the proposed Malaysian English LPR can be used in commercial market with 98.01% accuracy.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2015

행맨, 크로스퍼즐, 매칭등과 같은 많은 영어 단어 학습용 게임들이 보드 형태 또는 컴퓨터 게임 형태로 개발되었다. 이들 컴퓨터 게임 대부분은 전략형 게임 플레이를 채택하기에 이런 스타일의 게임을 좋아하지 않는 학습자들에게는 게임의 고유 특성인 즐거움을 주는데 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 청소년 및 성인 대상의 1인용 자동차 주행 게임을 중심으로 새로운 영어 단어 암기를 위한 시스템을 제안한다. 본 시스템의 핵심인 자동차 주행 게임에서 학습자는 차를 운전하면서, 트랙 상에 아이템처럼 나타나는 영어 단어 텍스트와 충돌하여서 점수를 획득하게 된다. 학습자는 화면상에 노출된 영어 단어를 주행 중에 지속적으로 보면서, 영어 단어를 뇌리에 새기게 된다. 우리의 실험 결과, 우리의 게임을 통한 영어 단어의 기억 효과는 만족할 수준이고, 학습 도구로서의 본 시스템에 대한 만족도도 높았다. 또한 기본 영어 단어 학습용 게임들이 이미 알고 있는 단어 대한 기억 강화에 적합하지만 우리의 게임은 새로운 단어 암기에도 사용할 수 있다.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2005

WBI 프로그램에 바탕을 둔 학습시스템이 국내대학이나 규모가 큰 사교육기관에서 사이버대학이라는 형태로 현재 일반화 되었지만, 아직도 학교 현장에선 적절한 학습자료나 시스템 구성의 미비로 인해 활용이 미진한 상태다. 이에 본 논문에서는 웹에 기반을 둔 중학교 영어교과 수업모형을 개발해, 실제 수업현장에서 활용하여 이를 통해 교수 학습 방법을 개선하고, 개별학습과 반복학습을 가능하도록 하는데 중점을 두었다. 이를 위해 원격교육용 학습시스템을 설계하여 구현한 후, 이를 실제 현장에서 적용한 결과, 다음과 같은 결론을 내릴 수 있었다. 첫째, 개발된 시스템이 영어과의 학습목표 달성에 효과적이었다. 둘째, 원격학습 시스템을 통해 교과학습능력 증진뿐만 아니라 인터넷 사용능력도 함께 키울 수 있었다. 셋째, 개별화 교육이 이루어졌다.