• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2017

The current study investigated whether Korean learners' English-learning environments, especially target English accent (General American English (GAE) vs. Southern British English (SBE)) and English-language experience affected their production of English vowels. Thirty six EFL learners, 27 ESL-US learners, and 33 ESL-UK learners produced 8 English vowels with a bVt frame (beat, bit, bet, bat, bought, bot, boat, boot). The learners' productions were acoustically analyzed in terms of F1 and F2 frequencies. The overall results revealed that the learners' target accent had an effect on their production of some English vowels. The EFL and ESL-US learners' (especially, female learners') production of bought, bot, boat, and boot, which show characteristic differences between the GAE and SBE accents, was closer to that of the native American English (AE) speakers than the native British English (BE) speakers. In contrast, the ESL-UK learners' production of bought and bot demonstrated the opposite pattern. Thus, the impact of target accent was not demonstrated across the board. The effect of the learners' different English-language experience was also rather limited. This was because the EFL learners' production was not much different from the ESL-US learners' production, in spite of the ESL-US learners' residence in the US for more than 9 years. Furthermore, the Korean learners, irrespective of their different English-language experience, tended to produce bit and bat with lower F1 than the native AE and BE speakers, thus resulting in bit and bat to be produced similarly to beat and bet, respectively. This demonstrates the learners' persistent L1 effects on their English vowel production despite the learners' residence in the English speaking countries or their high English proficiency.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.127-152
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• 2007

Recently, the number of students to choose to study in Australia has been increasing significantly. The purpose of this study is to examine how Korean primary school children perceive their own English language learning and cultural adaptation in Australia. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 34 Korean children aged 8-13 who were attending primary schools in Brisbane, Queensland. The study results show that they made diverse efforts to learn English language and culture in Australia, such as making English-speaking friends, watching TV/video/DVD, reading English books, and studying with a foreign tutor. Their English listening and writing abilities were thought to be improved most, followed by speaking, reading and cultural understanding after studying in Australia. The subjects were mostly satisfied with their study and life in Australia but they had difficulties with communicating in English, homesickness, foods, weather, insects, and discrimination. In particular, they had problems with understanding classes conducted all in English and participating in the classroom activities due to their low level of English ability and understanding of Australian classroom culture. The findings of this study have pedagogical implications for educators both in Australia and Korea.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.159-181
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• 2006

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of presentation-based instruction and to suggest a model of instruction targeted to the Korean intermediate level students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). To achieve this objective, the author examined how the acquisition of practical English through oral presentation would enhance the students' learning motivation, language abilities, and communicative competence in concrete situations. It was confirmed that the trained leader and systematic teaching and learning are needed to maximize the effects of presentation-based instruction. In doing so, the author compared and analyzed the collected data in order to support the validity of this teaching method. It was further pointed out that the teacher should have a close look at the roles of the presenter and learner in an effort to work out the usefulness of such an instruction model. The method of presentation in classroom settings would be a practical mode to attain the essential purpose of EFL teaching particularly to get over the drawbacks of Korean students' communicative competence. As a result, it would be an effective teaching method to meet the nation's long-standing demands for EFL education.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.556-558
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• 2010

국내 교육용 모바일 콘텐츠의 대부분이 영어 등의 외국어 학습용으로 치중되어 있으며, 이동통신사와 교육전문 업체가 제휴하여 동영상 등과 같은 콘텐츠를 모바일 단말기에 제공하는 형태가 일반적이다. 최근에는 아이폰, 구글폰 등과 같은 다양한 종류의 스마트 폰의 출시에 따라 교육용 콘텐츠의 모바일 플랫폼이 변화되고 있는 추세이다. 본 논문에서는 외국어로서의 한국어 학습을 효과적으로 지원하기 위하여 한국어교육용 듣기 교육 콘텐츠를 구현한다. 세부적으로 스마트폰의 개방형 플랫폼인 구글의 안드로이드 OS를 기반으로 콘텐츠가 운영될 수 있도록 구현한다.

• 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.

• 한국어교육
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.265-289
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• 2017

외국어를 학습하는 데 있어서 해당 외국어의 의사소통 능력을 향상시키고 평가한다는 것은 상당히 큰 중요성을 가진다. 교실에서 학습자의 듣기, 말하기, 읽기, 쓰기 능력을 통해 학습자의 언어 능력을 함양하고 평가하기 위해 어떠한 연습문제나 시험 혹은 평가방법을 사용하느냐 하는 것은 학습자의 학습동기에 지대한 영향을 미친다. 왜냐하면, 보통 학습자들은 교수자가 무엇을 가르치고 기대하며 평가하느냐에 따라 자신들의 학습방법을 맞춰 나가기 때문이다. 이러한 맥락에서 본 연구는 보다 적극적인 학습자들의 참여를 유도하고 유연성 있는 학습자 중심의 학습법을 고양시키며 다양한 언어능력을 고취시키기 위하여, 효과적인 외국어 학습법의 하나로 알려진 paraphrasing을 학습에 활용하고자 한다. 특히 paraphrasing은 일상생활 속에서도 의사소통을 원활히 하기 위한 수단으로서 글 바꿔 쓰기 혹은 말 바꿔 말하기로 활용되기도 하나, 본 소논문에서는 paraphrasing이 학습을 목적으로 하는 학습현장에서 활용되었다는 것을 감안하여 의역을 통한 학습 혹은 의역학습법을 소개하고자 한다. 실제로 paraphrasing은 언어 및 외국어 학습자들에게 상당히 효과가 있는 것으로 알려진 것에 비해 실제로 한국어 교육현장에서 사용한 연구들은 거의 찾아 볼 수가 없다고 해도 과언이 아니다. 따라서, 의역학습법을 학습현장에서 도입했을 때 경험한 여러 시행착오를 바탕으로 실질적으로 교실에서 사용된 예시들을 소개하고, 한국어를 가르치는 교수자들과 한국어를 배우는 외국인 학습자들에게 paraphrasing을 사용한 새로운 한국어 교수방법과 평가 도구를 제안하고자 한다. 이를 통해, paraphrasing이 한국어를 가르치는 교수자들과 한국어를 배우고자 하는 외국 학습자들에게 효과적인 언어학습 도구로서 실질적으로 교육현장에서 널리 사용될 수 있는 계기가 되었으면 한다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제29권
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• pp.413-452
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to examine and apply Blended Learning to Chinese reading class and give some suggestions for Chinese reading class for realizing the interactive model for reading. For learner's improvement in Chinese reading level, various teaching methods need to be applied to Chinese reading class. Among teaching methods, this article tried to apply Blened Learning in terms of interaction, because Blended Learning can follow the general trend that all of people use laptop, smartphone, etc., and also can be contribution to reading as performance in foreign language learning. As a result, Blended Learning can make learner prepare class for giving online contents, and can make teacher and learner have more chances of interaction in class for improving reading competence.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.403-416
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• 2019

본 연구는 성별의 차이가 테크놀로지를 이용한 영어 학습에 미치는 영향을 조사한 것으로, 2017년 국내 한 대학에서 영어 수업을 수강하고 있는 204명의 대학생을 대상으로 이루어졌다. 본 연구를 위해 모든 참가자들은 일주일에 3시간씩 테크놀로지를 이용한 영어 수업에 참여하였다. 강의 요강, 강의 노트 등의 학습 자료는 모두 학교 웹 사이트에 업로드 되었으며, 과제, 퀴즈 및 시험 역시 모두 웹 사이트를 통해 진행되었다. 남녀 성별에 따라 테크놀로지를 이용한 영어 학습에 차이가 있는지 알아보기 위해 수업 전후 사전 사후 영어 말하기 시험을 실시하였고, 이후 인터뷰 역시 진행하였다. 양적 데이터 분석은 대응표본 t검정 및 독립표본 t검정을 통해 이루어졌고, 질적 데이터 분석은 내용 분석을 토대로 하였다. 주 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 먼저 테크놀로지를 이용한 영어 학습을 통해 남학생과 여학생의 영어 말하기 실력은 모두 유의미하게 향상하였다. 하지만 남학생과 여학생 사이의 성별 차이는 유의미하지 않는 것으로 드러나, 테크놀로지를 이용한 영어 학습이 남학생과 여학생 모두에게 똑같이 효과적이라는 사실이 밝혀졌다. 인터뷰 결과, 테크놀로지를 이용한 영어 학습에 대한 반응 역시 남학생과 여학생 모두에게서 긍정적인 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 국내에서 영어를 가르치고 있는 교사들에게 테크놀로지를 이용한 영어 학습에 대한 실천적 함의를 제공한다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2005

Despite the noteworthy increase in the number of FL anxiety studies, inconsistencies associated with the effects of FL anxiety on language learner performance have been reported in literature. Such conflicting results seem to be attributable in part to unstable conceptualization of the FL anxiety construct and its measure. This paper purported to address the emerging call for a theoretical clarification of the construct at hand as a preface to a clear picture of language anxiety on a conceptual ground. This paper not only covers aspects of general anxiety from psychological perspectives, but examines how FL anxiety and its associated concepts have been conceptualized in the literature. Inconsistent results that pertain to FL learning were also delineated. Given the drawbacks found in the exiting theories of FL anxiety, several points were taken into account for a refinement of the conceptual framework. This attempt will hopefully shed new light on the construct per se and prove conducive to the development of the field of English education.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.66-74
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• 2016

In recent years, studies have emerged highlighting the role of social networking services in the English as a foreign language context of Korea, particularly for teaching and learning, but none examine the role of Facebook in enhancing communities of practice. Therefore, this study undertakes such an endeavor on a Korea-based language teacher organization Facebook group. Social networking analysis came to reveal a group consisting of largely non-engaged members, with several key users successfully bridging the network and promoting engagement and interaction via commenting. Although the most viral posts were disproportionately organizational, professional development clearly emerges as the largest concern for active members. Ultimately, it will be critical for increasing success of the group as a social networking service to establish a means of further engaging all members, including those on the network periphery. To fully meet organizational goals, it will be imperative for key actors to be used increasingly proactively.