• 영어어문교육
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• 제6호
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• pp.219-239
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• 2000

There has been a growing enthusiasm in Korea for the early education of English as a foreign language (EFL). The present study examined the validity of the Critical Period Hypothesis in terms of the Universal Grammar (UG), in three different types of learning contexts - first language (L1), second language (SL), and foreign language (FL) learning contexts. While previous research findings in L1 and SL learning contexts suggest that UG principles and parameters are accessible to language learners only for the early years of lifetime, this article argues that their results - and even the methods - cannot be applied to EFL settings and that independent studies on the EFL context are, required. It also proposes the recent UG notion of functional categories as the most appropriate subject in the discussion of Korean EFL learners' access to UG. Findings on foreign language contexts, including the author's own, strongly indicate that UG is not sensitive to learners' starting ages in FL settings. If young children in FL contexts cannot develop their interlanguage grammar based on UG, the existing teaching methods for young children should be revised.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.671-679
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• 2017

영어 교육 전문가 R. Ellis를 비롯한 다수의 외국어학습연구자의 연구에 따르면, 외국어를 학습자의 실제상황에서 반복적으로 학습함으로써 영어의 실제성을 높이는 학습 방법이 효과적이며 중요한 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 상황인식 서비스가 접목된 외국어 학습 서비스를 제안함으로써 영어 학습의 실제성을 높이는 외국어 학습 콘텐츠의 개발을 모색한다. 이와 같은 접근은 실제 환경에서 무의식인 외국어 습득을 돕는 디지털 교육 콘텐츠에 대한 연구와 실시간 다중 센서 데이터를 기반으로 학습자의 경험적 특성을 분석하는 연구에 기반 한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.65-77
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• 2014

Ubiquitous learning has aroused great interest and is becoming a new way for foreign language education in today's society. However, how to increase the learners' initiative and their community cohesion is still an issue that deserves more profound research and studies. Emotional intelligence can help to detect the learner's emotional reactions online, and therefore stimulate his interest and the willingness to participate by adjusting teaching skills and creating fun experiences in learning. This is, actually the new concept of smart education. Based on the previous research, this paper concluded a neural mechanism model for analyzing the learners' emotional characteristics in ubiquitous environment, and discussed the intelligent monitoring and automatic recognition of emotions from the learners' speech signals as well as their behavior data by multi-agent system. Finally, a framework of emotional intelligence system was proposed concerning the smart foreign language education in ubiquitous learning.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.160-172
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• 2024

The characteristic aspects of learning a foreign language require special resources and tools for online learning. Criteria for choosing educational platforms depend on key elements of an academic subject area. Microsoft Teams (hereafter, MT) educational platform is competitive one because it meets most of the needs that arise during the formation of a secondary linguistic persona. Due to the large number of corporate programs, there are a successful acquisition of language skills and the implementation of all types of oral activities of students. A significant MT advantage is the constant analysis and monitoring of the platform of participants' needs in the educational process by developers. The article highlights MT advantages and disadvantages. The attention is drawn to individual programs, which, in the authors' opinion, are the most successful to learn writing, reading, speaking, listening, as well as organize classes that meet needs of modern foreign students.

• 이베로아메리카
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.135-178
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• 2021

A teacher's talk does not make a simple delivery of information. It reflects the role of the teacher, since the language used by a teacher intervenes in a crucial way in the complex mechanisms that underlie teaching and learning of foreign languages. In this sense, the ways in which teachers give feedback have an impact on the process, not only of learning, but also of teaching. The important role of emotional factors in learning has resonated strongly in the intuition of many second and foreign language teachers. As a result, over the past three decades, research on foreign language acquisition has confirmed the hypothesis that language learning is enhanced by rapport between teacher and student. This study analyses the positive feedback given by native Spanish teachers in the context of university classes in Korea. The positive words from a language teacher are related to forming emotional factors such as motivation, attitude, interest, self-confidence, self-esteem, anxiety, and empathy, which directly influence in the acquisition of Spanish. 35 hours of oral practical classes taught by three native teachers of Colombian, Spanish and Mexican nationality were examined. According to the result, almost all the correct answers from students were corresponded with some type of positive feedback. The most frequent strategies are making a compliment, an approval, a repetition, and laughter or non-verbal cues. It is interesting to observe that teachers don't use only a single strategy to provide positive feedback, but instead combine multiple ways to enrich the positiveness of the feedback.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.55-75
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• 2002

The present study examined whether Kang's (1999) model of the relationships among language learning strategy use and language proficiency for the Asian students could be applied to a more heterogeneous group. In Kang's study, he collected information of language learning strategies of 957 foreign students learning English as a second language in American colleges through a questionnaire. He also measured the subjects' language proficiency with the Institutional Testing Program TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). This study analyzed the same data without the limitation of cultural identity. Structural equation modeling was used to model the relationships among strategy use and language proficiency. Then, the model of the present study was descriptively compared with Kang's (1999) model for the Asian students. The overall flow of the relationship paths appeared to vary very little across the two models, which would have indicated that the generalizability of Kang's (1999) model could be extended more than originally examined. (156)

• 한국어교육
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.89-112
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• 2017

Grammar has long been regarded as an important element in foreign language learning and has received a lot of attention from foreign language learners and researchers. However, in the process of learning, learners will confront an increasing number of words some of which may have multiple meanings. It is not easy for language learners to memorize and master the correct use of these words, especially in terms of pragmatics. Some learners may use the grammar correctly, but their writing or utterance may feel unnatural in discourse. In Korean, '나다, 들다' are two basic verbs, but they have many different meanings which cause a lot of confusion among learners of Korean as a foreign language. In this article, the writer attempts to make a distinction between the collocations of the two verbs '나다, 들다' and provides an effective method for teaching the learners of Korean in China.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.487-495
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• 2021

각자가 가진 모국어 능력을 활용한 외국어 오디오 콘텐츠 플랫폼 개발을 통해 보다 쉽고 재밌으며 또한 편리하게 외국어를 습득할 수 있도록 하는데 본 연구의 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 실생활에서 사용하는 모국어를 중심으로 오디오 콘텐츠를 거래할 수 있는 플랫폼을 제안한다. 일상생활에서 큰 노력을 들이지 않고 만들어낼 수 있는 콘텐츠들이 외국어 학습자들에게는 그 언어의 자연스러운 쓰임새를 배울 수 있는 소중한 콘텐츠로 사용되는 것이다. 현재 대다수의 외국어 학습 플랫폼은 콘텐츠 고갈과 낮은 콘텐츠의 실제성의 문제점을 안고 있다. 본 플랫폼을 통해 이러한 기존 단점들을 개선하여 학습자들에게는 외국어를 보다 현실적이고 효율적으로 배울 수 있는 기회를 부여함과 동시에 원어민들에게는 여유시간을 활용한 부가수익 창출 기회를 부여할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권11호
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• pp.153-161
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• 2013

최근 효율적인 외국어 학습 및 테스트를 위한 교육 콘텐츠 개발에 대한 연구가 많이 되고 있다. 이러한 추세에 기반 하여, 온라인 학습 도구와 방송매체 등의 IT 기술을 이용한 e-learning 교육용 콘텐츠 개발이 급격하게 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 하지만 기존의 IT 기술을 이용한 교육용 콘텐츠들은 단방향의 학습 정보만을 제공하기에, 외국어 글을 이해하는 데는 사용자의 학습 편의를 제공하기 어렵다. 사용자 편의가 제공되려면 사용자의 학습 진단에 대한 부가적인 off-line 분석이 요구된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 사용자의 외국어 능력 향상을 위하여, 실시간(on-line)으로 학습 콘텐츠를 제공하여 외국어 능력을 진단하고, 향상시키기 위한 사용자 안구운동 분석 기반의 지능형 학습 도구를 제안한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 사용자 학습상태를 분석하기 위하여 인지심리학/신경생리학 기반의 사용자 학습상태와 관련된 안구 운동 특징 정보를 추출하고 판별 분석한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 지능형 학습 도구는 앞서 언급한 사용자 안구운동 특징 정보를 기저로 하여 사용자가 외국어 읽기를 수행할 때, 사용자가 응시하고 있는 단어에 대하여, '안다/모른다'를 분석하여, 모르는 단어일 경우 실시간(on-line)으로 웹에서 단어를 검색하고, 정리하여 사용자에게 제공함으로써, 외국어로 된 글을 읽고 이해하는데 도움을 주는 자가 학습 서비스를 제공한다. 제안하는 시스템은 학습자들에게 자기 주도적 학습 도구를 제공하고, 자동화된 학습 콘텐츠로 외국어로 된 글의 이해에 대한 성취와 만족도를 높일 수 있다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2000년도 7월 학술대회지
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• pp.96-104
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• 2000

The Bodysonic system was invented on the basis of 'Bone Conduction Theory,' which states that people feel sounds with their whole body. The Bodysonic system is used for L2 (English) learning at Aichi Women's Junior College. In recent years we have developed some unique methodology related to use of the Bodysonic system. In Japan it is difficult for adult L2 learners to acquire the prosody of a foreign language. A language laboratory using the Bodysonic system has been suggested as one way to eradicate such adult L2 problems. The Bodysonic system changes sounds into vibrations. It makes it easy for learners to acquire the prosody of a foreign language because humans can convey information, through their tactile organs. In addition, this system was originally designed to make people relax, so it can also help minimize learner anxiety. The effect of Bodysonic vibrations on language learning has already been proven by some experiments. The Bodysonic system appears to be an ideal teaching method for adult to learn a foreign language.