• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.395-411
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to explore the elementary English conversation instructors' perception on their professionalism and the needs of teacher training program. The survey data were attained from 136 elementary English conversation instructors. Descriptive statistics were employed to discuss the result of the survey response. The results of this study revealed that the elementary English conversation instructors perceived the need of in-service training program for their professionalism improvement, especially in teaching techniques for four language skills. The result also revealed that the instructors need to be more equipped with the knowledge of elementary learners' developmental psychology and L2 learning process. The study concludes with several suggestions for elementary English conversation instructors' improvement of teaching professionalism and in-service training program.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제4호
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• pp.131-178
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• 1998

English teaching in the elementary school of Korea had been put into practice as an extracurricular activity from 1982 till 1996. But a TEFL program as a regular course in the elementary school of Korea has been practiced since 1997, according to the language policy to establish early English education in all the elementary schools of Korea. The purpose of this study is to identify the current state of English teaching in the elementary school of Korea, to investigate its problems and to suggest some remedies for its improvement. For this purpose this study includes the analysis and result of the survey. The survey result points out that English teaching in the elementary school of Korea is not satisfactory and has some problems in many fields. In this connection the present study suggests some remedies for the improvement of English teaching in the elementary school of Korea.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.83-102
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• 2007

한 학기 동안, 영어를 사용한 대학 수학 과목 강의를 하여 수강한 학생의 강의된 내용 및 영어 습득 정도를 측정하였다. 9주 간격을 두고 사전 및 사후 시험을 치른 결과 수학 강의 내용면에서, 영어로 강의한 반이 우리말로 강의한 반에 비하여 많은 학습을 이루었음을 알 수 있었다. 특히, 영어로 강의한 반 학생들은 실험에서 사용된 수학 시험문제 가운데 어려운 문제에서 큰 진보를 보였다. 또한 영어로 강의한 반의 학생들의 수학 관련 영어는 향상된 반면 일반적 영어는 향상을 보이지 않았다. 본 논문은 이러한 결과를 통하여 영어로 된 수학 표현을 이해하고 제대로 사용하는 능력이 영어로 된 수학적 지식 습득의 일부분이며 따라서 교과 내용의 습득과 불가분의 관계임을 시사한다.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2009

영어 능력 향상에 있어 원어민 교사 활용은 매우 중요하다. 그러나 농어촌의 학교들은 생활문화 환경의 열악으로 원어민 교사를 제대로 활용하기 어려운 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 온라인 화상 시스템으로 원어민 교사에 의한 수업을 지원하고 온라인 컨텐츠를 활용하여 수준별 개별화 교육을 지원하는 하이브리드 모델을 통하여 학업 성취도를 높이는데 있다. 본 연구는 대도시, 중도시, 농어촌 소도시의 3개 집단에서 초 중등 2개 학교씩 6개 학교의 150명을 대상으로 3개월간 적용하였다. 연구방법은 하이브리드 모델의 적용 전후를 T-테스트를 통하여 비교하는 실험연구를 중심으로 하였다. 영어 교육에 적용 후 분석 결과 이해력은 상위 집단이 쓰기 능력은 하위 집단이 높게 향상되었다. 전체 영어 능력 향상 정도는 하위 집단이 상위 집단보다 높았다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제52호
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• pp.61-84
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• 2004

This study investigates the Korean native speakers' English liquid perception and production. Perception and production experiments were each conducted twice before and after a short period of explicit learning process of phonetic characteristics of English liquids. The results showed that correlation between perception and production varied depending on factors. In both perception and production, word-final position was the most difficult, and cluster position was the easiest. A considerable improvement was observed in word-initial and medial positions in production, whereas no improvement was achieved in word-final position, especially in production. This study is also concerned with the formant structures of Korean native speakers' production of English liquids in order to see what acoustic features are highly correlated with Korean native speakers' production accuracy of English liquids. The results showed that F2 did not show a high correlation while F3 was a strong correlate of the production accuracy.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.117-138
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to increase students' interest in the subject of English, which has been led by some mannerism, and to improve the students' basic scholastic ability and self-controlled problem solving, through adopting an individualized Web Based Instruction(WBI) as a concrete and practical learning method. In order to achieve this, an individualized Web Based Instruction(WBI) homepage has been developed to be applied experimentally to the field of middle school education for 8 months, and a research has been made on its effects on the students' interest in English along with the improvement of English. Two groups which showed almost the same interest were selected as a controlled group and an experimental one. Individualized Web Based Instruction was applied to the experimental group, while the controlled group was not instructed according to student ability. The controlled group was taught using CD added with the textbook. As a result of T-test, the students in the experimental group showed more improvement in communicative competence than those in the controlled group.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.185-210
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• 2006

This study has two purposes. First, it aims to suggest an appropriate approach to English writing education for Korean high school students in a cooperative learning situation. It also aims to suggest what type of learner grouping, either homogeneous or heterogeneous, is appropriate by comparing the learners' writing abilities and the changes of their affective factors after being exposed to cooperative EFL writing instruction. Two homogeneous classes were selected and instructed to write in English for 11 weeks. One was composed of homogeneous small groups based on the students' writing scores, and the other was composed of heterogeneous small groups, again based on the students' writing scores. The results showed that the improvement between the two class types was quite different across different proficiency levels. For example, although there is little difference between the homogeneous and the heterogeneous classes of low and intermediate-level learners in writing ability improvement, high-level students showed a significant difference between the classes. In addition, it was found that class participation correlated significantly to writing ability improvement. Cooperative learning was proved to be an effective writing instructional approach to encourage learners' interest and increase their self-confidence; however, the results did not show any significant differences in learners' affective domain between the homogeneous and the heterogeneous classes. Similarly, the learners' grouping preference was not affected by the grouping method.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.257-286
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• 2006

This paper investigates the effects of small group collaborative transcription activities on the improvement of university students' English listening ability. Based on the results of pre-tests, a class of 42 students was subdivided into 11 small homogeneous groups of three to four students. Each group was provided with 7 different news items to be transcribed. Means were compared between pre-test and post-test scores, followed by comparison of transcription errors in content and function words. Finally, students' perception and attitudes about the use of small group transcription for improving listening skills were qualitatively analysed and compared with pre- and post test results. It was found that post test scores highly correlated with improvement of listening ability. It was also found that groups of high degree of collaboration showed improvement in listening ability while lack of collaboration contributed to loss of interests in listening. Students who see process more important were found to make more contribution to the group success than those who place more emphasis on the results.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2020

This paper presents an environment for rule-based English-Korean machine translation system, which supports the translation domain adaptation and the continuous translation quality improvement. For the purposes, corpus is essential, from which necessary information for translation will be acquired. The environment consists of a corpus construction part and a translation knowledge extraction part. The corpus construction part crawls news articles from some newspaper sites. The extraction part builds the translation knowledge such as newly-created words, compound words, collocation information, distributional word representations, and so on. For the translation domain adaption, the corpus for the domain should be built and the translation knowledge should be constructed from the corpus. For the continuous improvement, corpus needs to be continuously expanded and the translation knowledge should be enhanced from the expanded corpus. The proposed web-based environment is expected to facilitate the tasks of domain adaptation and translation system improvement.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.139-166
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• 2005

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of remedial instruction on self-efficacy improvement in elementary school students with low self-efficacy, which may have been formed through negative experience with learning such as poor performance and poor grades. Nine 6th grade students with low self-efficacy were selected for the present study. A remedial class was set up and instruction was given once a week for 14 weeks. The purpose of the remedial class was to give the students a positive experience with English learning and have students reflect on their achievement. The contents and class activities were adjusted to the subjects' English abilities and also closely related to those of the regular classes so that students could have more confidence during regular English classes. The data were collected from a test of self-efficacy in English learning, achievement tests given before and after the experiment, achievement tests after each lesson, a general self-efficacy test, a basic questionnaire, interviews, journals, and students' self-evaluation. The results showed that the remedial instruction was very successful in providing students with a sense of achievement and improving students' self-efficacy in English learning. However, this study failed to find significant improvement in general self-efficacy tests and achievement tests given before and after the experiments. A longer period of remedial instruction may have been necessary to obtain more concrete results from the variety of data collected.