• 제목/요약/키워드: Listening Comprehension Ability

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Effects of Chunking on Reading Comprehension of EFL Learners: Silent vs. Oral Reading

  • Chu, Hera
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제16권3호
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    • pp.19-34
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    • 2010
  • This study investigates how EFL learners' chunking ability both in oral and silent reading affects reading comprehension, and how the chunking ability in silent reading relates to that of oral reading. The participants of this study consisted of 30 Korean university students taking a required 'English Reading' course. Chunking is a technique of grouping words into meaningful syntactic units for better understanding. Chunking was measured from pauses in oral reading. Results of this study suggest that the participants who can chunk properly both orally and silently display better comprehension of texts in general. However, chunking in silent reading was found to be a stronger indicator of improved reading comprehension. Also, the chunking skills in silent reading showed a statistically strong correlation with those observed in oral reading, suggesting that the chunking ability in silent reading may develop in parallel with that of oral reading. Oral as well as silent reading should be continuously practiced to improve reading comprehension of all levels of EFL learners, including low levels of learners. There is also a need to encourage students to read aloud with appropriate prosodic cues to help them read in meaningful units of words, therefore increasing EFL learners' comprehension not only in reading but also in listening.

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수학 청해력 유형에 관한 초등학교 교사의 인식 조사 연구 (South Korean Elementary Teachers' Perception about Students' Mathematics Listening Ability)

  • 김리나
    • 한국수학교육학회지시리즈C:초등수학교육
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    • 제25권4호
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    • pp.343-360
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    • 2022
  • 수학 수업에서 사용하는 음성 언어에는 비교적 짧은 문장에 많은 수학적 개념과 원리가 함축적으로 들어있을뿐더러 일상생활에서 사용하지 않는 기호와 수학 용어들이 포함되어 있다. 따라서 수학 수업에서 학생들은 일반적인 듣기와 달리 자신이 알고 있는 수학적·언어적 지식을 통합하여 음성 언어의 의미를 파악하는 듣기 능력이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 일반적인 듣기와 구분하여 수학적 내용이 포함된 음성 언어를 이해하는 능력을 수학 청해력이라 지칭한다. 본 연구의 목표는 초등학교 학습자의 수학 청해력 유형을 구체화하고 그중 초등학교 교사가 수학 학습과 관련하여 적절하다고 인식하는 유형을 조사하는 데 있다. 본 연구에서는 선행연구 분석을 통해 수학 청해력 유형을 발견하며 듣기, 해석하며 듣기, 평가하며 듣기, 선택적으로 듣기, 듣는 척하기, 무시하기의 여섯 가지 형태로 구분하였다. 초등학교 교사 412명의 설문, 추가 20명과의 면담 결과를 분석한 통합연구 조사 결과 초등학교 교사들은 수학 청해력 여섯 가지 유형 중 해석하며 듣기를 가장 적절한 듣기 유형으로 인식하고 있었다. 본 연구의 조사 결과는 학생들의 수학 청해력 실태 조사와 교사의 수학 청해력의 지도 방법 개발을 위한 기초 자료로 활용될 수 있다.

발음과 듣기 융합 활동이 영어 듣기 능력과 학습 흥미에 미치는 영향 (The Effect of Convergence for Pronunciation and Listening Activities on Listening Ability and Learning Interests)

  • 신명희
    • 한국융합학회논문지
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    • 제7권3호
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    • pp.71-75
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    • 2016
  • 현 한국의 영어 듣기 학습은 자연적 노출 환경에서 보다는 조용한 인위적 환경에서 주로 이루어지고 있기 때문에 학습자 주위의 다양한 소음이 들어가거나 초분절적 요소가 가미된 자연적 발화 환경에서의 듣기 능력은 현저히 미흡하다. 본 연구의 목적은 자연적 노출 환경으로서 영어 광고를 활용하여 학습자들의 발음과 듣기의 융합 활동을 중심으로 영어 듣기 능력 향상에 긍정적 영향을 주고 있음을 제안하고자 한다. 본 연구는 A 대학교 교양 영어 수강자 40명을 대상으로 영어 듣기 능력 평가를 위해 토익 Listening Comprehension 테스트를 사전과 사후 비교 분석하였고 흥미도에 대한 설문조사를 실시하여 사전 사후의 결과를 비교하였다. 흥미도 테스트를 위한 설문 24 문항은 박선희(2003)의 설문 내용을 토대로 하여 연구자가 본 연구에 맞도록 재구성 하였다. 본 연구의 결과, 영어 광고를 통해 자연스럽게 발음하고 들을 수 있는 융합 활동으로 영어 학습에 흥미를 통한 동기유발로 토익 듣기능력 향상에 긍정적인 영향을 주었다.

Writing Listening Logs and Its Effect on Improving L2 Students' Metacognitive Awareness and Listening Proficiency

  • Lee, You-Jin;Cha, Kyung-Whan
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • 제16권4호
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    • pp.50-67
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    • 2020
  • This study investigated whether writing weekly listening logs could influence college English learners' metacognitive awareness and listening proficiency. In addition, the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ) was applied to examine the learners' knowledge of their listening process. It is process-oriented research conducted by analyzing the MALQ and students' listening logs as to how their metacognitive awareness and listening proficiency have changed during the semester. Eighty-nine students who took an English listening practice course at a university participated in this study. The research findings are as follows. First, it turned out that there was a significant relationship between EFL university students' listening comprehension and some subscales of metacognitive awareness. Second, the students had an opportunity to reflect on learning through regular listening activities, and weekly listening logs, which included important information about listening process and practice. Third, as the students' listening proficiency increased at the end of the semester, it was found that introducing listening logs along with classroom lessons helped the students improve their listening ability. Finally, the high proficiency group students used multiple strategies simultaneously, regardless of the type of listening strategies, while the low proficiency group students used one or two limited listening strategies. However, the low proficiency group students may have had trouble expressing their ideas in English or recognizing the listening strategies they used, not because they did not use a lot of listening strategies. Therefore, teachers should regularly check if students are following their instructions and help them use appropriate strategies for better understanding.

치과기공분야에서의 직업기초능력수준과 요구도에 관한 연구 (A Study of the Cognition and the Requirement on the Key Competency of Dental Technology)

  • 황재선
    • 대한치과기공학회지
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    • 제34권4호
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    • pp.457-469
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is analyzing how much students of dental technology possess core competencies and cognition between dental technicians and students. Methods: The subjects of this study were dental technicians, dental technology students and a self-administered structured questionnaire survey wax conducted for 428 selected people. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS Win 20.0 statistics program and analysis techniques include the frequency, t-test, One-way ANOVA. Results: The results of the survey are as follows. The cognition of key competency according to the gender in the students showed differences in interpersonal ability, information ability and the requirement of key competency according to the gender in the students showed differences in speaking ability, listening ability, problem solving ability. The cognition of key competency according to the grade in the students showed difference in speaking ability, listening ability and the requirement of key competency according to the grade in the students showed difference in comprehension of organization ability. The speaking ability is the lowest in the cognition of key competency according to the gender, grade, experience of clinical training in the students and the skill ability is the highest in the requirement of key competency according to the gender, experience of clinical training in the students. The cognition of key competency according to the career in the dental technicians showed difference in problem solving ability, self-regulation and self-development ability, skill ability and the requirement of key competency according to the career in the dental technicians showed difference in writing ability. The cognition of key competency according to the educational background in the dental technicians showed difference in comprehension of organization ability. The foreign language ability is the lowest in the cognition of key competency according to the career, job in the dental technicians and the skill ability is the highest and the math ability is th lowest in the requirement of key competency according to the career, place of employment in the dental technician. Conclusion: This study can be used as basic data for dental technology that are available not only to field-oriented disciplines but also to overall higher education fields which aim to strengthen key competency.

공업계 고등학교 학생들의 직업기초능력 수준과 중요도에 대한 집단 간 인식차이 (A Study on the Difference between Groups in Perception of the Level and Importance of the Key Competencies of Technical High School Students)

  • 안광식
    • 대한공업교육학회지
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    • 제31권1호
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2006
  • 이 연구의 목적은 공업계 고등학교 학생들의 직업기초능력 수준과 중요도를 측정하고 향상방안을 제시하는 것이다. 이 연구의 대상자는 공업계 고등학교에서 산학협동교육을 담당하는 담당자 12명과 기업체 현장실습 담당자 7명 이었다. 이 연구의 결과 직업기초능력의 여러 부분에서 산학협동교육 담당 교사와 기업체 업무 담당자 사이에 인식차가 존재하는 것으로 나타났다. 특히 영어문서이해능력에서는 두 집단 모두 수준과 중요도를 낮게 평가하여 직업기초능력으로 재고할 필요가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 기존 직업기초능력에 추가되어야 할 능력으로는 한자 독해능력, 경청 능력 등으로 밝혀졌다. 직업기초능력을 향상시키기 위해서는 공업계 고등학교 학생들이 습득해야할 직업기초능력의 수준을 정확히 규명하고, 이를 근거로 직업기초능력을 측정할 수 있는 도구의 개발이 뒤따라야 할 것이다.

고등학교 학생들의 학습자 변인과 영어 학업 성취도 사이의 상관관계 연구 (A study on the relationship between student variables and English accomplishment of high school students)

  • 심순희
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제11권4호
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    • pp.261-286
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    • 2005
  • Lately, teaching methods and instruments have become student-centered and are directed towards developing a communicative competence of learners. However, compared with that of other countries, the level of our students English is not very good. I guess the reason is that our English education is focused on the uniformal teaching methods regardless of the differences of intelligence, affective domains and study time. I tried to find the relationship between these factors and the students' English accomplishments. So I divided the students into 2 groups of superior and inferior students by the standard of intelligence, affective domain and study time and compared the scores between the groups in the fields of reading comprehension, grammar, pronunciation, accent, vocabulary, and listening. These were the results that followed: First, intelligence has a great influence students' English accomplishment in all fields. Second, affective domains such as motivation, anxiety, attitude, confidence, and studying time also have some influence on the students' English accomplishments. Third, the sequence of these factors according to their influence force are as follows: study time, anxiety, intelligence, motivation, attitude, and confidence. So we can conclude that we should teach English according to our students' ability in the field of intelligence and affective domains and should not ignore the individual differences they have.

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An Audio-Visual Teaching Aid (AVTA) with Scrolling Display and Speech to Text over the Internet

  • Davood Khalili;Chung, Wan-Young
    • 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 V
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    • pp.2649-2652
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    • 2003
  • In this Paper, an Audio-Visual Teaching aid (AVTA) for use in a classroom and with Internet is presented. A system, which was designed and tested, consists of a wireless Microphone system, Text to Speech conversion Software, Noise filtering circuit and a Computer. An IBM compatible PC with sound card and Network Interface card and a Web browser and a voice and text messenger service were used to provide slightly delayed text and also voice over the internet for remote teaming, while providing scrolling text from a real time lecture in a classroom. The motivation for design of this system, was to aid Korean students who may have difficulty in listening comprehension while have, fairly good reading ability of text. This application of this system is twofold. On one hand it will help the students in a class to view and listen to a lecture, and on the other hand, it will serve as a vehicle for remote access (audio and text) for a classroom lecture. The project provides a simple and low cost solution to remote learning and also allows a student to have access to classroom in emergency situations when the student, can not attend a class. In addition, such system allows the student in capturing a teacher's lecture in audio and text form, without the need to be present in class or having to take many notes. This system will therefore help students in many ways.

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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

  • Koroloff, Carolyn
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제5호
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    • pp.49-62
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    • 1999
  • Education systems throughout the world encourage their students to learn languages other than their native one. In Australia, our Education Boards provide students with the opportunity to learn European and Asian languages. French, German, Chinese and Japanese are the most popular languages studied in elementary and high schools. This choice is a reflection of Australias European heritage and its geographical position near Asia. In most non-English speaking countries, English is the foreign language most readily available to students. In Korea, the English language is actively promoted by the Education Department and, in less official ways, by companies and the public. It is impossible to be anywhere in Korea without seeing the English language alongside or intermingled with Korean. When I ask students why they are learning English, I receive answers that include the word globalization and the importance of English throughout the world. When I press further and ask why they personally are learning English, the students mention passing exams, usually high school tests or TOEIC, and the necessity of passing the latter to obtain a good job. Seldom do I ever hear anything about communication: about the desire to talk with other people in English, to read novels or poetry in English, to understand movies or pop-songs in English, to chat on the Internet in English, to search for information on the Internet in English, or to email pen-pals in English. Yet isnt communication the only valid reason for learning a language? We learn our native language to communicate with those around us. Shouldnt we set the same goal for learning a foreign language? In my opinion communication, whether it is reading and writing or speaking and listening, must be central to language learning. Learning a language to pass examinations is meaningless unless those examinations are a reliable indicator of the ability of the student to communicate. In previous eras, most communication in a foreign language was through reading novels or formal letters. This required a thorough knowledge of grammar and a large vocabulary. Todays communication is much less formal. Telephone conversations, tele-conferences, faxes and emails allow people to communicate regularly and informally. Reading materials are also less formal as popular novels and newspapers are available world-wide. Movies and popular songs have added to the range of informal communication available. Finally travel has ensured that people from different cultures will meet easily and regularly. This informal communication requires less emphasis on grammar and vocabulary and more emphasis on comprehension and confidence to speak. Placing communication central to language learning has important implications for the Education system and for teachers.

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