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A Cross-Cultural Study on Student Engagement and Resistance to Critical Literacy in a TESOL MA Classroom

  • Pederson, Rod
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제36권
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    • pp.175-209
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    • 2014
  • This paper reports on a qualitative examining the cross-cultural reasons for student engagement and resistance to critical literacy in a three week summer TESOL MA course that was part of a Korean/American university faculty exchange program. Of particular interest was the unique diversity of the class which consisted of 13 subjects from 9 different nations. Using student and instructor reflective journals, field notes on classroom observations, and the course terminal paper on student's philosophies of education as research corpora, results of the study revealed that students resisted instruction in critical literacy for ideological and epistemological reasons. Nonetheless, the data also showed that while all students resisted some theories in critical literacy, all students nonetheless engaged the course content in meaningful ways.

ESL Standards: 언어와 학문영역의 통합을 위한 영어교육 목표 (ESL Standards: Goal of English education for the integration of language and academic area)

  • 이종복
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.243-261
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to introduce Korean teachers and researchers ESL standards for TESOL students developed by TESOL association in 1997. The standards were designed to be useful for teachers and other educators who want to incorporate them in their educational programs for ESOL students in mainly the USA. These standards are important because they articulate the English language development needs of ESL learners and provide directions to educators on how to fulfill the needs of ESL students. Also. they emphasize the major role of language in the attainment of other content area standards. In this paper the author introduced not only the theoretical backgrounds. construct. meaning of the standards, and the ways of implementation but also their lessons to our Korean situation.

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Difference in Requests between Koreans and Americans

  • Park, Chung-Yeol
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.153-176
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    • 2006
  • This paper examines "Difference in Requests." The study of speech acts is a crucial area in sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics, and has aided in the development of TESOL. It also provides a useful means of relating linguistic form and communicative intent. This paper concentrated on 3 request strategies, which were requests made with an explanation, requests made without an explanation and no requests. The purpose of this study, and of concern in TESOL, was to discover whether Koreans framed their requests differently under different conditions. Based on these differences, I wanted to ascertain whether Koreans who spoke English as a second language, and who have lived in the United States, frame their requests as they would in their native tongues thus creating the potential for sociolinguistic failure, or use American sociolinguistic style. As the results of the study, it was found that in the majority of cases, Americans made an explanation with a request. In many cases the Koreans living in Korea would not give an explanation when making a request. Rather, they were direct in request. In many cases the Korean speaking English and living in the US had adopted the American request strategy of giving an explanation.

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The Dark Side of TESOL: The Hidden Costs of the Consumption of English

  • Piller, Ingrid;Takahashi, Kimie;Watanabe, Yukinori
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제20권
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    • pp.183-201
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    • 2010
  • Based on case studies from Japan and South Korea, this review paper explores the hidden costs of English language learning (ELL). In a context where English has become a commodity and ELL a form of consumption, we focus on the personal and social costs of (a) studying abroad as a much-touted path to "native-like" proficiency and (b) sexualization of language teaching materials in order to reach new niche markets. The hidden costs of ELL are embedded in language ideologies which set English up as a magical means of self-transformation and, at the same time, an unattainable goal for most Japanese and Koreans. We end with the call to expose debilitating language ideologies in order to shed light on the hidden costs of ELL.

Symbolic Violence of the Native Speaker Fallacy: A Qualitative Case Study of an NNES Teacher

  • Choi, Soo-Joung
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제15권3호
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    • pp.33-57
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    • 2009
  • Taking the issues of inequity and power between NES and NNES teachers as a starting point, this qualitative study explores the way the widespread belief of the native speaker fallacy manifests itself in one NNES teacher's teaching life and is linked to the teacher's understanding of herself as an English teacher. Guided by critical applied linguistics (Pennycook, 2001) and using Bourdieu's (1991) theorization of symbolic violence, I conducted an instrumental case study (Stake, 1995) in an ESL writing class at a US university. I collected data through classroom observations and interviews over a nine-month period and analyzed the data using the constant comparison method (Glaser and Strauss, 1967). The findings illustrate the ways the dominant ideology of the native speaker fallacy works to maintain and reproduce the status quo unequal relation between NES and NNES teachers by making all parties involved believe in the artificial sociocultural arrangements that favor NES teachers as legitimate. The findings direct our attention to the importance of critical teacher education that will enable future TESOL professionals to engage in critical reflection on diverse issues and envision transformative change. The findings, in particular, point to the need for language support for NNES teachers in TESOL teacher education.

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영어 모음과 철자간 대응성 결여 문제 (Problems of Discrepancy between English Vowels and Spelling)

  • 유만근
    • 대한음성학회지:말소리
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    • 제48호
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    • pp.69-80
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    • 2003
  • 음성 영어교육에서 각 음소(모음.자음) 음가 인식이 중요한 것은 물론이지만, 실제로 영어를 듣고 말하는 데는 강세모음과 약음(주로 음)이 번갈아들며 엮어내는 영어 특유 말씨 박자에 대한 이해가 오히려 더 중요한 면이 있다. 그런데 영어 철자가 자음 정보는 비교적 잘 보여주지만, 모음 정보는 정확히 알려주지 못한다. 이를테면 (equation omitted)를 적는 철자가 각각 20가지 이상이며, 특히 쭉정모음(schwa) $\partial$를 적는 철자는 무려 90가지가 넘는다. 이 $\partial$는 강세 그늘에서 비록 짧고 약하게 발음되지만 영어에서 딴 어느 모음보다도 훨씬 높은 빈도를 보이기 때문에 [(equation omitted)] 음가와 그것이 있는 자리, 즉 철자 밑에 숨어 그 존재를 알기 어려운 $\partial$ 음의 소재를 철저히 파악하는 것은 영어를 잘 듣고 영어답게 말하는 데에 필수 요체라 할 수 있다. 이 글에서는 쭉정모음(schwa) [$\partial$]를 포함한 영어 주요 모음 철자 다양성을 고찰하여 우리나라 음성 영어 교육(TEFL/TESOL)에 귀중한 참고 자료를 제공하고, 이를 통한 올바른 영어 발음 학습 태도를 제언한다.

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Analysis of a Korea-based Language Teacher Organization Public Social Networking Service

  • Kent, David
    • 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.

Conscientization and the Discursive Construction of Identity Across cultures: Using Literacy Autobiography as a Reflective and Analytical Tool

  • Pederson, Rod
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제20권
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    • pp.149-182
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    • 2010
  • This paper reports on an ongoing study that utilizes the literacy autobiographies of 10 Asian and 10 Western graduate students from TESOL Masters programs in Korea and America as data for a cross cultural study on the discursive process of identity formation and the development of critical consciousness (Freire, 2000). While the data suggests similarities and differences between cultures in terms of the effects of education, social relationships, media, and religion, no definitive claims may be made due to the small size of the research corpus. However, analysis of the data revealed that only four of the narratives could be judged as engaging in critical introspection of individual subjects systems of knowledge, values, and beliefs, as opposed to the other narratives that were primarily descriptive of individual personal experiences. As such, this study found that while the willingness and ability to engage in the critical practices which lead to the development of a critical consciousness are similar across cultures, they may be mediated by the literacy practices inscribed in education, media, and other social practices.

인터넷이 제공하는 언어 습득의 새로운 방법 활용 (On Exploiting New Methods of Language Acquisition Offered by the Internet)

  • 최미희 미쉘
    • 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.111-116
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    • 2013
  • 강의실에서 활동이 영어 학습자들로 하여금 그 유창성을 익히도록 하는데 제한적이기 때문에 언어에서 기술의 사용은 교육 도구로 매우 중요하다. 학습자의 주요 학습의 주제를 포함하고 있는 온라인 상의 보충자료를 얼마나 활용하느냐는 학습자의 학습 능력 향사에 결정적인 역할을 한다. 이 논문의 목적은 인터넷을 통해 제공 되어지는 모든 잠재적인 가능성의 활용에 근거하여 언어 습득에 관한 새로운 접근 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 영어 쓰기 과제를 학생들이 수행하는 과정에서 인터넷을 활용하는 효과적인 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 또한 학생들의 참여와 그 영어쓰기 실력 향상과의 비례관계를 보여준다.

모바일 영어말하기평가 융합 시스템 모형 타당도 검사 (The Development and Validation of a Mobile-based English Speaking Test Convergence Model)

  • 김정태
    • 한국융합학회논문지
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.25-31
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    • 2016
  • 본 연구에서는 모바일기반 영어말하기평가 융합 모형을 개발하였다. 대학생들에게 요구분석을 실시한 결과를 바탕으로 아이폰과 안드로이드 모바일기기용 평가 앱을 개발하고, 그 시험타당도 검사를 실시하였다. 영어말하기 평가 개발을 위하여 시험문항, 채점요인, 척도를 개발하였다. 요구분석에서 대학생 총 89명 중 69명(79.3%)은 안드로이드폰을, 17명(19.5%)은 아이폰을 사용하고 있었다. 이 결과를 기반으로 iOS와 안드로이드 OS용 영어말하기평가 앱을 개발하였다. 이를 위해 HTML5, Javascript bridge 기술, Node와 Express, Mongo DB 등의 기술을 적용하였다. 실험에서는 5명의 수험자를 대상으로 평가를 시행하여 모든 기능이 정상적으로 작동함을 확인하고 수험자들의 피드백을 수집함으로써 시험타당도를 확보하였다.