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Translator-Assisted L2 Writing, Necessary or Not?: Beginner University Learners' Perceptions of Its Validity (대학 L2 글쓰기에서 번역기 사용은 필요한가?: 타당성에 대한 초급반 학습자의 인식)

  • Kim, Kyung-Rahn
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2020
  • This study aimed to investigate beginner-level learners' use of translators in L2 writing, and shed light on its validity in writing performance through their responses on the necessity, reliability and limitation of machine translation. 117 university students from beginner-level L2 writing classes participated in the survey. Additionally, 11 of them were interviewed about their answers. The survey and interview data revealed varying viewpoints such as reliability and effects as well as reasons for choosing translator-assisted writing. The vast majority(76.1%) used web-based machine translators for their writing activities, and employed various strategies to help their insufficient L2 skills and to increase their motivation and confidence. On the other hand, they exhibited its detrimental effects including it could lead to plagiarism, and interfere with the learning process unless they post-edited the given translation. However, translators were viewed as a new, efficient, and valid educational tool for effective and successful L2 writing.

A Study on Teaching-Learning Methods of Mathematics with Writing (쓰기를 활용한 수학과 교수-학습 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Nam Yoo-ra;Lim Mun Kyu
    • Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.89-108
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    • 2004
  • Elementary mathematics education in the 7th mathematics curricula has been emphasized to foster ‘mathematical power’. For establishing this purpose, we need to provide the opportunities inducing to students' thoughts and to study leaching-learning methods to make structuring for their thinking process. Using to writing activities in students' mathematics learning, we think that we can find out their thinking process and this writing mathematics learning method is effective to promote their communication. Through analysing to six grade mathematics textbooks, we devised to mathematical writing types and teaching/learning models could being utilized in mathematics classes. And we investigated the influence of mathematical writing on the learning ability of students. We have experimented and investigated to after dividing experimental objects into two groups, experimental group and comparative group. We founded out, through these researches for mathematical writing teaming, that the experimental group of the former had obtained greatly better results than the latter in mathematical learning abilities and studying achievements. Based on these result, it is required to have an accumulation of research on teaching-teaming methods by using various types of mathematical writing study.

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The Current State and Prospects of Peer Assessment (동료평가의 현황과 전망)

  • Park, Jooyong;Park, Jung Ae
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.85-104
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    • 2018
  • Peer assessment in educational setting, refers to activities in which students provide grades or comments on other students' accomplishments such as writing, presentation, or performances. In case of writing, peer assessment can allow instructors to give out more writing assignments, which were often avoided because of the burden of grading. Moreover, grading other students' writing can enhance learning by having students participate in the assessment process. This review will introduce major peer assessment systems and results from empirical studies on peer assessment, examine obstacles to its more wide-spread use, and discuss topics for further research. We hope this paper will facilitate further studies and use of peer assessment in actual educational settings, and eventually lead to many changes in assessment and teaching in Korea.

Development of Chinese Character Writing Recognition For Chinese Character Edutainment Contents (한자 에듀테인먼트 콘텐츠를 위한 한자쓰기인식기능개발)

  • Park, Hwa-Jin;Min, So-Young;Lee, Ha-Na;Park, Young-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.529-536
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    • 2009
  • Interest in Chinese edutainment contents product has been increasing with the importance of Chinese Education Recently, empirical education with some fun activities is in the limelight breaking the traditional passive learning. Due to a such social necessity, we develop web-based Chinese Edutainment Contents for children, utilizing multimedia functions. Especially since writing Education is very important in learning chinese characters, we also developed a writing recognition function which checks the order of making strokes in writing Chinese character. Different from the existing outline area-based writing system, it determines if the character is well-written comparing to the prestored reference points in each Chinese characters, after recognizing the order of strokes and extracting peculiar points.

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An analysis of mathematical story writing activities of 1st grade students (초등학교 1학년 학생들의 수학 이야기 쓰기 활동 분석)

  • Lee, Yuna;Ko, Junghwa
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.15-37
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    • 2015
  • As the value and importance of mathematical communication was recognized, mathematical communication in mathematics education has been strengthened more and more. Written communication as well as verbal communication is emphasized. On the other hand, storytelling is introduced for elementary students to learn mathematical concept more naturally and easily in the 2009 revised curriculum. So, we noticed that they are familiar with story. In this study, we analyze the story writing activity levels with a focus on story writing, and how to think about it. And we offer some suggestions about mathematical story writing activity.

A Study on Bibliotherapy Program for Middle School Student Who have Lower Self-Esteem (중학생들의 낮은 자존감 극복을 위한 독서치료 프로그램에 관한 고찰 -치료적 글쓰기 활동을 중심으로 -)

  • Yang Jae-Han
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.21-46
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    • 2005
  • This is to deal with the cure writing activities for middle school students who have lower self-esteem. It also tries to find out what the structure of human mind and self-esteem are. Furthermore, Bibliotherapy program to overcome the lower self-esteem are designed for the students with the problems.

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USING ASTRONOMY AND BOTANY TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILLS

  • NUTARO, SUKANYA;NITHITAKKHARANON, PIYAPHAT
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.745-747
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    • 2015
  • Astronomy is one of the interesting but difficult topics in science for elementary education. Therefore, it is interesting to create astronomy activities that children can understand clearly. The researchers developed activities by using astronomy and botany to improve writing skills. They have to glue the local flowers on the star pictures then write the name of those flowers, the name of the constellation and write an essay describing their work. The participants are into two groups. 71 $3^{rd}$ year undergraduate students who registered for teaching and are learning science as an elementary education subjec, and 10 $1^{st}$ grade student from the laboratory school of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat university. We can conclude that both groups were more interested in astronomy, they can tell the name of local flowers and not only used their imagination to create their work, but also to write great essays.

An Investigation of Students' Science Writing Processes Using Think-aloud Method (발성사고법을 이용한 학생들의 과학 글쓰기 과정 탐색)

  • You, Jiyeon;Kang, Sukjin;Kim, Jiyeong;Noh, Taehee
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.881-892
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    • 2013
  • It has been recently emphasized that comprehensive understanding of students' cognitive activities in the process of writing as well as final product is needed in order to develop an effective strategy for science writing. In this study, we investigated the characteristics of writing process in the situation that students wrote a composition in solving the application problem on a science topic. Seven eighth graders selected in the consideration of their science achievement and communication skills were asked to write a composition using think-aloud method. They were also interviewed after their writing work. The analyses of the results indicated that students' writing processes consisted of six distinctive components: generating, organizing, setting, translating, evaluating, and revising. It was also found that the patterns of process components for each student were different in terms of the frequency and the sequence. The patterns of process components were categorized into four types: systematic, tacit planning, trial and error, and random strategies. Educational implications were also discussed.

A Study on the Effect of Conversing Action Learning in a Collaborative EFL Classroom (협력형 EFL 교실에서 실천학습 융합 효과에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Myeong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.7
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of action learning methods and practices, which have a research focus on learner-centered teaching after training students to use collaborative learning practices from the viewpoint that the learners acquire English skills through peer correction activities based on sociocultural learning theory[1]. From March 1, 2018 to June 15, 2018, one control class and one experimental group were selected from the general freshman English courses. The experimental group attended classes centered on collaborative writing activities using action learning and cooperation techniques, and the control group attended classes lecture style and rote learning methods to teach writing. The result of study has shown that, for the experimental group, there have been statistically significant results in the production of writing, such as the number of words, the number of sentences, and sentence length. Learners could share the knowledge or ideas of others in their learning relationships with more regular basis.

Writing Textbooks for Elementary School Mathematics in Accordance with the Seventh Curriculum (제7차 교육과정에 따른 초등학교 수학 교과용 도서 편찬)

  • 배종수
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.85-102
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    • 1998
  • Since textbooks for elementary school mathematics in accordance with the seventh curriculum are 'Class I' textbooks, which are used as one and only one textbooks throughout the country, the following aspects have been considered: In the legal aspect, the contents including the curriculum for mathematics asked of the Writing Committee by the Ministry of Education were reflected; in the aspect of theory of mathematics education, the textbooks are written in a way appropriate to theory of mathematics education; and in the aspect of application of reality, the textbooks are written to help improving mathematics education in classrooms. Therefore, the main frame of writing the textbooks is to make students feel proud enough to say "I have done mathematics", through helping students rationally solve problems surrounding them by themselves with their experiences and activities. In the above viewpoint the following sentence is reflected upon: "Hundred explanations are not equal to one manipulation activity."

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