• 셀메드
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.9.1-9.6
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• 2023

This study aims to explore the potential of Korean language learning as a means of psychological healing and improving the quality of life for Japanese middle-aged and older learners. Results showed that Korean language learning could help alleviate various psychological issues experienced by middle-aged learners and contribute to enhancing their quality of life. Learning a foreign language is not just about acquiring information but also about meeting people who use the language and understanding and experiencing their culture. In particular, for Japanese middle-aged learners, Korean language learning can be advantageous as it can lead to the discovery or development of new hobbies or interests. Results also showed that Korean language learning increased learners' opportunities for interaction with others and enjoyment of learning new cultural customs. These positive outcomes suggest the need for discussion of teaching strategies that focus on psychological healing in foreign language education. Further clinical trials with participants who learn foreign languages for healing purposes may provide more conclusive evidence on the diverse effects of language learning on stress, anxiety, depression, self-development, social connections, and cognitive ability.

• Educational Technology International
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.41-66
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• 2022

Vocabulary learning plays an important role in language learning. This study explored a new paradigm based on social networking site (SNS) supported collaborative learning for vocabulary learning. SNS supported collaborative learning (SSCL) can effectively promote learners' engagement, interest and motivation by providing a more communicative and interactive environment. However, vocabulary learning studies on SSCL mainly focused on the effectiveness and influencing factors, lacking specific instructional strategies. Therefore, this study aims to develop instructional strategies that guide instructors to create an SSCL environment for facilitating vocabulary learning. The final instructional strategies are composed of three stages according to the course process, consisting of 8 general strategies and 21 specific guidelines. The content validity was ensured by four experts in the field of educational technology. The instructional strategies were then applied in an actual classroom with 16 students. The positive responses from the instructor and learners indicated that SSCL can be reasonably incorporated into the current curriculum to provide effective learning opportunities and to promote learners' vocabulary learning.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제9권spc호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2003

This paper aims to propose that Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a method that can help meet the conditions in language learning and instruction. PBL was first used in medical education, where learners engaged in problem-solving activities that reflect the demands of real-life professional practice, thus promoting critical thinking in the content domain. The paper proposes that by applying PBL in language learning and creating situations in which learners work collaboratively on problems, the learners benefit in two respects: (i) they have the opportunity to practise the kind of thinking skills and problem-solving strategies needed in real life, and (ii) they engage in purposeful language activity with others through discussion and negotiation. The paper first provides a theoretical rationale far the use of PBL in language learning and suggests attendant changes in the role of a language instructor in a PBL context. The paper then presents an outline of the stages and components needed in designing an online PBL Unit far use in an undergraduate language class.

• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.281-308
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of CMC-based English learning. In this study, CMC components were found to provide circumstances of facilitating interactions between student-student and student-student-teacher, which enabled students to accomplish language learning tasks. Findings of this study are as follows: First, CMC based language learning experience helps students have positive attitudes toward their English language learning. Second, student-student-instructor interaction group outperformed other groups in academic achievement and class activity participation. Third, cooperative learning groups more actively participated in the class activity than the individual learning group resulting in better academic performances. These findings supported the fact that cooperative learning with CMC components are useful in bringing more class participation and positive attitude that were believed to foster language learning than other groups in traditional language learning environments. This study suggests that the instructor needs to use instructional design strategies helpful to facilitate active interactions between instructors and students in order to achieve better effectiveness of English learning in a CMC based learning environment.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2019

In the age of information, newly produced knowledge is mostly written in English. Therefore, there has been a strong demand for English language learning in the EFL context. However, most EFL learners possess a lack of interest and motivation in the text-based reading class. In this educational context, film is one of the most widely used materials in English reading classes considering that modern learners are predominantly familiar with various audiovisual materials. The purpose of this study is to investigate how Korean EFL learners experienced in the film-based reading class. Specifically, this study aims to analyze the EFL students' perceptions about the class and learning strategies that they used during the class. In order to comprehensively interpret the EFL learners' experiences in the classroom, a coding system consisting of five categories was developed: report, emotion, reflection, evaluation, future plans. The results of data analysis showed that the use of movies in English reading classes had positive effects on reading comprehension and inference of word meaning. The most frequently used learning strategies were affective strategies which helped them control their emotion, attitude, motivations and values, whereas memorization strategies were rarely used. In this respect, this study suggests that the use of movies in the EFL reading classroom encourage students' attention and help them obtain and activate schema which is useful in gaining a better understanding of text-based reading materials.

• 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)

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2006

프로그래밍 학습은 컴퓨터 과학에 있어 매우 중요한 과목이지만, 대부분의 학생들은 프로그래밍 배우는 것을 어려워하고 있다. 프로그래밍 교육에 대한 새로운 교수방법이나 기술적 관점의 연구가 필요한 시점이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 Pair Programming을 통해 프로그래밍 교육의 가능성을 살펴보고, 교육적 효과를 높이기 위한 Pair Programming을 제안하였다. 제안된 교수 학습 전략을 실험한 결과, 학업성취도와 학습전략에 있어 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 특히 학습전략에 있어서는 비판적 사고, 메타인지, 노력조절, 동료학습 영역들이 긍정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국어교육
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.203-234
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• 2014

This paper demonstrates how to incorporate the teaching of communication strategies into a large class of English-speaking learners of the Korean language. The method proposed here was developed to overcome the difficulty of conducting language activities involving communicative interactions amongst students and also between teacher and students in a large classroom. As a way of compensating the minimal opportunities for interactions in the classroom, students are given the task of expressing in Korean the English translations of authentic Korean comics via Twitter, which was later replaced with the feedback feature on Moodle, and then their Korean expressions are collected and projected onto a big screen. These collected expressions by students naturally differ from one another, helping students to realize that it is possible for them to express the same message or meaning in many different ways. The results of two separately conducted questionnaires show that this method is an effective way of providing students with significantly increased chances of producing 'comprehensible output' that requires them to think of how to communicate with their limited knowledge of the Korean language. Many students also commented that the teachers' feedback on errors provides them with the opportunity to learn about common errors as well as their own errors.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.435-444
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• 2014

최근 외국어 학습에 있어 어휘 학습의 중요성이 부각되며 어휘학습전략 교육에 대한 관심이 급증하였다. 하지만 어휘학습전략 연구는 아직 미비한 상태로, 특히 어휘 학습이 필수적인 어린이 영어 학습자 대상의 연구가 필요하겠다. 따라서 본 연구는 초등학교 영어 교과서에 수록되어 있는 어휘학습 활동과 전략을 분석하여, 전반적인 사용 실태를 알아보고 어린이 영어어휘 지도에 주는 시사점을 논의하고자 한다. 이를 위해 초등학교 5학년 영어 교과서 중 총 3개의 교과서와 교사지도서를 선택하고, 수록된 어휘관련 학습활동들을 Schmitt(1997)의 어휘학습전략 분류표로 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 분석에 사용된 교과서 3종 모두 다양한 어휘학습전략의 종류를 포함하지 않았다. 3종의 교과서에서 사용된 전략은 상위전략인 발견전략과 강화전략 중 Y사 교과서에서 발견된 '영한사전을 이용한다'를 제외하고는 모두 강화전략이었으며, 암시적인 학습방법이 사용되었다. 우리나라 학습자들이 제한된 어휘학습전략을 선호하고 사용한다는 국내 선행연구 [2][4][23]의 결과를 고려해볼 때, 영어교육현장에서는 앞으로 보다 다양한 어휘학습전략을 여러 가지 방법으로 소개하고 활용해볼 수 있는 기회를 제공할 필요성이 있겠다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.21-47
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of English vocabulary learning strategies such as definition-oriented/contextoriented/situated context-oriented vocabulary learning strategy according to the cognitive styles of learners and interaction effect on the achievement test score between the learners' cognitive style and vocabulary learning strategies. The results show that there is no significant difference in the achievement test scores between field-dependent learner group and field-independent learner group. And there is significant difference in the English vocabulary achievement test scores among three experimental treatment groups, definition-oriented, context-oriented, situated context-oriented vocabulary learning strategy groups. Finally, there is an interaction effect on the achievement test score between the learners' cognitive style and vocabulary learning strategies.