• 영어어문교육
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.19-38
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• 2010

This study surveyed L2 learners' needs for different components of communicative competence. It aimed to determine what abilities the learners strongly need to achieve communicative competence in different learning contexts. It also examined gender differences in the learners' need for phonological competence. A total of 359 students participated in this study, divided into three learner groups: high school, vocational college, and university students. The data were collected via a questionnaire, which was based on Bachman's (1990) framework of language competence. The study drew some important findings: (a) The vocational trainees expressed a stronger need for illocutionary competence than the high school students and for sociolinguistic competence than the high school and the university groups; (b) The high school and the university groups equated grammatical, textual, illocutionary, and strategic competences in their needs with lesser attention to sociolinguistic competence; (c) To the high school and the university groups, pragmatic competence was assessed higher than organizational competence; (d) Female students showed greater sensitivity to pronunciation ability than did male students. On the basis of these results, pedagogical implications are discussed, along with some helpful suggestions.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.71-90
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• 2003

The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent notions of communicative competence, especially as it is presented in Korean EFL education. Communicative competence has been modified and reinterpreted several times since the term was introduced by Hymes (1970). Paulston (1974) and Savignon (1983) focus on social interaction while Canale and Swain (1980) offer four categories of communicative competence: grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence. In addition, Tarone and Yule (1989) can be viewed as a systematic and comprehensive concept as well as a multi-dimensional mode (Bachman, 1990). Brown (2000) presents linguistic and functional aspects and Savignon's (1983) sociolinguistic competence has been transformed into sociocultural competence (Savignon, 2001). This study shows which aspects of Korean EFL education have been changed' and what needs to be accomplished for enhancing student's communicative competence.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제26권
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• pp.509-533
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to examine the sociolinguistic competence of female marriage-immigrants through analyzing their free colloquial discourse. Because previous studies on female marriage-immigrants have not been performed based on the natural illocutionary data, an accurate diagnosis of their communication method will be necessary for the efficiency of the Korean education aimed at them, and for the development of their communication ability. For this study, the colloquial discourse situation from five female marriage-immigrants from China, the Philippines and Vietnam was recorded. The sociolinguistic characteristics were analyzed centering on the use of designation, respect terms, and regional words. 'Eomma' was used as a designation for their husband's mother, which means that 'intimacy' worked for the designation of their husband's mother. The respect-word classes for others were limited to the 'haeyo' form and the 'hae' one, and the reception for listeners was often discarded. In addition, the influence of regional words was found in the vocabulary and grammar, and the more proficient the Korean language, the more frequent the regional word occurrence. Based on the above result, the teaching method of Korean for the immigrants shall be suggested as follows: the teaching has to focus on respect words positively influencing the relationship with the counterpart.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.35-48
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• 2001

One of the areas of second language acquisition that enjoyed popularity in recent years is interlanguage pragmatics. The main reason for this popularity lies in the critical role of pragmatic competence in appropriate use of a target language. The aim of this paper was to examine L2 learners' pragmatic behavior in their speech act performance and determine main sources causing pragmatic difficulty. Four major sources of pragmatic errors were identified: linguistic proficiency, L1 transfer, waffling and teaching activities. Each source was discussed with empirical evidence in some detail, and teaching suggestions were provided for developing learners' pragmatic competence in EFL classrooms.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.169-184
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to identify the most important factor(s) that contribute(s) to the overall oral proficiency and to examine whether the factor(s) play(s) a different role depending on the proficiency level of learners. Learners were divided into novice group and advanced group and were asked to produce an oral recording of a story based on a comic strip. The recordings were transcribed and graded by three raters. According to the results, the raters attained high inter-rater reliability when assessing advanced learners. However, the reliability level became considerably lower in the assessment of novice learners. The best predictor of oral proficiency among novice learners was sociolinguistic competence and fluency, while grammatical competence and fluency were the strongest predictors for advanced learners. The results suggest the need for a separate assessment tool for different proficiency levels and the need for a different focus in the classroom depending on the learners' proficiency level.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제42권
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• pp.261-283
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 모바일 애플리케이션을 활용하여 공손 영어 표현 학습의 가능성을 고찰하고자 하는 것이다. 의사소통 능력의 향상을 도모하기 위해서는 문법적, 담화 능력 외에도 사회 언어적 능력이 필요하다. 상대방이 누구인지, 어떠한 대화 상황에 직면했는지, 대화의 주제나 목적 등에 따라 사회적 가치에 맞는 적합한 표현을 구사할 줄 알아야 한다. 상대방의 지위나 나이가 화자보다 높거나 상대방과의 친밀도가 낮을 경우 한국인 화자는 공손한 표현을 구사하게 된다. 한국어는 언어 자체적으로 경어 체계를 지니고 있지만 영어는 이와 다르기 때문에 학습자들은 영어의 공손 표현을 학습할 필요가 있다. 이를 위해 공손 언어 학습에 학습자들이 교실에서 누구나 쉽게 사용할 수 있는 모바일을 접목시키고자 한다. 학습 교재로는 영국의 시대극 "다운튼 애비"(Downton Abbey)를 이용하였는데 이 드라마는 귀족들의 삶을 중심으로 다루었기 때문에 공손 표현을 학습하기에는 매우 적합하다. 모바일 활용을 통한 공손 영어 학습의 효율성과 모바일 애플리케이션의 활용 가능성을 고찰하기 위해 네이버 밴드를 활용한 실험반과 일반적인 팀별 활동을 중심으로 한 통제반을 설정하였다. 두 반의 공손 언어 학습 효과를 확인하기 위해 두 번의 평가가 시행되었고 개방형 설문조사가 실시되었다. 평가 결과 모바일 애플리케이션의 사용은 공손 영어 표현 학습에 긍정적인 효과가 있었으며 모바일이 수업 후 활동으로 사용하기에 효율적인 학습 도구인 것으로 나타났다. 개방형 설문 조사에서 학습자들은 공손 표현을 우아하거나 고급스러운 언어 형식으로 인지하거나 실용적 표현과 구분하는 경향이 있었다. 시대극을 이용하여 공손 언어를 교수할 경우 교수자들은 현대 영어와의 접목을 고려할 필요가 있겠다.