• 영어어문교육
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.153-171
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• 2003

The scores of TOEFL, TOEIC, and TEPS have been increasingly used for many purposes in Korea. In particular, these test scores are being used as a predictor for determining readiness for and success in college work, or as a measure of the testees' overall English proficiency. Nonetheless, studies have rarely proposed that the validity of the test scores is used for either purpose. As a preliminary step to explore the predictive validity of the test scores, we collected the scores of TOEFL, TOEIC, and TEPS from thirty students of a university as well as their cumulative grade point averages (GPAs). The correlations between the test scores and GPAs show that TOEFL will be most likely to have the highest validity coefficient as a predictor for determining success in college work as well as a measure of overall English proficiency. Although this study has a few limitations such as the small number of participants, their homogeneousness as a group, etc., it provides some insight into the use of the three tests for college admissions and measurement of overall English proficiency and suggests need for conducting further validation studies in these areas.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2011

Foreign accent in second language production depends heavily on the transfer of features from the first language. This study examines acoustic variations in segments and suprasegments by native and nonnative speakers of English, searching for patterns of the transfer and plausible indexes of foreign accent in English. The acoustic variations are analyzed with recorded read speech by 20 native English speakers and 50 Korean learners of English, in terms of vowel formants, vowel duration, and syllabic variation induced by stress. The results show that the acoustic measurements of vowel formants and vowel and syllable durations display difference between native speakers and nonnative speakers. The difference is robust in the production of lax vowels, diphthongs, and stressed syllables, namely the English-specific features. L1 transfer on L2 specification is found both at the segmental levels and at the suprasegmental levels. The transfer levels measured as groups and individuals further show a continuum of divergence from the native-like target. Overall, the eldest group, students who are in the graduate schools, shows more native-like patterns, suggesting weaker foreign accent in English, whereas the high school students tend to involve larger deviation from the native speakers' patterns. Individual results show interdependence between segmental transfer and prosodic transfer, and correlation with self-reported proficiency levels. Additionally, experience factors in English such as length of English study and length of residence in English speaking countries are further discussed as factors to explain the acoustic variation.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.63-90
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• 2007

The present study investigated what combination of three form-focused options - explicit explanation, production practice, and corrective feedback - may be effective in helping low-proficiency learners improve accuracy in communicative writing. The subjects were 34 Korean university students enrolled in 'Business English 1' and the study lasted 11 weeks. The relative clause structure was selected as the target structure. The study found that the combination of explicit explanation, sentence-level production practice, communicative writing practice, and recasts had a significantly greater effect on improved accuracy than the combination of communicative writing practice and recasts and that of explicit explanation, communicative writing practice, and recasts. Because the second and third combinations didn't lead to significantly improved accuracy, it can be concluded that of the form-focused options forming the first combination sentence-level production practice made a decisive contribution to the significant increase in accuracy. It also found that the provision of self-correcting opportunities before providing recasts on errors committed in sentence-level production practice resulted in significantly greater accuracy in communicative writing than the provision of recasts alone on them. The results of the study suggest that we should make low-proficiency Korean learners have sentence-level production practice which is intensive and focused and make them self-correct targeted errors before providing them with narrowly focused recasts in order to help them to improve writing accuracy.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.821-841
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• 2009

This paper explores the ways to reshape humanistic values of the curriculum of the English department of Korean universities. The English curricula are usually composed of three fields of literary studies, general education, and English proficiency, whose conventional humanistic values have been currently dwindling. As for literary studies, teaching literature still hovers over the canonical works of past decades, not allowing students to access the canon with their own ideas and ending up with authoritative monologues. The general education field leans toward edited texts rather than authentic ones, which ignores a genuine path of communication between the author and its readers. Subjects for English proficiency such as "TOEIC" tend to be taught online with no teacher's presence for the nominal purpose of optimizing economic efficiency in teaching. All these testify to the attenuation of humanistic values in the curriculum, which motivates us to suggest some ways to reshape the values. Authoritative monologue in teaching literature can be shifted to the open-ended conversation by using role-play methods as well as accepting extra-canonical works into the curriculum. Authentic texts for general education prove to be preferred by students with the successful result of our experiment. Lastly, it is teacher's presence in the class that helps get higher achievement of "TOEIC" than some online classes. As suggested above, open-ended conversation, wider communication between author and readers, and human presence of the class will help reshape humanistic values in the English curriculum.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.373-380
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• 2008

이 연구의 목적은 한국대학생들의 영어 시제습득에 관한 것이다. 이를 위해 다음과 같이 연구문제를 제시하였다 첫 번째, 영어 시제습득이 실험집단과 통제집단에 차이가 있는가? 두 번째, 영어 능숙도에 따라 영어 시제 습득에 차이가 있는가? 를 조사하였다. 이 연구의 대상은 광주소재의 C 대학교 교양 영어를 수강하는 77명의 학생들이며 실험집단 39명이고 통제 집단은 38명이었다. 이 연구를 위한 자료는 영어 시제에 관한 40문제를 제시하였고 설문지 기법을 이용하였다. 이 연구의 분석방법은 통계프로그램인 SPSS 12.0을 이용하여 t 검정 방법을 실행하였다. 분석 결과 비록 하위 집단에서는 유의미한 차이를 보이지 않았으나, 실험집단과 통제집단은 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 있었다. 독해지문을 활용한 영어시제 학습을 함으로써 학생들은 수업에 흥미를 가지고 참여 하였고 그 결과 실험집단이 통제집단보다 더 높은 학업 성취도를 보였다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.251-257
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 외국인 학부 유학생이 보고서를 쓰는 과정에서 자신의 의견, 주장의 논리를 강화하기 위해 선정한 자료를 인용하는 경우, 어떤 수사학적 유형을 많이 사용하고 있는지, 한국어 능력이 상위인 그룹과 하위인 그룹의 수사학적 기능 선택 양상은 어떻게 다른지를 살펴보기 위해 유학생의 보고서 30편을 분석해 보았다. 외국인 유학생들은 자신의 보고서에서 자신의 논의를 설득력 있게 전개하고 보완하기 위해 '통계" 인용을 가장 많이 사용하였으며, 다음으로는 귀속, 사례제시, 용어 사용 순이었다. 또한, 한국어 능력이 상위에 속하는 그룹은 자신의 보고서에서 보통 8-11회 정도의 인용을 사용하였으며 귀속, 사례제시, 용어 사용, 통계, 자료간의 관계 구축, 자신의 주장과 다른 자료를 비교하는 등 다양한 수사학적 유형을 사용한 반면, 하위에 속하는 그룹은 다양한 인용의 유형을 거의 사용하지 못하고 있었다. 따라서 "인용"이 자신의 논리를 강화할 수 있는 하나의 중요한 전략이라는 인식을 갖게 하고 다양한 인용의 유형을 유용한 보고서 쓰기 전략으로서 교육해야 하며 교수방안을 마련해야 할 것이다.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보교육학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.223-229
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• 2006

2005년 고등학교를 졸업한 학생들이 처음으로 제7차 교육과정을 이수하고 대학에 들어가게 되었다. 이 연구는 이와 같은 시점에서 중등 교육과정을 마친 학생들의 컴퓨터 교육 경험 실태를 분석하여 효율적인 대학교양 컴퓨터 소양교육을 위한 시사점을 제시하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위하여 대학 신입생들을 대상으로 질문지 조사를 실시하여 중등학교와 학교 밖에서 컴퓨터 관련 교육이 어느 정도 이루어졌는지, 컴퓨터를 어떻게 활용하고 있는지, 학습 경험은 어느 수준인지를 분석하였다. 이러한 분석을 바탕으로 대학교양 과정의 컴퓨터 소양교육을 위한 시사점을 도출하였다.

• 한국시스템다이내믹스연구
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.55-69
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze nursing students' proficiency with ST(Systems Thinking) approach concerning asthma patient nursing process. For this study, 20 nursing students created causality cognitive maps which were consisted of the contents of 'asthma nursing care'. The word association and causality cognitive map were used to estimate ability of the ST. As a result, the students failed to understand the nursing process with the ST approach, or alternatively they applied low level ST approach and had a lower understanding of it. The findings of this study suggest that the development of a ST-based nursing educational program in order for nursing students to improve their ST ability as well as knowledge integration for multidisciplinary practice.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.391-411
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of culture teaching and using web sites as a method of culture teaching in college English education. To achieve these purposes, a web-based culture teaching-learning model was developed and applied in English classes. Then, the effects were compared with those of a culture teaching method which were based on the traditional verbal explanation. As the tools for this study, two test sheets were used to measure language proficiency and American cultural knowledge. Focusing on the study results, the conclusions were summed up as follows: First, for enhancing the American cultural knowledge, using the web was found to be more effective than traditional verbal explanations. Second, for English language enhancement through web-based culture teaching, it is necessary to do it for each level of English proficiency or develop web sites which fit well with students' interests or levels.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.9-20
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• 2002

본 논문은 방학기간 중 실시되는 몰입형 영어교육이 학생들의 영어능력을 향상시키는데 효과적인지 검증해본다. 학생들의 영어능력 차이는 여러 가지 요인에 기인한다. 또한 학생들의 영어능력 또는 능력향상에 유의한 영향을 미치는 객관적인 요인들을 찾아 보는 것이 본 논문의 두 번째 목적이다. 분석 방법으로는 일반화 선형모형 (GLM)을 주로 사용한다.