• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.27-46
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• 2007

Teachers can maximize students' L2 learning by knowing preferred learning styles. This paper presents the results of a survey that asked 309 English learners to identify their perceptual learning style preferences. It further compared students' favored learning styles in terms of their gender and major field of study and explored a possible link between learning styles and English achievement. Collected data using Reid's (1995) questionnaire were analyzed by descriptive statistics, MANOVA, ANOVA, correlations, multiple regressions including squared partial correlations, and Cronbach's alpha. The results indicated that Korean students favored English learning in group regardless of gender, while their preferred mode of learning was significantly different in regard to their major field of study. Certain learning styles might be profitable for English achievement. Multiple regression analyses revealed that individual mode of learning was the best predictor of students' English achievement. It furthermore showed significant relationships between visual and individual styles of learning and English performance. The findings of the study reflected students' English learning context in which English native-speaking teachers frequently used communicative pair and small group activities for speaking practices that were consonant with students' learning styles.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.67-85
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• 2007

The main concern of the study is the playwrights' perspectives toward the relationship between society and individuals rather than specific cultural or social circumstances. This study is justified in that the similarities of both playwrights not only provide an opportunity to bridge two different cultures, but they also help readers understand another culture and deepen the understanding of their own culture in the map of international literature. In their plays, both Miller and Cha express an individual's or a family's frustration, conflict, pleasure, and hope as reflected in the social circumstances. The characters take ideas and values from their social world and thrive or fail. Specifically, I have focused on three elements--obsession, generational value systems, and alienation. With three common features, I examine how closely Miller and Cha deal with ordinary people's tragedies.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.87-110
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• 2007

Past studies conducted on the students' verbal participation both in and out of class have explored and identified variables affecting the process of learning to speak English. However, little is known about the causes and effects of these variables. A survey form developed from a previous study was administered to 468 university students taking English conversation classes from native speakers of English. To better understand the causes and effects of speaking barriers, path analysis was administered as the main tool of investigation. The results of the study indicate that familiarities toward NS (Native Speaker) teachers, learner faithfulness, che-myon, NS teachers' classroom management skills, and NS teacher's trustworthiness account for 50.72% of speaking grades. These factors are causally related to learner attitudes. However, with regard to speaking grades, all of the above factors except che-myon are also causally related with each other. Therefore, it was concluded that learner attitudes can be improved by minimizing che-myon, however, che-myon itself cannot be a predictor of speaking grades. To validate the findings of the study, related research work is discussed and implications are provided.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.226-235
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• 2004

초등학생 프로그래밍 교육은 프로그래밍 활동을 통해 논리적 사고력과 문제 해결력을 신장시키는 데 의의를 두고 다양한 프로그래밍 교육 방법과 학습 시스템을 개발하려는 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 프로그래밍 교육의 목표가 프로그래밍적 사고력 함양이라면 프로그래밍적 사고를 언어로 표현하여 실제로 프로그램을 작성할 수 있는 프로그래밍 언어 사용 능력 함양도 필요하다. 초등학생 프로그래밍 언어 학습은 특정 언어의 문법적 설명과 해석을 지양하고 프로그래밍 언어에 대한 올바른 개념 이해와 활용을 통해 프로그램을 구현하는데 필요한 기초 소양 능력 함양에 중점을 두어야 한다. 따라서 초등학생을 위한 프로그래밍 언어 교육 방법의 체계화에 기여할 수 있는 하나의 모델로서, 프로그래밍 언어의 기본적인 개념 중 함수 개념을 효과적으로 지도할 수 있는 지도 원리와 학습 모형을 연구하였고, 함수가 가진 특성 즉 함수적 사고과정을 이용하여 프로그래밍 언어 기술 능력과 논리적 사고력 및 문제해결력의 고등인지기술 능력을 함께 신장시킬 수 있는 지도 방법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2017.08a
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• pp.117-120
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• 2017

객체지향 프로그래밍은 산업과 교육 분야에서 그 영향력이 점차 커지고 있다. 그러나 객체지향은 추상적이고, 복합적인 개념을 많이 포함하고 있어 처음 객체지향 언어를 배우는 초보학습자는 개념을 이해하는데 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 또한 객체지향 개념들은 상호 연관성이 매우 높아 기본 개념을 이해하지 못하면 다음 단계의 개념을 이해할 수 없다. 따라서 본 논문은 초보학습자의 객체지향 개념의 이해를 돕기 위해 클래스와 객체 모델, 클래스간의 상속 모델을 도식화하여 제안한다. 이 모델을 이용하여 객체지향의 핵심 개념인 클래스, 객체, 레퍼런스 변수, 상속, 오버라이딩, 다형성, 동적 바인딩의 이해도를 높일 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.251-252
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• 2016

프로그래밍 언어 수업은 학습자들 간의 학습 수준의 차이가 크게 나타나고 수업 내용의 연관성이 높은 특성을 가지고 있다. 이로 인해 다른 어떠한 수업보다 학습자들의 학습동기를 향상시켜 지속적으로 학습에 적극적으로 참여할 수 있는 외재적 동기 부여를 통한 학습효과 증진 방법이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 프로그래밍 교육에서 성찰일지를 활용한 학습동기 증진 교수 학습 모델을 제시하고, 실제 수업에 적용 후 학습동기에 대한 사전 사후 설문을 실시하여 제시한 교수 학습 모델이 학습동기 증진에 효과 있었음을 조사 분석하였다.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.51-59
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• 2004

The signs have been used as the world-wide common language. Because all units have their own meanings, their usage should be kept correctly. This paper shows how middle school students know and keep the usage of SI units. And this paper shows the necessity of teaching the students correct units in their schools.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.121-132
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• 2013

In education, innovative ways of teaching and learning are always under development and keep being proposed with advanced concepts since the ancient times. Student-centered learning, problem-based learning and cooperative learning have been three major trends under development in secondary education research and practice more than a decade or so. Combined with advanced information and communication technologies, these trends will greatly transform the way we teach and learn in classroom environment and may change the classroom environment itself, into a more interactive and self-centered coaching type environment. In this study, a smart environment that utilizes advanced information technology devices and network is conceptualized, accommodating requirements contained and proposed in the recent trendy pedagogies. Pedagogical cases discussed in these trends are analyzed in detail, producing requirements for such a learning and coaching environment. These requirements are modeled using unified modeling language, leading to a proposal of a basic architecture for an information system supporting this environment.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.1-23
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• 2004

This article reports a bi-directional interlanguage study designed to investigate the initial state of L2 acquisition with regard to English and Korean wh-questions. Based on the UG system in line with the minimalist theory, it was hypothesized that the L2 initial state is characterized by the most economical form of syntax in which no overt wh-movement to Spec-CP is assumed. Results of the early interlanguage study showed that 1) L1 Korean learners of L2 English predominantly produced wh-questions with the fronted wh-word, but without productive wh-movement to the Spec-CP position; and 2) L1 English learners of L2 Korean overwhelmingly produced wh-questions with the wh-word remaining in-situ. These results were interpreted as supporting the minimalist account of the L2 initial grammar in that no overt syntactic wh-movement were adopted in early interlanguages of both English and Korean regardless of the learner's L1.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.67-87
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to show how the coda of a syllable and word-final clusters are represented in the English syllable structure. Previous theories on the syllable assume that there is only one segment in the coda position. And, as we know, the theories that license only one segment in the coda make it difficult to syllabicate the word-final cluster appropriately when more than two segments in the word-final cluster are encountered. I considered three approaches: the previous syllable structure (Selkirk, 1982; Borowsky 1989), sonority sequencing (Giegerich, 1992; Roca, 1999) and feature analysis (Goldsmith, 1990), But, all the considered methods don't give us a satisfactory explanation regarding word-final clusters. Finally, I will suggest a modified syllable representation as an alternative by placing two different appendixes under the Phonological Word which forms a constituent above the syllable node. From this it is possible to explain the former problematic word-final clusters including morphological information asan inflectional suffix in the structure.