• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.1343-1353
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• 2013

It is necessary to teach science terminology in order to solve the problems induced from the fact that students have low comprehension in science terminology. The purpose of this study was to investigate science teacher's perception of teaching science terminology. The questionnaires consisted of perception of science terminology, science terminology for teaching, teaching of science terminology, and teaching methods for science terminology. As a result, science teachers had difficulty with science terminology and were not familiar with them as well as students were. Despite having perceived the necessity of teaching science terminology because it serves as a great influence on students to study science, they didn't have enough knowledge of the teaching methods for science terminology, so that they felt difficulties in teaching science terminology. Finally, science teachers hope to display new science terminology with explanations on each page of the science textbooks.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.767-775
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• 2019

This study was conducted to analyze explicit and implicit teaching cases of scientific terms in accordance with the 2015 revised curriculum, pointing out the problems of current textbooks in terms of scientific terms education and proposing method to improve them. Scientific terms used in eight science textbooks of 2015 revised curriculum, third and sixth graders of elementary school, first graders of middle school and first graders of high school were extracted, and cases used explicitly and implicitly were collected and analyzed. Brief summary of the results of the study is as follows. First, scientific terms were used in elementary, middle, and high school science textbooks at a rate of about 15 to 30 percent of the total vocabulary contained in the textbooks, which is on average more than five times larger than those in foreign countries based on the number of scientific terms included on each page. Second, among the scientific terms used in science textbooks, the percentage of scientific terms in which semantic education is achieved through explicit means was 9.7 to 18.8 percent, which naturally means that the remaining 80 percent or more of the scientific terms are presented in the form of implicit education. Third, even though the ratio of explicit term education should be higher in the lower grades, the ratio of explicit term education in elementary schools was lower than 10% in the sixth grade.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.26 no.4 s.287
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• pp.90-93
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• 1993

북한의 천문학용어는 한글을 많이 사용하고 있으며 「살별(혜성)」과 같이 전통적인 우리말을 사용하려고 노력하고 있다. 우리의 용어는 일본의 용어를 전용하여 사용하고 있는데 반해 북한의 용어는 그들의 주체성에 입각하여 일본식 용어에서 탈피하고 있다. 그렇지만 순한글용어와 한자식 용어가 혼용되고 있는 경우가 많다. 북한의 용어는 두음법칙이 없어 역을 력이라고 표기하는 등 우리와의 맞춤법이 약간 다르다. 그리고 외래어의 표기에 있어서도 우리와는 많이 다르다. 우리는 영어식 발음을 따르고 있는데 반해 북한은 러시아식 발음을 따르고 있다. 어원의 비교를 위해서 일본, 중국 용어도 첨가하였다. 중국은 일본식 용어와는 다른 중국 독자의 용어를 사용하고 있다. 그리고 고유명사를 제외하고, 외래어는 모두 뜻에 맞는 한자용어로 바꾸었다. 위성과 소행성, 성단, 별자리 등의 천체의 명칭도 적절한 중국용어를 사용하고 있다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.718-734
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• 2013

The purpose of the study is to investigate high school students' perception and understanding of old metaphorical science terminologies and new metaphorical science terminologies (highly metaphorical science terminologies). For the study, three old metaphorical terminologies and three new metaphorical terminologies have been chosen from the old and new Korean science curricula respectively, and 176 high school students who learned physics based on 7th science curriculum developed in 1997 and 175 highschool students who learned physics based on the science curriculum revised in 2009 were sampled from two high schools in a big city in Korea. The research results are as follows: First, for the old metaphorical terminologies, there are more students who give explanations using scientific terms than those who use the meaning of the metaphors that terminologies had. Second, for the new metaphorical terminologies, there are much less students who give explanations using scientific terms than those who explained using the meaning of the metaphors that the terminologies had. Therefore, it should be emphasized that, for the new metaphorical terminologies, the metaphorical meaning of the terminologies do not mean the concepts themselves in teaching science.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.1-28
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• 1991

The objective of this study is to prepare a source data in order to establish a standardization of scientific and technical terms in Korean language. This will contribute to accelerate the production of Korean databases in scientific and technical field and will be used as the most convenient search tool for accessing to the foreign database. This study includes the construction of the multi-lingual thesaurus comprising of Korean, English, and Japanese. First of all a theoretical background on thesaurus is reviewed, and terms are collected from JICST Thesaurus, English-Japanese List and JICST Thesaurus, Japanese-English List published by JICST in 1987. This multi-lingual thesaurus covers 38,318 terms of Korean descriptors, 2,870 terms of Korean non-descriptors, 38,318 terms of English descriptors, 11,910 terms of English non-descriptors, and 38,318 terms of Japanese descriptors, 9,789 terms of Japanese non-descriptors.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.26 no.9 s.292
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• pp.93-95
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• 1993

남한과 북한은 같은 언어를 사용하지만 거의 반세기 동안 교류가 없었고 정치사회적 환경 등이 달랐던 탓에 언어에서도 차이가 생기기 시작했다. 근래까지 남북한에서 쓰던 학술용어는 대부분 외래어나 일본식 한자말이었다. 그러나 최근 북한에서는 국가적으로 말다듬기운동을 일으켜 대부분 학술용어를 쉬운 우리말로 다듬었다. 남한에서는 대부분 의학용어가 아직도 일본식 한자말로 되어 있다. 최근 대한해부학회에서는 일본식 한자용어에 익숙한 사람들의 저항을 줄이면서 우리말다운 의학용어를 만든다는 데 바탕을 두고 1990년대에 새롭게 다듬은 해부학용어집을 펴냈다. 이들 용어를 비교하며 남북한 의학용어의 공통점과 차이점을 생각해보기로 한다. (일러두기:보기에 있는 용어의 순서는 (옛)-(남)-(북)이며, '옛'은 일본식 한자용어, '남'은 다듬은 해부학용어, '북'은 다듬은 북한용어를 가리킨다. []속의 용어는 앞의 용어와 함께 쓸 수 있도록 허용한 것이고, 용어 가운데 있는()속의 용어는 생략해서 쓸 수 있는 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.67-68
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• 2012

국방분야에서는 국방용어 사전 발간을 통해 각군의 효율적인 업무 연계 및 표준화된 국방 용어 유통 체계를 정립하는데 노력하고 있다. 국방기술품질원에서도 국방 과학기술 분야의 전문용어 사전 발간을 통해 각군의 과학기술 용어를 표준화함으로써 업무 연계 및 효율성 제고에 노력하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 전문용어 사전 구축 표준화 프로세스를 준용해서 국방 과학기술 전문용어 사전의 후보 용어 선정부터 정제, 시소러스 구축, 검수에 이르는 전주기 과정에 대한 실제 구축 내용을 기술하고 있다. 또한 전문용어 사전의 효율적 구축 및 관리를 위해 개발된 워크벤치의 기능을 중심으로 용어 선정, 정보 입력, 관리 기능을 기술하고 한다.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.573-582
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• 2013

This study was conducted to inquire the semantic structure with science terminology used in middle school science class, and based on this, we wanted to look for the way to increase effectiveness of science teaching. In this study, we extracted twenty-six science terminologies used in "Force and Motion" unit in middle school science textbook, and administered word association test using the 26 science terminologies to 316 middle school students. As the result, we found that students had a divergent semantic structure to given science terminology, and there were cases to be interpreted as different meaning with teacher's intention. Also, we identified the terminologies which were not familiar to middle school students. It was found that female students were more familiar with science termilology than male students, and there were differences between schools.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.289-299
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• 2020

In this study, the definition, the level of difficulty, and the certainty of the understanding of 113 astronomy terminologies from 2009 revised middle school geoscience textbooks were examined. And through further interviews, the types of students' misconceptions about astronomy terminologies and their representative terms - examples of misconceptions were analyzed. The definitions of the terms presented by the students were largely classified as correct, low-level, and incorrect understanding. And low-level understanding was subdivided into high-level definition descriptions, undifferentiated concepts, and incorrect answers were subdivided into interference by scientific misconception and lack of prior knowledge. Given that the misconceptions due to terminologies can be distinguished from the prior misconception, the misconceptions due to terminologies can be effectively prevented by changing the term itself. In addition, students were aware of the advantages and disadvantages of metaphorical terms, and the recognition of their level of understanding is expected to be a good starting point considering that recognizing their own misconceptions is the first step in correcting them. Terminologies in science education is always an important subject of discussions, striving to select the right term according to the times, and scientific terms may change. It is expected that the results of this study will be the basis for discussions on the modification of terms.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.735-750
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to relieve the difficulties caused by science terminology in science learning and increasing the efficiency of science education. The reason why students experience difficulties in science terminology is because science words are used without being filtered by a criteria and students have not had the opportunity to be educated properly in science terminology. As a way to solve this problem, we propose establishing a criteria about the science words used in science education and to teach the science words systematically to the students under the criteria. In this study, we used the method of empirical linguistics that investigate the science terminologies actually used in science education to establish a criteria for science words. As a basic research for this, we analyzed all words contained in the physics section of science textbooks for elementary and secondary schools. And then, we collected all words used in the physics section of science textbook, and selected the science words for teaching, and rated them by grade. As a result, a total of 930 physics terms were selected as the science words for grade 3 to 10. The numbers of physics terms per grade were as follows: 66 words for the 3rd grade, 38 words for the 4th grade, 35 words for the 5th grade, 28 words for the 6th grade, 203 words for the 7th grade, 135 words for the 8th grade, 123 words for the 9th grade, and 302 words for the 10th grade.