• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.185-204
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• 2008

The purposes of this study are to analyze sentence structures of word problems suggested in educational math programs for the 2nd grade elementary students and error patterns in sentence interpretation, and examine how sentence structures influence on errors during sentence comprehension. Based on the results of the analysis on 168 word problems suggested in math textbooks for the 2nd grade elementary students and error patterns observed while 160 the 2nd grade elementary students attempted to solve math word problems, easy and simple vocabularies are repeatedly used in the sentence structures of word problems and specific real life materials such as fruits, books, the number of people and etc. were repeatedly used. 51.56% of errors in sentence interpretation observed was higher than 39.20% of calculation errors and backtracking operation, a length of sentences, the numbers used in questions and off were analyzed to be involved in the errors in interpretation. Therefore, it is very important to make word problems from a student's points of view rather than a teacher's point of view and the study suggests that teachers help students learn basic sentence interpretation skills.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.51-60
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• 2018

This study aims to compare the word decoding skills, phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN) skills, and letter knowledge of first graders with developmental dyslexia (DD) and those who were typically developing (TD). Eighteen children with DD and eighteen TD children, matched by nonverbal intelligence and discourse ability, participated in the study. Word decoding of Korean language-based reading assessment(Pae et al., 2015) was conducted. Phoneme-grapheme correspondent words were analyzed according to whether the word has meaning, whether the syllable has a final consonant, and the position of the grapheme in the syllable. Letter knowledge asked about the names and sounds of 12 consonants and 6 vowels. The children's PA of word, syllable, body-coda, and phoneme blending was tested. Object and letter RAN was measured in seconds. The decoding difficulty of non-words was more noticeable in the DD group than in the TD one. The TD children read the syllable initial and syllable final position with 99% correctness. Children with DD read with 80% and 82% correctness, respectively. In addition, the DD group had more difficulty in decoding words with two patchims when compared with the TD one. The DD group read only 57% of words with two patchims correctly, while the TD one read 91% correctly. There were significant differences in body-coda PA, phoneme level PA, letter RAN, object RAN, and letter-sound knowledge between the two groups. This study confirms the existence of Korean developmental dyslexics, and the urgent need for the inclusion of a Korean-specific phonics approach in the education system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.17-27
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• 2012

Open Market is one of the key factors to accelerate the profit. Usually retailers sell items in several Open Market. One of the challenges for retailers is to assign categories of items with different classification systems. In this research, we propose an item category recommendation method to support appropriate products category registration. Our recommendations are based on semantic relation between existing and any other Open Market categorization. In order to analyze correlations of categories, we use Morpheme analysis, Korean Wiki Dictionary, WordNet and Google Translation API. Our proposed method recommends a category, which is most similar to a guide word by measuring semantic similarity. The experimental results show that, our system improves the system accuracy in term of search category, and retailers can easily select the appropriate categories from our proposed method.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2007

In most of hearing aids, amplification algorithms are used to compensate hearing loss, noise and feedback reduction algorithms are used and to increase the perception of speeches contrast enhancement algorithms are used. However, acoustic masking effect is occurred between formants if contrast is enhanced excessively. To confirm the masking effect in speeches, the experiment are composed of 6 tests; test pure tone test, speech reception test, word recognition test, pure tone masking test, formant pure tone masking test and speech masking test, and for objective evaluation, LLR is introduced. As a result of normal hearing subjects and hearing impaired subjects, more making is occurred in hearing impaired subjects than normal hearing subjects when using pure tone, and in the speech masking test, speech reception is also lower in hearing impaired subjects than in normal hearing subjects. This means that acoustic masking effect rather than distortion influences speech perception. So it is required to check the characteristics of masking effect before wearing a hearing aid and to apply this characteristics to fitting curve.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.219-229
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• 2017

The study was conducted to find out lexical complexity and syntactic complexity for Korean learners by telling stories to see pictures. The results were as follows. First, there was no meaningful difference according to nationality. Second, we checked the differences on lexical complexity and syntactic complexity according to Korean studying period, only number of difference words showed meaningful difference among lexical complexity sub variables, but there was no difference among syntactic complexity sub variables. Third, we also checked correlation among staying period of Korea, Korean studying period, and other language related variables. It showed meaningful correlation staying period in Korea and other language related variable except Korean studying period and TTR. The directions for teaching Korean learners were suggested on the point of converge view according to results.

• MALSORI
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• no.6
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• pp.4-12
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• 1983

이 논문은 음향 분석기를 이용하여 한국어의 단순모음 8개를 음향 음성학적으로 분석하고 그 결과를, 이 현복의 1971년 논문 "현대 서울말의 모음 음가"에서 기분 모음을 기준으로 하여 기술한 단순 모음의 소리값과 비교하는 데어 목적이 있다. 특히, 한국어의 모음 1)길고 세게 날 때, 2)짧고 세게 날 때, 그리고 3) 여리게 날 때의 세가지 환경에 따라 변이음의 음가가 달리 나타난다는 이 현복의 이론을 음향 음성학적으로 확인해 보는 것이 연구를 하는 주요 관심사이다. 이 실험에 사용된 자료는 위에 말한 이 현복의 논문과 "한국어 음성학"(김선기, 1937, 1971; 영문)에 제시된 낱말로 이루어져 있으며, 이를 스웨덴에 유학중인 지 민제가 자신의 목소리로 직접 녹음하여 위메오 대한 음성학과의 음향 음성학 실험실에서 음향분석기로 분석한 다음, 각 모음의 제1 및 제2포인트를 측정하여 리를 토대로 음향도를 만들었다. 이 실험 결과는 다음과 같이 요약할 수 있다. : 1)그림 2,3과 포먼트 표에서 보인 바와 같이, 모음 /이, 에, 오, 으/는 각각 이 현복의 주장대로 환경에 따라 세 개의 분명히 다른 음가를 나타내고 있다. 2) 한편 모음 /애, 아, 우, 어/는 모음의 길이에 따라 다만 두 종류의 음가 변동이 나타날 뿐이며 강세의 유무에 따른 음가 차이는 드러나지 않았다. 3) 이 현복의 주장대로 모음 /에/와 /애/mss 음가의 차이가 크지 않으므로 음운 대립이 무디어질 수 있음을 이번 실험 결과로 확인 하였다. 특히 강세가 없는 /에/는 강세가 있는 /애/와 소리값이 거의 같았다. 4) 이 현복은 표준말에서 /어/의 음가가 세대에 따라 다르며, 안정된 세대의 말씨에서는 /어:/가 /어/에 비해 높고 중앙화한 소리값을 지닌다는 주장을 하였다. 그러나 이 실험 연구에서는 녹음한 이가 젊은 세대이어서 인지 그러한 현상이 나타나지 않았고, 다만 /어:/는 /어/보다 높이만이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 5) 이번 실험 연구에서 모음의 소리값이 장단과 강세에 따라 달라진다는 이 현복의 주장이 대체로 증명된 셈이나, 종합적이고 확고한 결론을 내리려면 좀 더 광범한 실험 연구가 필요하다고 본다. 특히 안정된 세대의 말씨를 직접 녹음하여 음향 음성학적으로 분석함이 필요하다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.219-228
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• 2022

In this study, to improve educational motivation and learning outcomes, a mobile app using game elements was developed, and the effect of its application in rebar work education was analyzed. Using the 4F(Figure out-Focus-Fun design-Finalize) process, which is a game development model, a mobile learning app for rebar work was developed that considers the characteristics of college students familiar with smartphone use, and the app was developed in a manner that utilizes game mechanics such as learning missions and points to stimulate a learner's interest and improve educational motivation. The results show that the proposed app for rebar work is positively evaluated in terms of interface style, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, attitude toward using, and intention to use. Therefore, it can be concluded that using the learning game app for rebar work in classes can contribute to improving a learner's performance in various aspects.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.134-140
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to investigate the directives and Wh-words in the directives from elementary 2nd, 4th and 6th grade Korean textbooks. After entering all directives into Microsoft Office Excel, directives with Wh-words were separated. The analysis program, Natmal, was used for the analysis of the directives and Wh-words. The criteria from previous studies were also applied for this analysis process. As a result of the study, there are a lot of nouns and verbs in directives. They were consisted of sentences with an average of 6.9 Eojeol. There were a total of 11 types of Wh-words and 'Mueot(what), Eotteon(which), eotteohge(how)' appeared most frequently in all grades. For question types, both grades had more inferential questions than literal information questions. This results were expected to be used as basic data for language interventions with school aged children who have language disorders.

• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-18
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• 2017

The relationships between the ability to understand changes in meaning depending on the prosody of spoken words and the ability to perceive pitch and melodic contour in cochlear implants (CI) recipients were examined. Fifteen postlingual CI recipients were measured in terms of speech prosody perception, speech perception, pitch discrimination (PD), and melody contour identification (MCI). The speech prosody perception test consists of words with positive (PW) and neutral meaning (NW). Participants were asked to identify the meaning of words depending on the conditions of positive and negative prosody. The MCI consists of subtests 1 and 2 with different chance levels to choose. Then, the relationships between speech prosody perception, speech perception, PD, and MCI performance were analyzed. There was a significant difference in identifying the meaning of words expressed in a different prosody between the PW and NW conditions. Speech prosody perception showed a significant correlation with MCI 1 while there was no significant relationship with speech perception. Although speech perception may be possible after CI, limited spoken word comprehension due to decreased sensitivity for prosodic changes may persist in CI recipients. In addition, there was a limitation in perception of melodic contour change compared to pitch discrimination, which is related to speech prosody perception.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.274-281
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• 2020

N-gram analysis casts a new look at the n-word cluster in use different from the previously known idioms. It analyzes a corpus of English textbooks for frequently occurring n consecutive words mechanically using a concordance software, which is different from the previously known idioms. The current paper aims at extracting and comparing 4-gram words clusters between South Korean high school English textbooks and its North Korean counterpart. The classification criteria includes number of tokens and types between the two across oral and written languages in the textbooks. The criteria also use the grammatical categories and functional categories to classify and compare the 4-gram words clusters. The grammatical categories include noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, partial clauses and others. The functional categories include deictic function, text organizers, stance and others. The findings are: South Korean high school English textbook contains more tokens and types in both oral and written languages. Verb phrase and partial clause 4-grams are grammatically most frequently encountered categories across both South and North Korean high school English textbooks. Stance is most dominant functional category in both South and North Korean English textbooks.