• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.93-99
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• 2020

The Journal of Industrial Management Society in Republic of Korea. In order to explore the effect of overseas language training on the development of foreign language accuracy, this study investigates the errors in English compositions produced by 27 Korean university students who received overseas language training for 15 weeks. For data collection, students were made to take two tests, a pretest and a posttest, a semester apart. The differences in composition elements and errors between the two tests were examined and statistical analyses were performed. Results showed that while the average length of the compositions and sentences increased, the number of sentences decreased in the posttest. Also, more errors were found in the posttest where the students tried to construct more complex sentence structures. The students' ability to generate sentences were found to have improved, while their competence in using grammatical elements accurately within sentences did not see great improvement. This implies that overseas language training was not effective for aiding the development of one's grammatical accuracy of a foreign language over a 15-week period for the students.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.341-349
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• 2019

Today, art education needs education of media image production or media in the extended field. The purpose of this study is to develop the basic visual grammar and communication ability. We developed and applied the teaching plan for the interview video production as the fusion lesson. 3 classes were conducted for 30 middle school students. The results obtained through the analysis of the pre & post questions and student works are as follows. First, the students used the shot size and stable composition through the interview video production. As a result, this class was effective for the acquisition of the basic video grammar. Second, students improved their ability to ask and listen, understand and organize through interview. As a result, students were able to apply the basic video grammar through the interview video production lesson, effectively producing the interview image.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.30-43
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• 2022

In this study, elementary students' science communication competence was investigated based on the grammatical features expressed in their language-use in classroom discourse and science writings. The classes were designed to integrate the evidence-based reasoning framework and traditional learning cycle and were conducted on fifth graders in an elementary school. Eight elementary students' discourse data and writings were analyzed using lexico-grammatical resource analysis, which examined the discourse text's content and logical relations. The results revealed that the student language used in analyzing data, interpreting evidence, or constructing explanations did not precisely conform to the grammatical features in science language use. However, they provided examples of grammatical metaphors by nominalizing observed events in the classroom discourses and those of causal relations in their writings. Thus, elementary students can use science language grammatically from science language-use experiences through listening to a teacher's instructional discourses or recognizing the grammatical structures of science texts in workbooks. The opportunities in which elementary students experience the language-use model in science learning need to be offered to understand the appropriate language use in the epistemic context of evidence-based reasoning and learn literacy skills in science.

• Lingua Humanitatis
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.235-251
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• 2001

According to Chomskyan grammar, humans can generate and understand an unbounded number of grammatical sentences. Against the background of pure and idealized linguistic competence, this linguistic productivity is argued and understood. In actual utterances, however, there are many limitations of productivity but they are said to come from the general constraints on performances such as capacity of short term memory or attention. In this paper I discuss a problem raised against idealized productivity. I argue that linguistic productivity idealizes our linguistic competence too much. By separating idealized competence from the various constraints of performance, Chomskyan theorists can argue for unlimited productivity. However, the absolute distinction between grammar (pure competence) and parser (actual psychological processes) makes little sense when we explain the low acceptability(intelligibility) of center embedded sentences. Usually, the problem of center embedded sentence is explained in terms of memory shortage or other performance constraints. To explain the low acceptability, however, we need to assume specialized memory structure because the low acceptability occurs only with a specific type of syntactic pattern. 1 argue that this special memory structure should not be considered as a general performance constraint. It is a domain specific (specifically linguistic) constraints and an intrinsic part of human language processing. Recent development of Chomskyan grammar, i.e., minimalist approach seems to close the gap between pure competence and this type of specialized constraints. Chomsky's earlier approach of generative grammar focuses on end result of the generative derivation. However, economy principle (of minimalist approach) focuses on actual derivational processes. By having less mathematical or less idealized grammar, we can come closer to the actual computational processes that build syntactic structure of a sentence. In this way, we can have a more concrete picture of our linguistic competence, competence that is not detached from actual computational processes.

• 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.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.37-46
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of the use of artificial intelligence chatbots on improving Korean college students' English grammar skills. 70 undergraduate students participated in the present study. They were taking a General English class offered by a university in Korea. There were two groups in this study. Participants in the chatbot group consisted of 36 students while those in the human group were 34. Over 16 weeks, the chatbot group engaged in ten chat sessions with a chatbot while the human group had a chat with a human chat partner. Both pre- and post-tests were performed to examine changes in the participants' grammar skills over time. To compare the improvement between the two groups, an independent t-test was then run. Main findings are as follows: First, participants in both groups significantly improved their English grammar skills, indicating the beneficial effects of engaging in chat. Also, there was a statistically significant difference in the improvement between the chatbot and human groups, indicating the superior effects of the chatbot use. This study confirmed the improved grammar skills by the participants in the chatbot group, comparison with those in the human group. Based on these findings, suggestions for the future chatbot study are discussed.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2001.10d
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• pp.365-372
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• 2001

한국어나 일본어는 영어 등 서구의 언어와 비교하여 매우 발달된 경어 체계를 가지고 있다. 그러나 이러한 경어 체계는 이들 언어를 모국어로 사용하지 않는 사람들을 포함하여 모국어로 사용하는 많은 사람들까지도 정확하게 구사하기는 어려워 하는 것이 현실이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 경어 체계의 정확한 구사 능력은 적절한 어휘 선택 능력과 함께 자연스러운 의사 소통을 위한 중요한 언어 능력으로 간주되고 있다. 특히 기계번역기나 문법검사기를 구현하고자 할 때 이러한 경어 체계를 정확하게 이해하는 시스템의 구현은 한 차원 높은 자연스러운 표현을 제공하기 위하여 필수적이라고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국어의 경어 체계를 조사하고 결합범주문법을 통하여 이를 검증하는 시스템을 소개한 뒤 사극 대본을 대상으로 하여 이 시스템의 성능을 확인한다.

• 한국노년학
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.747-758
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• 2012

Detecting probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) at an early stage is crucial in slowing the progression of the disease and initiating drug therapy for more effective symptom management. Therefore, this study aimed to identify linguistic features that allow us to distinguish between patients with AD and normal controls. This paper reports on characteristics of spontaneous speech in subjects in three stages of AD (questionable, mild, moderate) compared with education- and age-matched normal controls. Four components of speech were measured in Korean native speakers with AD and normal aging: speech tempo, hesitation (measured in seconds), rate of articulation errors, and rate of grammatical errors. The results revealed significant differences in most of these speech components among the four groups, including significant differences between normal controls and the questionable AD group in the areas of speech tempo and rate of grammatical errors. Phonological? articulatory ability was preserved in questionable AD, and grammatical ability was preserved in questionable and mild AD. Subjects with moderate AD were severely impaired in grammatical ability. Prospective assessments of spontaneous speech skills using a dialogue and picture-description task are useful in detecting the subtle, spontaneous speech impairments that AD causes even in its early stage.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.51-63
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• 2020

Phonological awareness is a metalinguistic awareness ability of phonology and is known to predict language skills, such as reading and vocabulary skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between phonological awareness, phonological processing, and language skills in 4- to 6-years-old typically developing (TD) children and children with language delay (LD). A total of 32 children (TD=18, LD=15) participated in this study. They performed a phonological awareness task consisting of counting, deletion, and discrimination at syllable level. Nonword Repetition, Digit Backward, Receptive & Expressive Vocabulary Test, and Grammaticality Judgment Task were performed to analyze the correlation between phonological awareness, phonological processing, and language ability. A multiple stepwise regression analysis was performed to examine the phonological awareness subtasks that predict language ability. In the TD group, the syllable categorization task significantly predicted the receptive vocabulary and the performance of the Grammaticality Judgment Task. The LD group showed that the syllable counting task significantly predicted the receptive vocabulary, the expressive vocabulary, and the performance of the Grammaticality Judgment Task. The results showed that the phonological awareness performance was significantly different between the two groups. Further, correlation analysis and regression analysis showed different results for each group. The result of the phonological awareness performance predicted the language ability of each group significantly, suggesting the importance of the meta-linguistic awareness ability of phonology.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.839-843
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• 2003

듣고 발화하는 과정을 통해 언어를 재구성해가는 건청아동과는 달리 청각장애 아동은 청력의 상실로 인해 언어습득의 선천적 매커니즘이 작용될 수 없으며 이는 청각장애아동의 언어능력향상을 위한 웹기반언어학습이 의도적으로 구성되어야 항을 의미한다. 동작이나 상황을 나타내는 말을 동적으로 구현하여 사물 및 행동에 대한 관찰력을 증진시키고 주도적으로 상황언어를 익힐 수 있도록 유도하는 시스템 구성이 필요하며 대체사고 전략을 활용하고 얼굴표정과 반대어와 대비어를 강조해야 함이 웹기반 언어학습을 통한 청각장애아동의 문법적 오류를 감소시키는 효과적 방법임을 이 논문을 통해 제안하고자 한다.