• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.371-380
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• 2017

This paper aims to explore a comparative instructional effects among meaning-based communicative language teaching, input-enhanced FnF instruction and output-enhanced FnF instruction in order to optimize the teaching methods of target grammar and vocabulary. The experiment selected three homogeneous groups of 30 students in each group for the comparison: One comparative group with communicative language teaching, one input-enhanced FnF group and another output-enhanced FnF group. The result indicates that the input-enhanced group outperformed the comparative group in the grammar test with statistical significance and the output-enhanced group overweighted the comparative group in the vocabulary test. However, no significant statistical difference was found between the input-enhanced group and the output-enhanced group. The conclusion from the result could bear the following pedagogical implication: The general English education must use the eclectic method of adopting communicative language teaching with FnF of input-enhanced target grammar and output-enhanced target vocabulary to supplement the students with the basic vocabulary and grammar.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.132-139
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• 2021

This corpus-driven research expounded the compilation of the most frequently occurring academic words in the domain of syntax and compared the extracted wordlist with Academic Word List(AWL) of Coxhead(2000) and General Service List(GSL) of West(1953) to examine their distribution and coverage within the syntax corpus. A specialized 546,074 token corpus, composed of widely used must-read syntax textbooks for English education majors, was loaded into and analyzed with AntWordProfiler 1.4.1. Under the parameter of lexical frequency, the analysis identified 288(50.5%) AWL word forms, appeared 16 times or more, as well as 218(38.2%) AWL items, occurred not exceeding 15 times. The analysis also indicated that the coverage of AWL and GSL accounted for 9.19% and 78.92% respectively and the combination of GSL and AWL amounted to 88.11% of all tokens. Given that AWL can be instrumental in serving broad disciplinary needs, this study highlighted the necessity to compile the domain-specific AWL as a lexical repertoire to promote academic literacy and competence.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.5 s.43
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• pp.75-86
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• 2006

Target word selection is one of the most important and difficult tasks in English-Korean Machine Translation. It effects on the translation accuracy of machine translation systems. In this paper, we present a new approach to select Korean target word for an English noun with translation ambiguities using multiple knowledge such as verb frame patterns, sense vectors based on collocations, statistical Korean local context information and co-occurring POS information. Verb frame patterns constructed with dictionary and corpus play an important role in resolving the sparseness problem of collocation data. Sense vectors are a set of collocation data when an English word having target selection ambiguities is to be translated to specific Korean target word. Statistical Korean local context Information is an N-gram information generated using Korean corpus. The co-occurring POS information is a statistically significant POS clue which appears with ambiguous word. The experiment showed promising results for diverse sentences from web documents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.203-207
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 한국사람이 모국어인 한국어 단어를 산출할 때와 외국어인 영어 단어를 산출할 때 관여하는 대뇌 영역을 fMRI 를 통해 조사하였다. 또한, 단일 언어를 산출할 때와 두 언어를 수시로 바꾸어서 인출할 때 관련되는 뇌 영역이 어디인지를 조사하였다. 실험에 참가한 피험자는 외국어를 공식적인 교육을 통해 12 세 근처에서 배우기 시작한 대학생이었다. 흔히 분류하는 방식으로 late learner로 구분되는 학생들이었다. 한 피험자가 세 종류의 실험 모두에 참여하였다. 피험자의 실험과제는 그림을 보고 그림에 해당되는 이름을 인출하여 말하는 과제였다. 실험 1, 2, 3 모두에서 사건관련 fMRI(event-related fMRI) 기법을 사용하였다. 실험 1에서는 그림을 보고 그림 이름에 해당되는 한국어 어휘와 외래어 어휘를 산출하게 하였다. 언어관련 뇌영역인 Wernicke 영역, Broca 영역, SMA 영역, SMG 영역 등에서 유의미한 활성화가 있었다. 실험 2 에서는 실험 1 에서 사용하지 않았던 그림을 사용하여 그림의 영어 이름과 외래어 이름을 인출하게 하였다. 외국어인 영어 단어를 산출할 때에도 모국어 단어를 산출할 때와 유사한 영역이 활성화되었다. 특히 외래어 산출 시에는 뇌 활성화 영역이 모국어와 영어 단어 산출할 때와 모국어 산출할 때 활성화되는 공통 영역이 활성화되었다. 모국어 산출과 영어 단어 산출의 차이점은 외국어 산출 시에 활성화 영역이 전반적으로 더 컸다는 것과 외국어 단어 산출 시에 Broca 영역보다 조금 밑쪽에서 그리고 모국어 단어 산출시에는 전전두엽 영역에서 더 많은 활성화가 있었다. 실험 3 에서도 실험 1 과 실험 2 에 사용하지 않았던 그림을 사용하였다. 실험 3 의 특이한 결과는 언어 switching 이 있는 경우에 전통적인 언어 영역 활성화 외에 전전두엽의 활성화가 컸다는 것이다. 아마도 언어를 바꾸어 가면서 단어를 산출하는 것이 전전두엽의 정보선택과정에 많은 영향을 주었던 것으로 해석된다. 전체적으로 어휘 산출시에 모국어 어휘, 외국어 어휘, 외래어 등을 산출할 때 공통되는 언어 영역과 언어 특성적 영역이 활성화된다고 결론지을 수 있을 것 같다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.679-687
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• 2020

The present study aims to investigate lexical coverage of BNC (British National Corpus) word lists and 2015 Basic Vocabulary of Ministry of Education in 2020 EBS-linked textbooks and CSAT. For the data analysis, AntWordProfiler was used to find lexical coverage and frequency. The findings showed that Students can understand 95% of the tokens with a vocabulary of BNC 3,000 and 4,000 word-families in 2020 EBS-linked listening and reading books respectively. 98% can be understood with 4,000 word-families in the EBS-linked listening book while the same lexical coverage can be covered with 8,000 word-families in the EBS-linked reading textbook. By the way, 95% of the tokens can be understood with 2,000 and 4,000 word-families in 2020 CSAT listening and reading tests respectively, while 98% requires 4,000 and 7,000 word-families in the 2020 listening and reading tests respectively. In summary, students should understand more words in 2020 EBS-linked textbooks than in 2020 CSAT tests confirming Kim's (2016) findings. In summary, students should understand more words in 2020 EBS-linked textbooks than in 2020 CSAT tests.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.433-438
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• 2021

This study investigates the relationship between lexical sophistication features and English proficiency for Korean college students. Essays from the ICNALE(International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English) corpus were analyzed, using TAALES program. In order to examine whether or not there are statistically significant differences in lexical sophistication features across three groups, MANOVA was conducted. Results showed that the lexical sophistication features were significantly affected by English proficiency level. Essays written by Korean students with different English proficiency levels can be differentiated in terms of various lexical sophistication features including content words frequency, content words familiarity, lexical decision mean reaction time function words, hypernymy verbs, word naming response time function words, age of acquisition content words.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.191-203
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• 2015

In foreign language, vocabulary is the most essential and fundamental elements. Traditional language learning methods that are to understand and to memorize the English contents can only be obvious limitations. In this paper, we proposed the speaking-centered learning methods based on cognitive strategies and speech recognition considering the learner characteristics. We have designed and implemented the cognitive strategy-based speaking training system for acquisition elementary English vocabulary. We were divided into control group and the experimental group and applied to the system to analyze the learning effect. The result of Analysis, the proposed system is increased motivation and achievement of learners. In addition, the proposed system is improved an academic learning participation, Project accomplish, self-interesting and leadership skills. Through this study, we expect that students improve the ability of practical skills in speaking English.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.227-232
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• 2020

본 논문은 의미역 주석(Semantic Role Labeling) 자원인 FrameNet을 준구어 말뭉치인 드라마 대본에 주석하는 과정과 주석 결과에 대해 서술한다. 본 논문에서는 프레임 - 프레임 논항 구조의 주석 범위를 한 문장에서 여러 발화로 이루어진 장면 (Scene) 단위의 대본으로 확장하여 문장 내에서 생략된 프레임 논항(Null-Instantiated Frame Elements)을 장면 단위 대본 내의 다른 발화에서 복원하였다. 본 논문은 프레임 자동 분석기를 통해 동일한 드라마의 한국어, 영어 대본에 FrameNet 주석을 한 드라마 대본을 선발된 주석자에 의해 대상 어휘 적합성 평가, 프레임 적합성 평가, 생략된 프레임 논항 복원을 실시하고, 자동 주석된 대본과 주석자 작업 후의 대본 결과를 비교한 결과와 예시를 제시한다. 주석자가 자동 주석된 대본 중 총 2,641개 주석 (한국어 1,200개, 영어 1,461개)에 대하여 대상 어휘 적합성 평가를 실시하여 한국어 190개 (15.83%), 영어 226개 (15.47%)의 부적합 대상 어휘를 삭제하였다. 프레임 적합성 평가에서는 대상 어휘에 자동 주석된 프레임의 적합성을 평가하여 한국어 622개 (61.68%), 영어 473개 (38.22%)의 어휘에 대하여 새로운 프레임을 부여하였다. 생략된 프레임 논항을 복원한 결과 작업된 평균 프레임 논항 개수가 한국어 0.780개에서 2.519개, 영어 1.290개에서 2.253개로 증가하였다.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.157-176
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• 2007

Based on the consensus that vocabulary plays an essential role in improving reading ability, the present study investigates the effects of two different methods of English vocabulary instruction - the traditional wordlist-based vocabulary instruction (G1) and the collocation-based vocabulary instruction (G2) - on improving English reading ability for high school learners. First, the results of the collocation test revealed that G1 and G2 groups attained similar mean scores on the pretests; however, G2 significantly outperformed G1 on the post-test administered at the end of the learning activity. The results proved that students who learned vocabulary in a collocation-oriented setting had better retention through the lexical-chunking achieved by the collection method. Second, in terms of reading comprehension achieved on nationwide academic trial tests, the result was, after considering more tests, that G2 gained a significantly higher mean score on the third and fourth than G1 did, although the two groups yielded a similar mean score on the first and second test. The implication of these results is that collocation-based vocabulary activities had a more significant influence on reading skills than wordlist-oriented ones.

• Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.611-635
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• 2003

The main purpose of this study is to find out what teaching method is more effective than others through experiments for college students. Therefore, this study aims to review various effective methods of vocabulary teaching. According to the results of the experiments, the methods of teaching vocabulary through the process of word formation and meaningful words led to the high scores at the posttest regardless of the scores gained by the individual subjects at the pretest. However, the method of teaching vocabulary through context showed that the improved scores at the posttest generally reflected the individual differences of the scores at the pretest. That is, in the latter, it is recognizable that the subjects who achieved the high scores at the pretest did very well at the posttest as well. In conclusion, judging from the mean rate of improvement, the method of teaching vocabulary through word formation seems to be more effective than that of teaching vocabulary through meaningful words and context.