• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.519-524
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• 2021

Recently, the fourth industrial revolution has become an area of interest to many countries, mainly in major advanced countries. Artificial intelligence technology, the core technology of the fourth industrial revolution, is developing in a form of convergence in various fields and has a lot of influence on the edutech field to change education innovatively. This paper builds an experimental environment using the DTW speech recognition algorithm and deep learning on various native and non-native data. Furthermore, through comparisons with CNN algorithms, we study non-native speakers to correct them with similar pronunciation to native speakers by measuring the similarity of English pronunciation.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.409-417
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• 2019

Recently, English education of educational institutions is gradually invigorated as the importance of English education for preschooler is increasing. Role-play, in particular, is known as an effective way to learn English for children because it promotes children's interest in language and naturally encounters English-speaking culture. Therefore, in this paper, we tried to find out how to effectively use UCC in role-playing for English education for preschoolers. First of all, questionnaires for pre and post-test were conducted for preschoolers. The results are analyzed by SPSS to find out children's understanding of UCC, interest in English, interest in role-playing, and interest in acting. As a result of the analysis, most children knew UCC well and showed strong interest in watching and producing UCC. Also, the more interested in English and role-playing, the more they wanted to show more advanced English and acting through the feedback of the contents they produced. Therefore, even in preschool children's English education, the development of language and acting can be shown by producing UCC through role-playing under the teacher's control and receiving feedback on it. The results of this study are expected to be effectively used when planning English education through role-playing in daycare centers or kindergartens.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.161-168
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• 2010

In the past, Korean English language learners focused on knowledge of grammatical structures. Thus Korean trained instructors, who focused on explaining the grammar structures, were seen as being preferable for teaching in EFL (English as a foreign language) classrooms. However, with the focus changed to speaking capability Koreans now desire 'fluent' English more than 'accuracy' seeing if possible (Mottos, 1997). Current study has been concerned about the issue of how non-native learners of English perceive the difference between native teachers (NTs) and non-native teachers (non-NTs) of English in the context of ELT classroom. The study explores the issues and problems the followed and how non-NTs can enhance teaching practice of speaking and listening lessons through multimedia application.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.297-304
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• 2015

Importance and necessity is enlarged due to globalization. So, English education is diverse and recently applies AR(Augmented Reality) technology to offer immersion and interest. Contents in this paper are Mobile AR contents for training infant English cognition. Our system displays teaching aid objects into 3D models, lets infants listen to English conversation and teaches them everyday English like a play. Considering infants that like games, this system adds an English game about each object of teach aids. To attract infants and parents interest persistingly, We give them immersion and interest by suggesting a different event at each step.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.35-38
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• 2015

컴퓨터 보급률의 증가로 소프트웨어에 관한 관심이 높아지게 되었고, 이는 초중등학생에게 프로그래밍을 가르치는 계기가 되었다. 하지만 대부분의 프로그래밍 언어는 영어로 구성되어 있어 영어 능력이 부족한 초중등학생이 사용하기에 부담되는 것이 사실이다. 그래서 비영어권 국가에서는 모국어로 된 프로그래밍 언어를 개발해왔다. 한국에서는 몇몇 한글 프로그래밍 언어가 개발되었지만, 현재까지 사용되고 있는 언어가 거의 없다. 또한, 객체 지향을 지원하는 한글 프로그래밍 언어가 거의 없다. 우리는 프로그래밍을 처음 배우는 초보자들이 영어를 모르더라도 객체 지향 개념을 쉽게 사용할 수 있도록 도와주는 한글 프로그래밍 언어 새싹을 개발하였다. 새싹을 통해 객체 지향 개념을 쉽게 습득함으로써 나중에 영어로 된 프로그래밍 언어를 배워야 할 때에서 더 쉽게 배울 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.99-102
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• 2008

현재 우리나라에서는 영어에 대한 중요성과 관심이 점점 커지고 있으며, 영어 능력을 평가하는 다양한 시험이 시행 중에 있다. 이런 시험들을 준비하기 위해 많은 문제들은 웹 상에서 손쉽게 구할 수 있는 반면에, 획득한 문제에 대한 정답을 원하는 순간에 구하는 것은 쉽지 않아 영어 문제를 푼 후에 정답을 확인할 수 없는 경우가 많다. 이런 불편함을 줄이기 위해 본 논문은 영어 문제의 정답을 추천해 주는 시스템에 대해서 논의한다. 단문 빈칸 채우기 형식의 문제에 대해서 해당 문제의 문장의 의미에 대한 이해없이도 특정 어휘의 쓰임새나 빈칸 주변의 문맥 정보, 단어들 간의 공기빈도 정보를 이용하여 문제의 정답을 추천한다. 시스템에 필요한 정보를 위한 자료를 웹 상의 수많은 영어 문서들에 기술된 표현을 이용하여 수동 지식 구축과정 없이 문제를 해결한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.440-451
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• 2013

English village in Korea is an unique model for English education and a number of English villages have been established and operated since 2004. Although educators related to English education have acknowledged English village' growth, there is not enough research on development of English village program. The purpose of this study is to develop and implement an effective task-based program in English village in Korea. 'A' English Village is chosen for analysis and Brown's[17] and Long & Crookes'[36] frameworks are adapted for developing task-based English village program. The study included seven steps for program development and explanations and activities for each step are illustrated in detail. Finally, operational considerations for English village program are discussed and some implications of this study will be able to contribute to task-based language teaching for young learners.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.14-24
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to understand deeply the current circumstances of parents who took part in child-English Education through semantic analysis about 11 mothers' and their children's experiences in the individual depth interviews and group interviews. The obtained results of this study were as follows: First, mothers started their children's English education on the basis of the belief that English ability is an essential asset in the era of globalization, their experiences and the scheduled situation. Also they positively recognized the effect of English education when they could feel their children's learning improvements. Second, participants had experienced their children's education stress and economic burden. Third, participants had personal, social level desires for their children's proper English education. Through this study, it revealed the critical introspection about mothers' experiences and desires in child-English Education. And it alluded to necessity about continuous attention and debate in child-English Education.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.22-27
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• 2010

최근 국가적 차원에서 영어교육에 대한 많은 투자가 이루어지고 있으나 기존의 주입식, 암기식 영어 교육은 회화 실력 향상에 큰 도움을 주지 못하였다. 컴퓨터를 이용한 영어교육 또한 많은 관심을 얻고 있으나 실제 의사소통을 위한 회화 학습에 대한 고려는 깊지 않으며, 주어진 흐름의 대본을 따라 단순히 읽고 반복하는 수준의 시스템만 존재하고 있다. 이러한 학습형태는 흥미 유발 동기가 약하여 사용자로 하여금 장기간 꾸준히 학습하게 만들지 못한다는 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제점에 대하여 제2언어 습득 이론에 바탕을 둔 자연어 처리 기반 몰입 환경 영어 교육 시스템을 제안한다. 이는 도메인 확장성이 뛰어난 예제 기반 대화 시스템을 3 차원 가상공간과 결합한 시스템으로 자연스러운 대화를 통한 외국어 회화 연습을 하는 과정에서 학습자의 발화 오류를 분석하고 교육적 피드백을 제공한다. 또한 현실과 비슷한 몰입 환경에서 체험형 기술을 통해 자발적인 학습을 유도하고 집중력, 기억력을 획기적으로 높이고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 영어교육 시스템의 이론적 배경, 예제 기반 대화관리, 시스템 구성요소와 동작에 대하여 중점적으로 기술하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.256-263
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• 2016

Soo-Yeoun Kim & Ji-Eun Kim 2016. A Study on ESP Skating English Education Based on Job Analysis. This study aims to provide skating ESP(English for Specific Purposes) education model for skating instructors in Korea. For this purpose, a total of twenty-seven professional skating instructors were surveyed according to a questionnaire, which asked about their English skills and perspective of the importance of English study and English skating class. The main results are as follows: most skating instructors' confidence in their English is low; majority of them answered that English study is needed for skating instructors; a majority of them want English teaching that focused on speaking and teaching activities. After that, skating instructors' jobs were analyzed using the DACUM(Developing A Curriculum Method). A DACUM committee extracted the duties and tasks which require English education and conducted a survey that targeted skating instructors. When interpreting the study on ESP Skating English Education based on job analysis, it was evident that the English language would be essential for enabling effective communication with judges during national sports competitions, information exchange with foreign skaters, and for technical skating instructions. (Kookmin University, Catholic Kwandong University)