• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.159-180
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• 2007

The present study proposes a set of activities of teaching English reading through English newspapers to narrow the gap between the English required in authentic situation and the one taught in schools. Newspapers can provide students with opportunities to review what they have studied in the classes. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to investigate how extra-curricular activities using English newspapers have an influence on the development of the three low-achieving high school students' English reading ability. The five-month study yielded that the activities using English newspapers exerted positive effects on the students' interest in English and their English scores. It suggests that using English newspapers as teaching materials may be a desirable way both to motivate students to study English harder and to develop their English reading ability.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.225-231
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• 2020

This study aims to examine the efficacy of online lectures conducted by most universities in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Furthermore, this study analyzes students' opinions regarding online lectures, thereby assessing the possible direction that future online lectures could take. This study's results indicate that online lectures can have a positive effect on learners' reading comprehension. Also, student satisfaction with online lectures was found to be quite high. Among the reasons students cited for favoring the online format were: (1) the fun presentation of class information; (2) the diversity of subjects covered; and (3) the ease of using the Internet. Among the improvements made for enhancing online lectures were technical enhancements (such as fixing attendance check authentication errors) and stabilizing the playback of lecture videos. By way of concluding, this study claims that professors who are familiar with giving lectures in person should come to recognize that online lectures are not simply another option, but are essential for the future. As such, the academic community must focus on developing online content as a way to further higher education's development in meeting the academic demands of both the present and the future.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.183-189
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of mobile phone use on university students' English reading achievement and consider the value and effectiveness of mobile phones as a learning tool. The study's subjects were students from a university in Seoul, who were divided into an experimental group (n=37) and a control group (n=43). The experimental group used various mobile phone functions-such as searching, recording, taking photos, using mobile apps, and community uploads-in reading class. The control group, on the other hand, focused on students' presentations and the professor's explanations. Two achievement tests and an open-ended questionnaire were administered. The results revealed that the experimental group scored higher than the control group, which showed a significant difference. In addition, the positive impacts of mobile phone use as reported in the questionnaire were interest and motivation, self-directed learning, and continuous learning beyond time and space. In order to foster efficient second language teaching and learning, learners and also teachers must be aware of the potential value of mobile phones as a learning tool. To encourage more active mobile phone use in the classroom, diverse and interesting class activities using mobile phones should be developed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.477-484
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to research middle school student's reading problem and to suggest how to improve their reading competence through the use of the NIE. For this research, we proposed three research questions of study as below. First, what difference is there in English reading competence between experimental and control group? Second, what difference is there in the English reading competence according to English proficiency? Third, what are the effects of interest and satisfaction through NIE? The subject of a sample was 34 experimental group and 36 control group, total 70 eighth graders in Kwangju. The experimental group had been taught through NIE for 10 weeks. Grammar Translation Method was applied while teaching English to the control group. The data analyzing method was t-test through the statistics program SPSS12.0. Based on the result of this study, NIE approach was effective in improving the students' reading competence. Most of the students who were taught reading by NIE responded that they had more interest and satisfaction in the reading lesson.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.291-311
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to investigate the English reading strategies of Korean secondary EFL learners by their personality types. The study was conducted with 112 middle school students and 100 high school students in Korea. The instrument used for personality measurement was the MBTI test. A reading strategy questionnaire was used to see how frequently each reading strategy was used while students read passages in English. The collected data was analyzed using t-test and two-way ANOVA to see the differences between high school and middle school students in terms of personality types. The results of the study demonstrated that there were significant differences in strategies used by the two groups of students and high school students used more reading strategies than middle school students. It was also found that the students exhibited some differences in reading strategy use depending on their personality types, especially between the N(Intuition) and S(Sensing) types. For example, students with N(Intuition) types used more vocabulary-comprehension, guessing, and metacogntive strategies than S(Sensing) types. Pedagogical implications and suggestions for classroom English teachers are discussed based on the results of the current study.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.167-168
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• 2016

수업시간에 강의 듣고, 집에서 숙제를 하는 방식은 더 이상 학습자의 학습동기를 이끌지 못하고, 효과적인 수업이 이루어 질 수 없다. 수업시간에는 학생들의 적극적 상호작용이, 집에서는 인터넷 환경을 통한 핵심 강의식 내용을 미리 듣고 수업 활동에 임하는 플립러닝에 대한 영어과 수업의 도입이 필요하나 이에 대한 연구가 충분하지 않은 실정이다. 이에, 본 연구를 통해 영어수업(독해중심)에서의 플립러닝 활용 수업 모형을 개발하고, 이를 현장에 적용 후 수정 보완하여 대학 영어수업에서의 플립러닝 정착 및 발전을 도모한다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2023.10a
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• pp.333-335
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• 2023

최근 글을 이해하고 답을 추론하는 연구들이 많이 이루어지고 있으며, 대표적으로 기계 독해 연구가 존재한다. 기계 독해와 관련하여 다양한 데이터셋이 공개되어 있지만, 과거에서부터 현재까지 사람의 영어 능력 평가를 위해 많이 사용되고 있는 토익에 대해서는 공식적으로 공개된 데이터셋도 거의 존재하지 않으며, 이를 위한 연구 또한 활발히 진행되고 있지 않다. 이에 본 연구에서는 현재와 같이 데이터가 부족한 상황에서 기계 독해 모델의 성능을 향상시키기 위한 데이터 증강 기법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안하는 방법은 WordNet을 이용하여 유의어 및 반의어를 기반으로 굉장히 간단하면서도 효율적으로 실제 토익 문제와 유사하게 데이터를 증강하는 것이며, 실험을 통해 해당 방법의 유의미함을 확인하였다. 우리는 본 연구를 통해 토익에 대한 데이터 부족 문제를 해소하고, 사람 수준의 우수한 성능을 얻을 수 있도록 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.373-380
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Korean EFL university students acquire an understanding of English tenses. To research this, we proposed two research questions of study as below. Firstly, what difference is there in English tense acquisition between an experimental group and a control group? Secondly, what difference is there in the English tense acquisition according to English proficiency? The subject of a sample survey was a 39 student experimental group and a 38 student control group, total 77 students, who take English courses as a required subject at 'C' university in Gwangju. The data needed for this study was obtained by the questionnaires with 40 questions about the English tense. The data analyzing method was t-test through the statistics program SPSS 12.0. There was a significant difference between the experimental group's tense acquisition ability and the control group's, even though low group showed no significant improvement in their tense acquisition ability. Studying English tense through reading led the students to be present in classes with interests, so the experimental group showed more academic accomplishments than the control group.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.183-206
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether using English newspapers as supplementary teaching materials for the present textbook could increase students' English reading ability, interest in class and their willingness to take an active part in activities. Schools in rural areas, compared to urban schools, did not have the appropriate resources to teach students effectively. Understanding the disadvantages of the students in rural areas, one idea was to use newspapers to inspire the students to reach outside their local community and incorporate new styles of English and cultural aspects into their lives. The participants were 2nd grade high school students in the rural area. The experimental group received reading lessons with the textbook and English newspapers. They were also encouraged to make their own portfolios. The control group received reading lessons with the textbook and other supplementary materials. Before and after the experiment, reading comprehension tests as well as the questionnaires of interest and self-directed learning were administered. The results of this study were as follows: First, students' English reading ability was significantly improved in the experimental class using English newspapers. Second, students' interest and self-directed learning were positively increased in the same class above.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.439-443
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• 2021

기계 독해는 단락과 질의가 주어졌을 때 단락 내 정답을 찾는 자연어 처리 태스크이다. 최근 벤치마킹 데이터셋에서 사전학습 언어모델을 기반으로 빠른 발전을 보이며 특정 데이터셋에서 인간의 성능을 뛰어넘는 성과를 거두고 있다. 그러나 이는 단락 내 범위(span)에서 추출된 정보에 관한 것으로, 실제 연산을 요구하는 질의에 대한 응답에는 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 범위 내에서 응답이 가능할 뿐만이 아니라, 연산에 관한 이산 추론을 요구하는 단락 및 질의에 대해서도 응답이 가능한 기계 독해 모델의 효과성을 검증하고자 한다. 이를 위해 영어 DROP (Discrete Reasoning Over the content of Paragraphs, DROP) 데이터셋으로부터 1,794개의 질의응답 쌍을 Google Translator API v2를 사용하여 한국어로 번역 및 정제하여 KoDROP (Korean DROP, KoDROP) 데이터셋을 구축하였다. 단락 및 질의를 참조하여 연산을 수행하기 위한 의미 태그를 한국어 KoBERT 및 KoELECTRA에 접목하여, 숫자 인식이 가능한 KoNABERT, KoNAELECTRA 모델을 생성하였다. 실험 결과, KoDROP 데이터셋은 기존 기계 독해 데이터셋과 비교하여 단락에 대한 더욱 포괄적인 이해와 연산 정보를 요구하였으며, 가장 높은 성능을 기록한 KoNAELECTRA는 KoBERT과 비교하여 F1, EM에서 모두 19.20의 월등한 성능 향상을 보였다.