• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.640-645
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• 2011

The purpose of this article is to investigate ways of making the cloze test more valid as an English proficiency test so that it can provide a better format for the cloze test especially to the non-native teachers in EFL environments. This investigation identifies ways of validity in terms of materials, deletion rates, item characteristics and scoring methods used in cloze tests. An increase in test validity can be accomplished by knowing how the four factors affect the cloze test results and how to manipulate them. Practical suggestions are provided for teachers to design a cloze test. Teachers can develop the reliability and validity of cloze tests by manipulating the four factors. In seeking a more valid and reliable cloze format, this research gives some suggestions based on a literature review. We can conclude that a cloze test can be valid only when teachers are aware of the factors which affect the test result and the ways to handle the factors to make the test appropriate for their test purposes.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.51-59
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• 2019

In the foreign language learning theory, self-regulated learning, subject interest, learning flow, and self-efficacy have been studied as major constructs. With the help of researches regarding these constructs, a research model was set up and the contents were analyzed through SEM analysis in order to grasp the influence of these constructs on each other. Through data collected from middle school students in Gyeongnam, the analysis result shows as follows. First, the subject interest has a positive influence on learning flow. Second, the subject interest has a positive influence on self-efficacy as well as self regulated learning. Third, learning flow has a positive effect on self-efficacy. Fourth, self regulated learning has a positive influence on self-efficacy. Fifth, self-regulated learning has a positive influence on learning flow. As is shown in the analysis, in case of English education, subject specific interest brings forth learning flow and enhances self-efficacy as well as self-regulated learning thus, leading to academic achievements.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.393-399
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• 2012

New and creative skills must be developed, and adapted into a lesson, to motivate learners to acquire a second language easily and enjoyment, Multimedia tools which are of interest to learners, such as; smart phones, computers, and notebooks with wireless internet compatability, will provide learners opportunities to study, and do their work practically anywhere and anytime. Recently, podcasts, which are a type of digital media, consisting of a series of audio episodes or video files, subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication, or streamed online to a computer or mobile device, are used to facilitate ESL (English as a Second Language) learning. Development of a variety of teaching methods, using multimedia tools, is needed. There are advantages and disadvantages to using a variety of multimedia tools. The current research aims to study its characteristics and application, in order to maximize their effective use, in English education. The current study suggests a ubiquitous learning environment using multimedia content tools, internet media, video teleconferencing, cyber-learning, and one-to-one videos used in conjunction with, or as a digital textbook for the English lesson. This study also investigates future educational changes, using state-of-the-art equipment for the self-learning experience, and will present a new direction in English education, through a variety of instructional devices and a marginalized class system model.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.289-295
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference of learners' preference for animation movies in EFL English classes. In this study, four classes of 124 college students that participated in the English screen class employed an animation, Alice in Wonderland. This study examined the different activities of three categories of pre-study, while-study, and post-study. First, on the analysis of studying activities of 15 items, the results showed meaningful differences depending on the students' gender. That is, female students were more interested in mostly all of the activities, while male students' interests were skewed to some post-study activities. Second, comparing the differences of studying interest among the three groups, the low group is more concerned with the pre-study activities, while the higher group is generally interested in the while studying and post-study activities. Third, on the analysis of correlation between the three level groups and activities, the results indicated meaningful differences in some activities. In summary, based on the results of this research, it is necessary to consider the learners' variables and focus on the learners in the English screen class. Further, teachers should apply these results to the management of their screen class and to the development of teaching materials.

• Korean Journal of Comparative Education
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.97-121
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• 2018

The numbers of Korean immigrants and students in the United States are steadily increasing, but there have been very few studies of their second language literacy development (Cole, Maddox, Lim, & Notari-Syverson, 2002; Scarcellar & Chin, 1993; Shin, 1994; Skilton-Sylvester, 2001; Yu, 1994). Nor do the very few studies explore the inseparable relationship between Korean literacy and English literacy within a cultural context. This study aims to compare their views on Korean writing with those on English writing to see trace the multiliteracy development of Korean learners of English in the United States. I conducted in-depth oral interviews with Korean immigrants and students of various ages. They were asked to state everything they could remember about what they have learned to write and read in their native language and in their second language across their lifetimes, focusing particularly on the institutions they attended, materials they used, people involved in their learning, and their motivations for writing. The results reveal that the participants developed a view of writing specific to the Korean context and after they moved to the United States, they struggled to readjust the values and meanings they had had for Korean literacy to the second language context. The results of this study suggest future multiliteracy studies are needed to explore multiliteracy development in terms of the meanings and values language learners associate with their multiliteracy and help educational institutions and communities to approach second language learners' multiliteracy development as a life-long experience.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.233-239
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• 1995

기존의 이중언어정보 처리 모형을 기억 모형과 상호 작용 모형으로 나누고 기억모형은 다시 발달적 관점을 지닌 모형과 개념 표상과의 관계 구조에 촛점을 둔 모형으로 분류하여 개관하였다. 이중 언어 정보 처리 과정에 관한 이상적인 모형은 심성 어휘집의 관계 구조. 언어이해와 산출의 자동성, 두 언어 체계간의 작용에 관하여 설명할 수 있어야 한다. 이러한 관점에서 지금까지 개관된 모형을 비판하였다. 일부 모형에서는 위의 가정들을 언급하고 있으나 대부분의 모형들이 각각의 가정을 체계적으로 반영하고 있지 않았다. 비판점들을 보완하여 한국인에게 적합한 외국어 교육 프로그램을 개발하고 한국어-영어 번역시스템의 효과적인 운용과 일반적인 언어 정보 처리 기제에 대한 이해를 돕기 위한 새로운 이중 언어 모형을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.113-116
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• 2006

This research was investigate to understand how moderate bilingual subjects represent the lexicon in second language. Although most researches have focused only on high proficient bilinguals, we analysed how moderate bilinguals who have learned English mostly in school represent the prototype of verb and its inflected form of verb. Results of lexical decision task showed that moderate bilingual subjects used different mental representation depending on whether the verb have regular or irregular conjugation. With regular verbs, the identification of an inflected form was affected by both the frequency of its prototype and that of inflected form, but with irregular verbs, it is affected only by the frequency of inflected form.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.2660-2666
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• 2013

Education is important in Korea and English education takes a huge part of it. Korean Education can be divided into public and private. A number of households expend money on private education. Therefore this study examines the relationship between private education expense and the grade of college entrance examination. As results, there is a positive effect between them and also a positive effect between the total mount of time of private education and the grade of college entrance examination.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.425-426
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 Google에서 지원하는 오픈소스인 Tesseract-OCR을 이용한 문자/음성 인식 및 번역 앱에 대해 제안한다. 최근 한국어를 포함한 외국어 인식과 번역기능을 이용한 다양한 스마트폰 앱이 개발되어 여행에 필수품으로 자리잡고 있다. 스마트폰의 카메라기능을 이용하여 촬영한 영상을 인식률을 높이도록 처리하고, Crop기능을 넣어 부분 인식기능을 지원하며, Tesseract-OCR의 train data를 보완하여 인식률을 높이고, Google 음성인식 API를 이용한 음성인식 기능을 통해 인식된 유사한 문장들을 선택하도록 하고, 이를 번역하고 보여주도록 개발하였다. 번역 기능은 번역대상 언어와 번역할 언어를 선택할 수 있고 기본적으로 영어, 한국어, 일본어, 중국어로 번역이 가능하다. 이 기능을 이용하여 차량번호 인식, 사진에 포함된 글자를 통한 검색 등 다양한 응용분야에 맞게 앱을 개발할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.245-248
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• 2010

현대 한국어 문장에는 (1) 여러 가지 부사절이 포함된 경우, (2) 길이가 긴 경우, (3) 여러 가지 기호를 포함한 경우, (4) 수와 단위 표현이 있는 경우, (5) 영어 등 외국어가 포함된 경우, (6) 혹은 (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)를 모두 포함한 경우가 많다. 따라서 현대 한국어 문장을 구문 처리하기 위해서는 전처리(preprocessing) 과정이 필수적이라고 생각한다. 전처리 과정에서는 문장 표면 분석을 수행하고 문장 분할도 수행하여 입력 문장을 구문 처리가 가능한 형태로 바꾸어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 현대 한국어 문장을 구문 처리하기 위한 표면 분석 방법과 분할 방법을 논의한다. 또한 한국어 구문을 나타내는 분할 구조 문법의 예도 제시한다.