• 영어어문교육
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2005

This paper is a qualitative and quantitative study. The main purpose of the paper is to diagnose what makes English communication difficult at the Korean EFL adult level. In order to obtain data, this study employed interviews and a questionnaire. We identified thirty three factors blocking pathways to oral communication. Qualitative analysis repeatedly revealed patterns such as lack of grammar, lack of vocabulary, lack of background knowledge, and peer pressure, but quantitative analysis yielded somewhat different results: lack of colloquial expressions, lack of vocabulary, lack of various topics, problems in the educational system, difficulty in using existing knowledge, and lack of grammar. Findings which were common to both qualitative and quantitative analyses suggest that lack of linguistic knowledge and lack of background knowledge are major barriers learners encounter in communication. On the basis of the results, suggestions are made for overcoming these barriers.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.61-85
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• 2006

The purpose of the present study is to compare Korean EFL learners' speech corpus (i.e. oral productions) with their composition corpus (i.e. written productions). Four college students participated in the study. The composition corpus was collected through a writing assignment, and the speech corpus was gathered by audio-taping their oral presentations. The results of the data analysis indicate that (i) As for error frequency, young adult low-intermediate Korean EFL learners showed high frequency in determiners (mostly, indefinite articles), vocabulary (mostly, semantic errors), and prepositions. The frequency order did not show much difference between the speech corpus and the composition corpus; and (ii) When comparing the oral productions with the written productions, there were not many differences between them in terms of the contents, a style (i.e., colloquial vs. literary), vocabulary selection, and error types and frequency. Therefore, it is assumed that the proficiency in oral presentation of EFL learners at this learning stage heavily depends on how much/how well they are able to write. In other words, EFL learners' writing and speaking skills are closely co-related. It implies that the teacher does not need to separate teaching how to speak from teaching how to write. The teacher may use the same methods or strategies to help the learners improve their English speaking and writing skills. Furthermore, it will be more effective to teach writing before speaking since they have more opportunities to write than speak in the EFL contexts.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제29권
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• pp.85-111
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• 2012

Zhong-lie-xiao-wu-yi(忠烈小五義), whose author was Shiyukun(石玉昆), is a Xia-Yi-Gong-An(俠義公案) novel in the late Qing Dynasty. This work published in 1890 when Emperor Guangxu(光緖) governed China. This work's author is Shiyukun, distribution books has an amender. The amender will be a shuoshuyiren (說書藝人). Zhong-lie-xiao-wu-yi is Zhong-lie-xia-yi-zhuan(忠烈俠義傳)'s a sequel, the story leads from Zhong-lie-xia-yi-zhuan. It is just the beginning of Zhong-lie-xiao-wu-yi is redundant. Zhong-lie-xiao-wu-yi was introduced to the late Chosun(朝鮮) Dynasty. This work was translated in Hangeul, Chosun's readers read Zhong-lie-xiao-wu-yi. This work's circulation is not clear, But this work's exciting story is interested in the readers. This work is characterized as follows: First of all, Zhong-lie-xia-yi-zhuan's charaters appear equally, the readers feels familiar. The readers like the familiar characters, because the readers read the book. The familiar characters can have a sense of speed in reading. Second, the story is continuous. Zhong-lie-xiao-wu-yi is narrated by connecting Zhong-lie-xia-yi-zhuan's story. Third, Zhong-lie-xiao-wu-yi was seeking an open ending. Classical novels prefer happy ending, this work is open ending, the expectations for the sequel became more doubled. The fourth, this work took advantage of the colloquial expressions. Zhong-lie-xiao-wu-yi is Huabenti(話本體) novel, took advantage of the spoken language. Suyu(俗語) and xiehouyu(歇後語) was represented in this work. Fifth, this work is formed a universal consensus. Ordinary people must empathize about xia-yi(俠義) and retribution, this work was well represented. Because the readers would have liked to this story.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 1997년도 7월 학술대회지
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• pp.11-25
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• 1997

This presentation will focus on building basic English Prosodic Skills which are very useful and helpful for Japanese learners of English. The focus first will be on recognizing the seven basic nuclear tones, analysing intonation structures, distinguishing intonation patterns and then on the way of improving speaking ability using sufficient verbal contents of intonation (mini-dialogue). My presentation deals mainly with some difficulties which Japanese learners of English have in the field of RP intonation, It is chiefly concerned with identifying, describing and analysing tone-group sequences. It sometimes happens that Japanese learners of English can pronounce isolated bounds correctly and read phonetic symbols sufficiently, bet have difficult problems in carrying out accurate prosodic features. The use of wrong intonation is sometimes the cause of misunderstanding of speaker's attitude, connotation and shades of meaning, etc.. However accurately students can pronounce the nuclear tone or tone-group of English, they have to learn how to connect tone-groups properly for suitable sequences in respect to meaning or implication. We are faced with the complicated theory of RF intonation on the one hand and difficult realization of it on the other. Japanese learners of English have special difficulties in employing "rising tune" and "falling + rising tune". If students are taught pitch movements by indicating dots graphically between two horizontal lines, they can easily understand the whole shape of pitch movements. In this presentation, I illuminate several tone-group sequences which are very useful for Japanese learning English intonation. Among them, four similar Pitch Patterns, such as, (1) (equation omitted)- type, (2) (equation omitted) - type, (3) (equation omitted) - type and (4) (Rising Head) (equation omitted)- type are clarified and other important tone-group sequences aye also highlighted from the point of view of teaching English as a foreign language. The intonation theory, tone marks and technical terms are, in all essentials, those of Intonation of Colloquial English by O'Connor, J. D. and Arnold, G. F., Longman, 2nd ed., 1982. The changes of tone are shown graphically between two horizontal lines representing the ordinary high and low zones of the utterance. A.C.Gimson (1981:314) : The intonation of English has been studied in greater detail and for longer than that of any other language. No definitive analysis, classifying the features of RP intonation, has yet appeared (though that presented by O'Connor and Arnold (1973) provides the most comprehensive and useful account from the foreign learner's point of view).

• 동양고전연구
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• 제33호
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• pp.413-435
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• 2008

본고의 목적은 17세기 전반기(前半期)에 쓰인 '현풍(玄風) 곽씨(郭氏) 언간(諺簡)'을 대상으로 격조사(格助詞)의 생략 양상과 기능을 분석하는 데 있다. 판본 자료가 주로 불특정한 다수에게 메시지를 전달하는 데 반해 언간 자료는 특정한 개인에게 메시지를 전달한다는 점에서 판본 자료보다 '생략'이 더 자주 나타난다. 그 가운데에서 '격조사'의 생략이 두드러진다. 이러한 생략에는 '간결성', '비격식성', '신속성', '문체적 효과' 따위의 기능이 있다. 위에 제시한 생략의 네 가지 기능을 중심으로 격조사 생략의 양상을 분석하였다. 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 격조사 가운데 주격조사와 대격조사의 생략이 가장 자주 일어난다. 문장의 운율효과를 높일 때나 연어와 관용어 표현에서 이러한 생략이 일어났다. 또한 한문을 직역한 번역체에서도 생략이 나타났다. 처격조사는 주격조사와 대격조사에 비해 상대적으로 생략이 덜 일어나는 편이다. 처격조사 가운데에서도 '-에/-의'가 '-에셔/-의셔/-셔'보다 생략이 더 잘 되었다. '-에/-의' 다음에 동작성이 약하거나 동작성이 없는 동사가 오고, '-에셔/-의셔/-셔' 다음에 동작성이 강한 동사가 오는 것과 관련이 있는 듯하나 단정할 수 없다. 여격조사는 주격, 대격, 처격에 비해 실현이 잘 되었다. 다만 존칭 체언이 '아바님'이나 '어마님'일 경우 존칭의 여격조사('-')가 결합되지 않고 평칭의 여격조사('-의게/-게')가 결합된다는 점이 특기(特記)할 만하다. 속격조사는 현대국어에서와 마찬가지로 생략이 잘 되었으며 중세국어 언해문에서 보았던 주격적 속격이 꽤 남아 있었다. 구격조사 '-로'는 시간관련 어휘와 결합에서 [과거]의 '어제'에는 붙지 않고, [현재]의 ''과 [미래]의 ''에는 결합하는 경우가 많았고 간혹 생략되는 경우도 있었다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2021

최근 딥러닝 기반 자연언어처리 연구들은 다양한 출처의 대용량 데이터들을 함께 학습하여 성능을 올리고자 하는 연구들을 진행하고 있다. 그러나 다양한 출처의 데이터를 하나로 합쳐서 학습시키는 방법론은 성능 향상을 막게 될 가능성이 존재한다. 기계번역의 경우 병렬말뭉치 간의 번역투(의역, 직역), 어체(구어체, 문어체, 격식체 등), 도메인 등의 차이로 인하여 데이터 편차가 발생하게 되는데 이러한 말뭉치들을 하나로 합쳐서 학습을 시키게 되면 성능의 악영향을 미칠 수 있다. 이에 본 논문은 기계번역에서 병렬말뭉치 간의 균형성을 고려한 Corpus Weight Balance (CWB) 학습 방법론을 제안한다. 실험결과 말뭉치 간의 균형성을 고려한 모델이 그렇지 않은 모델보다 더 좋은 성능을 보였다. 더불어 단일 말뭉치로도 고품질의 병렬 말뭉치를 구축할 수 있는 휴먼번역 시장과의 상생이 가능한 말뭉치 구축 프로세스를 추가로 제안한다.