• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.313-337
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• 2011

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of the cultural instruction based on the critical pedagogy through film. The participants were 21 college students enrolling 'Understanding American/British culture'class and the class was 15 week long. During class, they discussed and selected the cultural topics related to the movies, complete the research papers, and then gave presentations. The students' portfolio, which consists of the goal statements, research papers, and the reflective journals, was analyzed to investigate the effectiveness of the instruction. The results showed that the instruction was effective in five aspects. They are, 1)accumulation of the cultural knowledge, 2)better understanding of the target culture and its people, 3)acquisition of the critical perspectives toward the target and their own cultures, 4)teaching method, and 5)increase of the motivation for studying other cultures. The study suggested that the instruction should be applied to English-medium class with more advanced students.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.391-411
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of culture teaching and using web sites as a method of culture teaching in college English education. To achieve these purposes, a web-based culture teaching-learning model was developed and applied in English classes. Then, the effects were compared with those of a culture teaching method which were based on the traditional verbal explanation. As the tools for this study, two test sheets were used to measure language proficiency and American cultural knowledge. Focusing on the study results, the conclusions were summed up as follows: First, for enhancing the American cultural knowledge, using the web was found to be more effective than traditional verbal explanations. Second, for English language enhancement through web-based culture teaching, it is necessary to do it for each level of English proficiency or develop web sites which fit well with students' interests or levels.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2022년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.361-362
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• 2022

As the importance of maritime communication in a cross-cultural onboard working environment grows, the importance of developing systematic supporting aids both for learning and teaching maritime English has been emphasized. Given that English communication proficiency is one of the most critical factors in determining a seafarer's competency, a systemic supporting system for enhancing maritime English communication capabilities is essential not only for them to professionally carry out and conduct assigned duties onboard, but also for them to navigate success in their lives through increased labour mobility both at sea and onshore. The APEC Seafarers Excellence Network initiates the production of Maritime English Communication Packages for seafarers in APEC regions, under the leadership of the Republic of Korea. This paper introduces the design of APEC SEN Maritime English Communication Packages, which include textbooks, audio-lingual materials, online/mobile life-long learning platform and testing aids, ultimately for upand re-skilling of seafarers to increase their employability, mobility and preparedness for the future shipping industry where globalisation is expected to further accelerate.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.177-194
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• 2011

This study examines the use of discourse markers in cross-cultural communication between EFL learners in an e-learning environment. The study analyzes the use of discourse markers in a corpus of an interactive web with a bulletin board system through which college students of English at Japanese and Korean universities interacted with each other discussing the topics of local and global issues. It compares the use of discourse markers in the learners' corpus to that of a native English speakers' corpus. The results indicate that discourse markers are useful interactional devices to structure and organize discourse. EFL learners are found to display more frequent use of referentially and cognitively functional discourse markers and a relatively rare use of other markers. Native speakers are found to use a wider variety of discourse markers for different functions. Suggestions are made for using computer corpora in understanding EFL learners' language difficulties and helping them become more interactionally competent speakers.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제24권
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• pp.120-131
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• 2011

South Africa is a multiracial country where different cultures and languages coexist. Culture can be conveyed through language. Language conditioning is also social conditioning, and through words we make sense of our own and others' experience. In this paper I investigate the meaning of two culturally significant words: (English) peace and (African) ubuntu. Data findings will show how L2 speakers of English, when asked to define peace, promptly operate a process of transfer of the meaning from their mother-tongue Xhosa equivalent - uxolo - to its English equivalent. Ubuntu, an African word which encompasses traditional African values, has no counterpart in English. I will also argue how, in the ongoing process of globalisation, English is playing a predominant role in promoting cultural homogenization.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제28권
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• pp.141-161
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• 2012

Abusive language used by college students reflects current social attitudes and values. Adopting a comparative and cross-cultural perspective, this study examines the frequency and perceived severity of abusive language in English and Mandarin Chinese. Because abusive language often includes sexual connotations, this paper employs a particular concentration on sexism. Gender differences in the use of abusive language illustrate a male bias across cultures.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.496-504
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• 2012

본 논문의 목적은 한국 초등학교 영어 교육에서 문화 요소의 효율적 지도방법을 안내하고자 한다. 논문의 목적을 위해서 초등영어 문화교육에 관한 많은 연구들을 분석하였다. 국제화 시대에 의사소통을 위한 영어교육은 다양한 타 문화에 대한 이해를 바탕으로 이루어져야 한다. 그러나 한국 초등학교 학생들은 영어권 나라의 문화에 노출되거나 접근하는데 어려움이 있다. 초등영어 문화교육이 잘 이루어지지 못하는 데는 다음과 같은 이유가 있다. 첫째, 영어교사들이 목표 문화에 대한 자신감이 없고 자신들 스스로 문화교육을 위한 충분한 경험과 지식이 없다고 간주한다. 영어교사들 역시 문화요소에 대해 배우지 못했고 문화요소가 강조되지 않았었다. 둘째, 교과서와 교사용 지도서에 문화 관련된 적절한 교수내용이 없다. 그러므로 필수적인 문화 요소는 영어교육 전문가들에 의해서 채택되고 교과서와 교사용 지도서에 수록되어야 한다. 교과서와 교사용 지도서는 체계적으로 연관성을 가져야 한다. 초등 영어 교사들은 다양한 문화를 경험하고 이해할 수 있는 기회를 늘려야 할 것으로 본다. 언어는 문화의 일부이고 문화는 언어의 일부이다. 제 2언어 습득은 제 2문화 습득이기도 하다. 초등 영어 교과서에서 문화요소를 심도 있게 다루고 문화에 대한 이해와 경험을 갖춘 교사가 양성 되었을 때 진정한 의사소통을 위한 영어교육이 이루어 질 수 있다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 2015 개정 5-6학년군 영어교과서의 문화내용을 분석하고, 2009 개정교육과정에 따른 5-6학년군 영어교과서의 문화내용을 분석한 선행연구로부터의 제언들이 2015 개정 영어교과서에 얼마나 반영되었는지 알아보는 것이다. 또한 분석의 결과를 바탕으로 초등영어 교과서에서 바람직한 문화내용의 제시 방향을 모색하였다. 이를 위하여 2009 및 2015 교육과정에 따른 5-6학년군 영어교과서 각 10종, 총 20종의 교과서를 문화유형, 문화소재, 문화 배경에 따라 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 2015 개정 영어교과서에는 아직 문화 유형별, 소재별, 배경별 불균형이 존재하고 있으며, 2009 개정 영어교과서 분석시 제언되었던 내용들이 충분히 반영되지 않았음을 알 수 있었다. 그러므로 학습자에게 균형 잡힌 문화교육을 제공하기 위해서는 영어교과서에 제시된 문화내용이 유형, 소재, 배경 면에서 보다 다양하고 균형 있게 제시되어야 할 것이다. 또한, 향후 다양한 선행연구에서 문화교육발전을 위해 제언되는 의견들은 영어교과서에 반영되어 더 효과적인 문화교육이 이루어지도록 해야 할 것이다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.209-224
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• 2009

This study examined the role of contextual knowledge in cross-cultural communication between non-native speakers on an interactive web with a bulletin board system through which college students of English at Japanese and Korean universities interacted with each other discussing the topics of local and global issues. The study investigated the influence of students' relative contextual knowledge on active participation in interactions and discussed the results focusing on the use of discourse strategies for meaning negotiation. The study argues that in interactions even between non-native speakers with limited proficiency, contextual knowledge in the topic under discussion affects the degree to which they accommodate to each other during communication and suggests that the focus of teaching English as a foreign language also should be given to what kind of contextual knowledge students need to obtain and how to express it rather than what level of proficiency in English they need to acquire.

• 영미문화
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.23-51
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• 2018

This paper focuses on historical instances of iconoclasm after the Reformation to reveal how iconoclasm had greatly contributed to the formation of the Protestant mindset in the early modern times. During the English civil war, when iconoclastic campaigns and movements were in full tide, the paper argues that the notions of novelty and progress were more positively accepted among radical religious groups. To put it in another way, the paper suggests a different way of looking the formation of Protestant habitus by giving accounts of how iconoclastic impulses spurred diverse religious groups during the civil war to break the mold of conservative thinking and to revolutionize the print culture hitherto based on patronage and served as a buttress for status-quo. From this analysis, then, we are ledto the different portrait of the protestant in the seventeenth century, whose mindset was not quite as solitary and guilt ridden as Max Weber would have us believe.