• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.99-109
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• 1999

Environment education, which is a principal solution to environmental problems in the world, is being practiced in Korea through the national curricula for primary and secondary schools. However, it hasn't been effective so far to practice environment education within those schools where a variety of subjects are taught. The purpose of this study is to look for the possibility of practicing environment education and thereby to make some suggestions for effective environment education in the field of English education, which doesn't seem to have a close relationship with environment education. This study first specified prospective contents of environment education by analyzing the Seventh National English Curriculum. Then, on the basis of them, the study explored how to practice environment education in the field of English education. Finally, for effective environment education, it made some suggestions and emphasized the importance of consistent efforts.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.261-277
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• 2010

This study is undertaken to present the facilitation plan of English library that specialized the resource-based learning to provide learning that is suited for student's own learning style and self-leading learning as the method to learn contents required for individuals as a method for improving the English education environment in the rural areas. For this purpose, a study was conducted to find out the possibility of facilitating English library in the rural areas on the basis of consulting for structuring and operating English library in public libraries located in isolated areas clustered with low income class in the urban areas where the conditions are similar to the rural areas and results are shown as the followings. First, it displayed the possibility to have the rural area located with many closed schools or small-sized schools to facilitate the available facilities to build up the environment to specialize in English education that would be as comparable as any facilities in any urban setting. Second, it would enable the conditions to moderate the conflict on education environment for local residents who felt inequality in education by providing the benefit for fine education linked to public education through English library without going through private education. And third, English library that has the limitations in locality or economic means would actively participate by local educational institutions and volunteers to enhance the sense of master for the local residents and bring residents together to make positive impact on local economy facilitation.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.585-599
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• 2020

This study investigated children's interests in learning English, affected by educational activities in and out of institutes, and mothers' perceptions regarding early childhood English education. We recruited, 253 mothers of 3- to 5-year-old children in either general kindergartens or English immersion institutes. They answered questions on socioeconomic status, perceived interest in English by their children, their perceptions regarding early childhood English education, and English education outside institutes. In addition, 42 English teachers provided information within institutes such as class time per week, teacher-pupil rate, and language use policy during class. The collected data were analyzed through SPSS 22 for frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, independent t-test, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The major findings are as follows. First, the two groups were in distinct learning environment. Second, mothers' perceptions and outside-institute activities were significantly different between the two groups. Third, the English interests of children at both institutes were influenced by mothers' worries and at-home English interactions. Fourth, education within institutes did not affect both group's English interests. Fifth, private education and socioeconomic status did not affect both group's English interests. Lastly, only the children's interests in English immersion institutes were affected by gender and mother's perceived necessities. Focusing children's interests, this study helps in understanding young children's affective aspects regarding learning English. The findings are expected to be a guideline for each home and institute to increase children's interest in learning English.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.115-137
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• 2011

The tourism industry has attained remarkable growth, and the need for professional Tourism English education has increased. Universities of online education can offer an environment for education to both job applicants and laymen who are interested in Tourism English. Tourism English belongs to English for Specific Purposes, which reflects the needs of specific area. The aim of this study is to propose improvements in classes design for online Tourism English instruction. The results of a needs analysis conducted on 160 Korean online university students suggest that online Tourism English class should be different from a traditional classroom-based one in regards to aims, contents, and methods. Online Tourism English class should not only focus on English for specific purposes, but also include more generalized topics. This comes as a result of the diverse backgrounds of online students. The results suggest that extralinguistic elements, such as culture and etiquette differences among English-speaking countries, become more interesting when introduced using pictures, videos, animations, etc. Additionally, SMS or emails can be utilized to raise students' motivation for online Tourism English class.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.261-282
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to investigate American traditional values and American culture in English education. The understanding of American culture in English education requires the analysis of world changes in the global age. The history of American English, the formation of American society, and the background of natural environment are described in relation to the traditional American values of the earliest settlers, such as multi-culture, individual freedom, frontier heritage in the West, equality of opportunity and wealth and material abundance. Hence the case studies of students' project presentations on the American culture in English education exemplify the reflection of American traditional values in the current American life and society. It is concluded that project-based method with regard to cultural studies in English education reveals very positive learning effects by driving students' interests and active participation through the student-centered, creative, and cooperative project presentations.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.407-415
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• 2015

오프라인 English Zone이란 교실 내에서 학습자가 영어로 말하고 듣고, 알고 싶은 단어나 내용을 스스로 찾고 연습하고 그 결과를 확인할 수 있도록 만든 물리적 환경을 말한다. 그러나 제한적이고 인위적 환경에 의존할 수밖에 없는 오프라인의 English Zone은 쇼핑 존, 레스토랑 존, 병원 존 등의 소규모 영어 마을처럼 인위적인 공간을 설정하여 학생들이 자발적으로 Role Play를 체험할 수 있는 환경을 제공해야 하는 극히 제한적인 운영이 될 수밖에 없다. 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 오프라인에서의 English Zone 프로그램을 활용한 학습방법이 가지고 있는 환경적인 제한성의 문제점을 분석하고 유비쿼터스 개념에 기초하여 멀티미디어 도구 활용, 무선 인터넷 활용과 SNS를 활용한 온라인 English Zone 프로그램의 활용 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제3호
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• pp.141-183
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• 1997

This paper aims to find out the current state of early English education in the world(including Korea) and to suggest its more desirable direction, with special reference to TEFL in elementary schools of Korea. In fact English teaching in elementary schools of Korea has been put into practice as an extracurricular activity since 1982. But in 1995 the Ministry of Education proclaimed a policy to establish a TEFL program as the regular course in elementary schools of Korea since 1997. In this connection, the writer surveyed several kinds of theories about early English education to verify the necessity and validity of Korea's elementary school English education. The logical result from these theories is that younger children are better equipped to learn foreign languages with efficiency than older children or adults. However, as most studies are based on logical inferences rather than on direct observation or experimental evidence, we are not sure that those theories are right. In this view, the writer put stress on the preparation of educational environments to establish a more desirable direction of early English education in Korea, since Korea's elementary school English education will be practiced under EFL environment, not ESL environment. The writer also pointed out some problems of educational finances, the curriculum development process and its content, teaching materials(textbooks and tapes), English teachers, teaching methods, evaluation, educational facilities. This paper concludes that we have to try to solve these problems to succeed in a TEFL program in elementary schools of Korea and suggests several things for a more desirable direction of Korea's elementary school English education.

• 정보교육학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2000

I studied a distance education model for English learning on the Internet. Basic WWW files, that contain courseware, are constructed with HTML, and functions, which are required in learning, are implemented with Java. Students and educators can access the preferred unit composed of the appropriate text, voice and image data by using a WWW browser at any time. The education system supports the automatic generation facility of English problems to practice reading and writing by making good use of the courseware data or various English text resources located on the Internet. Our system has functions to manage and control the flow of distance learning and to offer interaction between students and the system in a distributed environment. Educators can manage students' learning and can immediately be aware of who is attending and who is quitting the lesson in virtual space. Also, students and educators in different places can communicate and discuss a topic through the server. I implemented these functions, which are required in a client/server environment of distance education, with the use of Java. The URL for this system is "http://park.taegu-e.ac.kr" in the name of GAIA.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.565-571
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• 2019

본 연구는 사범대학 영어교육과에 재학 중인 학생들의 교양영어에 대한 인식과 요구를 바탕으로, 전공에 특화되나 전공 교육과는 차별화된 좀 더 효과적인 교양 영어교육에 대한 제언을 하고자 하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위하여 영어교육과에 재학 중인 학생들을 대상으로 영어교양 교육의 인식과 요구와 관련된 설문과 인터뷰를 수행하였다. 설문 결과, 현 교양영어에 대한 영어교육과 학생들의 만족도는 전체적으로 3점대로 높지는 않았다. '멀티미디어 시설 등 강의실 환경'에 대한 만족도나 교수진의 전문성, 자질, 교수방법'은 타 항목에 비해서 평균 점수가 비교적 높았으나 '영어실력 향상의 정도'나 '흥미유발 정도'에 대한 항목 가장 낮은 평균점수를 보였다. 이 외에도 본 연구에서 수행한 교양영어 프로그램에 대한 요구와 수준별 수업에 대한 요구, 교수자에 대한 요구 결과를 바탕으로 영어교육 전공자들을 위한 교양영어 교육을 위하여 제안은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 영어 교육 전공자들을 위한 전공특화 교양영어선택 과목을 개설한다. 둘째, 전공과 연계된 교양영어 회화 과목을 개발한다. 또한 영문학을 바탕으로 한 의사소통중심 교양 독해수업을 개발한다.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.699-710
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• 2007

The study purposes to explore the effects of individual characteristics and home environments of children on their bilingual language aquisition, that is, to examine whether their English language competency is different from their Korean language competency depending on those variables. Thus English or Korean language competency of children who had had early exposure in English learning were studied in terms of child's individual characteristics such as age, gender, exposure period to English, intelligence, and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries, and home environments such as parental age, educational level, income level, their perceived English competency, their perceived significance of English and Korean language, and the frequency of using English at home. 72 children who went to English kindergarten were tested with Peabody Pictures Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) in Korean version and in English version respectively. The results show that child's intelligence and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries influence their Korean language competency. Also child's age, exposure period to English and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries influence their English language competency. Moreover their mother's educational background, father's English fluency, mothers' English fluency, and the frequency of using English at home influence child's English language competency, whereas any variables did not influence child's Korean language competency. Accordingly, child's English and Korean language competencies are related to each other.