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영어발음교육과 발음기호 (Phonetic Alphabet as a Pronunciation Guide)

  • 강용순
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제56권1호
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    • pp.65-78
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the International Phonetic Alphabet be included in English curriculum and taught in English classroom. Current English curriculum for elementary and middle school students doesn't specify anything for the education of the IPA. The knowledge of IPA is essential for the students to study by themselves how to pronounce English words. The IPA, however, is either too little or too much to be taught at school. It is too little in that it doesn't tell us anything about allophones, the knowledge of which could enable us to get rid of foreign accents as much as possible. It is too much in that it can represent more than one sounds (e.g., /ɔ/ in American and British English). To overcome these drawbacks, it should be introduced gradually with the allophones in the same environments. The correct vowel sounds should be introduced with the aid of pronunciation dictionary so that the students could get their own vowel quality. Moreover, the IPA symbol should be adopted for the English textbooks.

COLT 수업관찰 분석법을 통한 학교 현장의 의사소통중심 영어 수업 분석 (An analysis of the characteristics of communicative English classes using COLT)

  • 전영주
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제16권3호
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    • pp.339-363
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the English classes in secondary schools in Korea are in terms of communicative nature. After literature study, COLT parts A and B were used to analyze three kinds of English classes: a common class type taught by a school teacher who had won 1st prize at TEE contest, a team teaching class taught by NNS and NS, and a model class taught by a pre-service English teacher. Their communicative English classes were videotaped and transcribed for analysis by COLT. The results of the study revealed that students participated in the classes mostly as a unit and, therefore, did not get many meaningful chances to speak English. Second, creative language-use opportunities were barely found during classes. Third, the group work seemed to be prepared before the class, not to be done during the class. Therefore it is likely to be learned from memorization rather than meaningful communication. These results suggest English classes in schools be more communicatively oriented for successful English learning. Further study should be conducted in order to make English classes more communicative to help students communicate their genuine messages in English and to help teachers teach English efficiently.

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한국인 학습자의 능숙도에 따른 영어 리듬의 시간적 안정성 구현 (Relative Temporal Stability in English Speech Rhythm by Korean learners with low and high English Proficiency.)

  • 김희성;장영수;신지영;김기호
    • 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한음성학회 2007년도 한국음성과학회 공동학술대회 발표논문집
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    • pp.213-216
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to observe how Korean learners with low (KL) and high (KH) English proficiency manifest English rhythm with respect to the relative temporal stability or temporal constraint of syllable. In this study, speech cycling task, repeating a short phrase with the series of beeps of same interval, was used to examine temporal distribution of stressed beats.

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A Study on the Teaching Method of English Literature through the Internet and Its Effect -L2 Acquisition through British-American fiction in CCDL class between Kangwon National University and Waseda University-

  • Baek, Nak-Seung
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2002
  • One of the benefits of the internet-assisted instruction is that it can improve L2 Learners' motivation to express themselves in English. The purpose of this paper is to investigate an effective approach to British-American fiction learning in Korean universities, which can emphasize communicative strategies drawing on video-conferencing system, a chat system(CUSeeMe), and an e-mail system. Students are passive participants who cannot assert their creativity in the traditional teaching method of British-American fiction, which mainly relies upon reading and translation far from literature lessons. In CCDL(Cross-cultural distance learning) class, students can play active roles in asserting their own ideas and assuming considerable responsibility for making a presentation in English. A professor can play a role as a coordinator in supporting the students' activities and in winding up the class. The main significance of this article lies in providing a paradigm for CCDL class beyond the limitation of the traditional teaching method of British-American fiction in Korea and futhermore in exploring the eclectic integration of the traditional one and CCDL.

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An Optimality Approach to NPI Constructions

  • Moon, Seung-Chul;Sohng, Hong-Ki
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제55권3호
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    • pp.459-474
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    • 2009
  • The Journal of English Language and Literature. The purpose of this study is to provide an optimality theoretic approach to NPIs (Negative Polarity Items) in English and Korean by proposing three universal constraints. The constraints are C-command Condition (CCC): NPI must be c-commanded by a constituent with negative meaning; Locality Condition (LOC): NPI must be bound in the local domain; Subjacency: NPI licensing must satisfy Subjacency Condition (SBJ); Previous analyses have shown that these three constraints control NPIs in one way or another. This study attempts to demonstrate that NPIs in both English and Korean languages can be nicely accounted for by setting a different constraint hierarchy for the two independent languages. That is, by slightly changing the constraint hierarchy, distributional differences of NPIs in both languages can be accounted straightforwardly within the framework of Optimality Theory.

An English School of International Relations Approach to Public Diplomacy: A Public Diplomacy Framework for Global Governance Issues

  • Ayhan, Kadir Jun
    • Journal of Public Diplomacy
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2022
  • Throughout the six decades evolution of the public diplomacy concept, international relations approaches have remained at the margins of the field. An important international relations theory that has been virtually non-existent in the public diplomacy literature is the English School of international relations. This theory has been the centerpiece of literature in diplomatic studies, but curiously, has not been applied to public diplomacy. In this editorial, I outline a public diplomacy framework for global governance issues that builds on the English School and Pamment's framework on the intersection of international development and public diplomacy.

English No Matter Construction: A Construction-based Perspective

  • Kim, Jong-Bok;Lee, Seung Han
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제57권6호
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    • pp.959-976
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    • 2011
  • The expression no matter, combining with an interrogative clause X, expresses 'it doesn't matter what the value is of X' and displays many syntactic and semantic peculiarities. To better understand the grammatical properties of the construction in question, we investigate English corpora available online and suggest that some of the irreducible properties the construction displays can be best captured by the inheritance mechanism which plays a central role in the HPSG and Construction Grammar. We show that the construction in question has its own constructional properties, but also inherits properties from related major head constructions.

한국인 영어학습자의 영어 어말자음 유/무성에 따른 모음길이 변화현상에 대한 실험음성학적 연구 - 마찰음, 폐찰음 중심으로 한 발성실험을 통하여 - (An Experimental Studies on Vowel Duration Differences before Voiced and Voiceless Consonants pronounced by Korean Learners of English - From Fricatives and Affricates sounds -)

  • 신동진;사재진
    • 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한음성학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회 발표논문집
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    • pp.91-95
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    • 2005
  • The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of postvocalic voicing(Contrasting voiceless fricative and affricate with voiced fricative and affricate) on vowel duration. In particular we focused on the durational differences between vowels followed by voiceless and voiced consonants across three groups of speakers: English speakers, English bilinguals and Korean learners of English. the result of experimental I showed that durations of vowels preceding voiced fricative and affricates as well as voiced stops are significantly longer than those preceding voiceless counterparts. Experiment Ⅱ indicated that as the subjects exposed themselves longer to English speaking society, their pronunciation was increasingly similar to those of English native speakers.

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문학을 활용한 통합영어수업의 학습자 그룹저널에 나타난 공감성 분석 (An Analysis of Empathy Represented in Students' Group Journal of Integrated English Class Using Literature)

  • 최민주;김정렬
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.228-234
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    • 2018
  • 본 연구는 문학을 활용한 통합영어수업의 학습자 그룹저널에 나타난 공감성을 질적으로 분석하였다. 본 연구는 충북소재 K고등학교 2학년 1개의 반에 속한 15명의 고등학생(남학생 2명, 여학생 13명)을 대상으로 하였다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 문학을 활용한 영어 수업의 다수가 읽기지도에 치중한 점을 보완하여 통합영어수업을 진행하였으며 의사소통능력뿐만 아니라 학습자가 문학작품에서 주인공이 처한 상황에 학습자가 직접 공감하도록 수업을 진행하였다. 학습자의 공감성을 분석하기 위해 2차시에 걸쳐 통합영어수업을 진행하고 진행된 수업을 비디오로 녹화하여 전사하였다. 공감성은 2015 개정 교육과정에서 언급한 공동체 역량에 근거하여 기준을 세웠으며 학습자들로 하여금 주인공의 입장에서 그룹저널을 쓰도록 하였다. 학습자의 그룹저널을 분석한 결과, 학습자들은 소설 속 시대 상황에 대한 이해를 보였다. 또한 현재 자신의 모습을 소설 속 주인공의 모습에 투영하는 모습을 보였다. 같은 주인공의 입장에서 글을 썼지만 각 조마다 공감하는 부분이 상이했으며 작품 속 인물의 내면세계에 대해 공감하는 모습을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 문학을 활용한 통합영어수업의 학습자 그룹저널에 나타난 공감성에 대한 분석 자료는 차후 문학을 활용한 수업에 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

Acquisition of English speech rhythm by Chinese learners of English at different English proficiency levels

  • Zhang, Jiaqi;Lee, Sook-hyang
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제11권4호
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to investigate the rhythmic patterns in the English speech produced by Chinese learners of English who learn English as a foreign language (EFL learners). Utilizing interval-based rhythm metrics, namely, VarcoC, VarcoV, nPVI-C, nPVI-V, and %V, the study compared the rhythmic differences in English speech between ten native speakers from the United States and forty Chinese EFL learners from mainland China. A sentence elicitation task consisting of thirty picture prompts and corresponding thirty stimuli sentences with at least five vocalic and four consonantal intervals was conducted. Statistical results reveal that both Chinese advanced learners and beginners had significantly lower degree of stress-timed in their English speech, indicating that the acquisition of the L2 speech rhythm was influenced by the learners' L1 rhythmic pattern. In addition, the results also show that the Chinese advanced learners had significantly higher degree of stress-timed in their English speech than beginners and showed no significant difference with native speakers in VarcoC and nPVI-C. These results indicate that the direction of L2 speech rhythm development was from more syllable-timed to more stress-timed.