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VTS English Communication Proficiency Criteria based on G1132 VTS VHF Voice Communication

  • Seung-Hee Choi
    • 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국항해항만학회 2023년도 춘계학술대회
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    • pp.19-20
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    • 2023
  • IALA Guideline 1132 is intended to assist authorities in implementing the procedures described in IALA Recommendation R1012: VTS Communications with the objective of harmonizing VTS communications through the use of standard message structure and phraselogly. For this reason, it is recommended that VTS Authorities put adequate procedures in place to ensure its consistent and correct implementation for the actual VTS operation as is now being considered in IALA as part of the VTS English language proficiency test. In light of the 2022 publication of IALA Guideline 1132: VTS Voice Communications and Phraseology, in this sense, the potential evaluative variables will be studied in the context of this presentation.

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The Acquisition of the English Locative Alternation by Korean EFL Learners: What Makes L2 Learning Difficult?

  • Kim, Bo-Ram
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제12권4호
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    • pp.31-68
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    • 2006
  • The present research investigates the acquisition of the English locative alternation by Korean EFL learners, which poses a learnability paradox, taking Pinker's framework of learnability theory as its basis. It addresses two questions (1) how lexical knowledge is represented initially and at different levels of interlanguage development and (2) what kinds of difficulty Korean learners find in the acquisition of English locative verbs and their constructions. Three groups of learners at different proficiency levels with a control group of English native speakers are examined by two instruments: elicited production task and grammaticality judgment task. According to different levels of proficiency, the learners exhibit gradual sensitivity to a change-of-state meaning and obtain complete perception of the meanings of locative verbs (manner-of-motion and change-of-state) and their constructions. Overgeneralization errors are observed in their performance. The errors are due to misinterpretations of particular lexical items in conjunction with the universal linking rules. More fundamental cause of difficulty is accounted for by partial use of learning mechanisms, caused by insufficient L2 input.

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발음 숙련도 상위 성인 학습자들의 영어 발음에 대한 분석 (An analysis of English pronunciation for high-level proficiency adult learners)

  • 김지은
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the English pronunciation for high-leveled adult Korean speakers based on pronunciation proficiency test. For this purpose, one native English speaker and eight Korean speakers' suprasegmental features such as sentence F0, standard deviation of vowels and stressed / unstressed vowels' F0, duration and intensity were measured and analyzed. The major results show that (1) high-leveled adult Korean speakers' sentence F0 was similar to that of native English speaker, (2) vowel durations, were less diverse than those of native English speakers, and (3) high-leveled adult Korean speakers utilize vowel duration more actively than F0 to indicate the stress assignment of vowels.

한국인 및 일본인 영어학습자의 유음 차이 지각에 미치는 시각/청각 효과 (Korean and Japanese EFL Learners' AV Benefit for the Perception of the Liquid Contrast in English)

  • 정현성
    • 대한음성학회지:말소리
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    • 제60호
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2006
  • This paper investigated AV benefit of Korean and Japanese EFL learners' perception of the liquid contrast in English. In a perception experiment, the two English consonants /l/ and /r/ were embedded in initial and medial position in nonsense words in the context of the vowels /i, a, u/. Singletons and clusters were included in the speech material. Audio and video recordings were made using a total of 108 items. The items were presented to Korean and Japanese learners of English in three conditions: audio-alone (A), visual-alone (V) and audio-visual presentation (AV). The results showed that there was no evidence of AV benefit for the perception of the /l/-/r/ contrast for either Korean or Japanese learners of English. The results suggest that increasing auditory proficiency in identifying a non-native contrast is linked with an increasing proficiency in using visual cues to the contrast.

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대학생의 영어가정법 습득에 관한 연구 (A Study on Acquisition of English Subjunctive Mood in EFL College Students)

  • 김경훈
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제7권9호
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    • pp.231-239
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    • 2007
  • 이 연구의 목적은 한국대학생들의 영어 가정법습득에 관한 것이다. 이를 위해 다음과 같이 연구문제를 제시하였다 첫 번째, 일반 영어 능력과 가정법 습득과는 어떤 상관관계가 있는가? 두 번째, 성별에 따라 영어 가정법 습득에 차이가 있는가? 세 번째, 영어 능숙도에 따라 영어 가정법 습득에 차이가 있는가? 를 조사하였다. 이 연구의 대상은 광주소재의 C 대학교 교양 영어를 수강하는 73명의 학생들이며 남학생들이 37명, 여학생들이 36명이었다. 이 연구를 위한 자료는 가정법에 관한 40문제를 제시하였고 설문지 기법을 이용하였다. 이 연구의 분석방법은 통계프로그램인 SPSS 12.0을 이용하여 분산분석 방법을 실행하였다. 성별에 따른 가정법 습득의 결과는 남학생과 여학생 집단 간에 유의미한 차이가 없었고, 영어 능숙도에 따른 가정법 습득의 결과는 세 집단간에 유의미한 차이를 보였다.

해사영어 플랫폼을 활용한 표준해사영어 실력 향상에 관한 연구 (Study on Improving Maritime English Proficiency Through the Use of a Maritime English Platform)

  • 설진기;박영수;신동수;김대원
    • 해양환경안전학회지
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    • 제29권7호
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    • pp.930-938
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    • 2023
  • 해사영어는 선박 운항, 해양 안전, 선내 의사소통 및 선외 교신을 위해 설계된 특수한 영어 언어체계이다. 국제해사기구 STCW(선원의 훈련, 자격증명 및 당직근무의 기준에 관한 국제협약)에 따르면 국제항해에 종사하는 항해사가 되기 위해서는 SMCP를 포함한 해사영어 대한 충분한 이해가 수반되어야 한다. 본 연구는 음성인식, 번역, 단어 기입 등 유형의 해사영어시험을 통하여 학생들의 해사영어 활용 능력을 측정하고 플랫폼 사용에 따른 시험 점수 향상 정도, 나아가 초임항해사로 나가기 위하여 요구되는 해사영어 시험 플랫폼 활용 시간 등을 조사하고자 하였다. 실험은 먼저 초기 시험을 통해 학생들의 일반영어능력과 SMCP 활용 능력에 대한 연관성을 조사한 후, 중간 시험 및 최종 시험을 통해 플랫폼 활용에 대한 점수 향상 정도, 응시시간 변화 등 요인을 측정하였다. 초기 시험을 통해 개인 요인(예: 토익 점수, 본인 스스로에 대한 영어능력 평가)에 따른 그룹 간 해사영어시험 점수에 유의한 차이가 있음을 확인하였으며, 중간시험 및 최종시험을 통해 플랫폼 활용이 유의한 시험점수 향상으로 이어졌음을 확인하였다. 해당 연구는 해사 교육분야에 다양하게 적용할 수 있는 학습 플랫폼 활용 효능을 조사하였으며 향후 해사영어 교육 외 그 범위를 넓혀 활용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

형태에 초점을 맞춘 교수가 영어쓰기 능력에 미치는 영향: 비즈니스 영작문 교육을 위한 탐색 (The effects of focus-on-form instruction on EFL learners' English writing ability: An inquiry for teaching business English writing)

  • 김부자
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.77-98
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of the study is to investigate whether focus-on-form instruction is effective in promoting accuracy in writing and to make some suggestions regarding education in business English writing. For this purpose, an experiment, of which the participants were 29 college sophomores taking a course in business English, was made. The learners received instruction in the English nouns followed by modificatory phrases or clauses through the focus-on-form techniques, feedback and explicit explanation. The results were as follows: First, the learners who received focus-on-form instruction improved accuracy in writing. Second, there was a correlation between the learners' English proficiency levels and the effects of focus-on-form instruction. Third, the high level learners showed more positive attitude toward focus-on-form instruction than the low level ones. To promote accuracy in written business communication, the following suggestions were made on the basis of the results: First, focus-on-form instruction should be incorporated into a content-based business English class. Second, repeated focus-on-form instruction is needed. Third, learners' English proficiency levels should be taken into account when focus-on-form instruction is given.

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ESL과 EFL학습프로그램에 의한 아동 영어능력 비교연구 (Comparative Study on English Proficiency of Children of ESL(English as a Second Language) & EFL(English as Foreign Language) Learning Programs)

  • 윤유진;정영숙
    • 한국생활과학회지
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    • 제14권6호
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    • pp.961-972
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the improvement of English proficiency of children in the ESL and EFL learning style classrooms through the experiment method. The results of this research are as follows: first, the scores of listening and speaking and the perception of alphabets in the ESL program are higher than that in the EFL program. This means that learning in the ESL style classroom is the better way to improve English skills than in the EFL style classroom, which is common in Korea. Second, there is no difference in the English listening and speaking skills and the perception of the English alphabets between the two gender groups in the ESL & EFL style classrooms. These results suggest that the target language may be used in the English classrooms by the teachers and the students with the materials, books, and equipment are English. Teachers are expected to be in charge of playing decisive roles as demonstrators of speech, models and correctors of pronunciation and providers of materials including TV, VCR, CD players, and cassette recorders, etc.

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Acoustic Measurement of English read speech by native and nonnative speakers

  • Choi, Han-Sook
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제3권3호
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    • pp.77-88
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    • 2011
  • Foreign accent in second language production depends heavily on the transfer of features from the first language. This study examines acoustic variations in segments and suprasegments by native and nonnative speakers of English, searching for patterns of the transfer and plausible indexes of foreign accent in English. The acoustic variations are analyzed with recorded read speech by 20 native English speakers and 50 Korean learners of English, in terms of vowel formants, vowel duration, and syllabic variation induced by stress. The results show that the acoustic measurements of vowel formants and vowel and syllable durations display difference between native speakers and nonnative speakers. The difference is robust in the production of lax vowels, diphthongs, and stressed syllables, namely the English-specific features. L1 transfer on L2 specification is found both at the segmental levels and at the suprasegmental levels. The transfer levels measured as groups and individuals further show a continuum of divergence from the native-like target. Overall, the eldest group, students who are in the graduate schools, shows more native-like patterns, suggesting weaker foreign accent in English, whereas the high school students tend to involve larger deviation from the native speakers' patterns. Individual results show interdependence between segmental transfer and prosodic transfer, and correlation with self-reported proficiency levels. Additionally, experience factors in English such as length of English study and length of residence in English speaking countries are further discussed as factors to explain the acoustic variation.

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Patterns of Integrating Reading and Writing Skills in ESL College Composition Classes

  • Kim, Sun-Young
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제13권4호
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    • pp.59-85
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    • 2007
  • This study examined patterns of engaging in "reading in connection to writing" (hereafter reading-writing practices) in the context of two ESL college composition classrooms. The purpose of this study was to explore whether the L2 proficiency level could be a key construct in explaining similarities and differences in reading-writing practices which students engaged in during the composing process. Multiple sources of data collected over the semester included interview protocols, written products, and observational notes. The results showed that the three proficiency groups under examination differed widely in the ways reading was connected to writing and in the types of intermediate texts produced during the composing process. The students in the high proficiency group produced more intermediate texts through an engagement in reading-writing practices connected to each other. On the contrary, the students in lower proficiency groups engaged in a limited range of reading-writing practices without support of intermediate texts. This study provides insight into the different ways ESL college students coordinate reading and writing while composing essays.

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