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외국어교육 환경에서 영어습득을 위한 읽기유창성과 정확성에 관한 연구 (Reading Fluency and Accuracy for English Language Acquisition in EFL Context.)

  • 신규철
    • 한국융합학회논문지
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    • 제9권3호
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    • pp.249-256
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    • 2018
  • 연구의 목적은 외국어 읽기의 유창성과 정확성의 언어습득적 의의를 고찰하고, 효율적인 영어 학습 패러다임을 연구하는데 있다. 언어습득 측면에서, 제 2언어학습의 정확성과 유창성사이에서 무엇을 우선 가르치느냐의 문제는 중요한 이슈가 되어왔다. 제 1언어와 제 2언어의 교실상황에서, 많은 언어연구가들의 관심 때문에, 유창성은 중요한 요소로 대두되고 있다. 정확성과 유창성은 둘 다 중요하지만, 외국어의 경우, 유창성 중심의 학습에서 정확성 중심의 학습으로 점진적인 학습 패러다임의 전환이 있어야 한다. 이런 관점에서, 본 연구는 외국어의 유창성 개발을 위한 대안으로 자발적다독법을 제시하고 있다. 빠르고 정확한 단어 인지 기술과 읽기 유창성이 없으면, 좋은 읽기 능력을 가질 수 없다. 그러므로 유창성 개발을 위한 방법들이 개발되어야 하며, 이것에 대한 해법으로, 자발적다독법이 외국어 교육상황에서 읽기유창성을 위한 효과적인 연구방법론임을 입증하고 있다.

Putting Michael McKeon to the "Question": Is Clarissa Harlowe a Prude or Saint?

  • Chung, Ewha
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제57권6호
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    • pp.1131-1149
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    • 2011
  • Michael McKeon, in The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, sets forth a theoretical study of a large canon of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury works, based upon the dialectic of genre formations, which attempts to analyze certain "instabilities" in generic and social categories- "instabilities" that McKeon identifies as "Questions of Truth" and "Questions of Virtue." In this paper, I argue with McKeon's optimistic reading of Samuel Richardson's work, Clarissa, or The History of Young Lady (1740), which concludes that-unlike Pamela's "manifest material and social empowerment"-Clarissa acquires "manifest discursive and imaginative empowerment" and "wins" (to use McKeon's terms) the "battle" with her antagonist, Robert Lovelace. What is difficult to accept in this reading of Clarissa is McKeon's claim that the "success" of Clarissa's resistance to Lovelace, despite the tragic rape, is evident in her "new-found power" which is represented in the heroine's spiritual "conversion"- her decision to die to protect her "version of truth and virtue." McKeon's spiritual "conversion" not only forces Clarissa to surrender her legal right to prosecute her rapist but also forces her to seek the shelter of her "father's house" in the afterlife because she can no longer "make others accept [her] own version of events as authoritative." Thus, in contrast to McKeon, I claim that Clarissa represents the necessary conditions for its heroine's "empowerment" primarily in language that suggests her manifest social invalidation; language which in particular emphasizes that her rape and torture by Lovelace forces Clarissa's spiritual "conversion" to seek her reward in the afterlife-thereby concluding that Clarissa's discursive and imaginative empowerment does not and cannot exist in the secular, material world.

A Study of Apology Strategies between Genders in EFL College Students

  • Shim, Jae-Hwang
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제15권2호
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    • pp.225-243
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    • 2009
  • This study investigates the use of different speech act of apology strategies between male and female EFL college students by comparing the components of intensity, stylistic competence, and semantic formulas. The data was collected from 37 participants who were studying freshmen English reading course at the Department of English Education of C University in Seoul. Most students were English majors taking pre-teacher course of teaching English for secondary school students. The participants were divided into two gender groups of male and female. The discourse completion test (DCT) which was revised from the speech act of apology by Olshtain and Cohen (1990) was provided with the participants after the researcher explained the speech act of apology in ten situations. The speech act of apology depends on situation variables: social solidarity, severity of offense, and social status. The results show that in the preference of intensity, male and female have almost the similar ratio in high (female: 24.7%, male 24%) and low intensity (female: 75.3%, male: 76%). In the use of stylistic competence, male group (21%) expresses more diversely formal features than female group (12%), while female (87%) use more informal features than male (66%). Most of participants show a limitation in the use of speaking four types of semantic formulas: expression of apology (APOL), acknowledgment of responsibility (RESP), offer of repair (REPR), and promise of forbearance (FORB). As nonnative speakers, the participants cannot conduct the semantic formula in some situations regardless of the tasks provided. The results suggest that English teachers should recognize pragmatic variations in which students feel difficulty in appropriate speaking strategies on apology. This study also contributes to teaching learners the strategies and speaking patterns in the course of various apology situations.

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후기 한국어-영어 이중언어화자의 자소-음소 변환 규칙에 따른 영어 규칙성 효과 (Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Regularity Effects among Late Korean-English Bilinguals)

  • 김다희;백연지;류재희;남기춘
    • 인지과학
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    • 제26권3호
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    • pp.323-355
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    • 2015
  • 후기 한국어-영어 이중언어화자의 자소-음소 변환규칙(grapheme to phoneme conversion rule, GPC 규칙)에 따른 영어 규칙성 효과(regularity effect)가 단어수준과 하위단어수준에서 나타나는지 알아보기 위해 단어명명과제, 각운판단과제, 음소제거과제를 진행하였다. 전체 단어수준(whole word level)에서의 규칙 양상을 살펴보기 위해, [1] 영어단어명명과제(English word naming task)를 사용하였고, 단어 단위보다 하위 단계에서의 규칙성 효과를 알아보기 위해 [2] 라임판단 과제(rhyme judgement task)와 음소수준(phoneme level)에서의 과제인 [3] 음소탈락과제(phoneme deletion task)를 사용하였다. 실험 참가자들은 세 종류의 과제를 모두 수행하였고, 총 43명의 후기 이중언어화자가 실험에 참가하였다. 실험결과, 세 과제 모두에서 규칙성 효과가 나타나 한국어-영어 이중언어화자가 영어(L2) 단어 처리 시 GPC 규칙을 적극적으로 활용하고 있다는 사실을 확인하였다. 사후분석으로써 세 과제 사이의 상관분석을 진행한 결과, 단어명명과제와 라임판단과제 간 상관이 가장 높게 나타났다. 비록 영어 모국어 화자의 이전 연구결과와는 달리 라임판단과제와 단어읽기과제 간 상관이 높게 나타났지만, 이는 실험 참가자의 L2 능숙도가 모국어화자만큼 높지 않았기 때문인 것으로 보인다. 본 연구는 후기 한국어-영어 이중언어화자가 영어 GPC 규칙을 사용하여 영어단어읽기 처리를 하고 있음을 확인하였다.

한국어 단모음의 음성학적 기반연구 (A Fundamental Phonetic Investigation of Korean Monophthongs)

  • 문승재
    • 대한음성학회지:말소리
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    • 제62호
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate and quantitatively describe the acoustic characteristics of current Korean monophthongs. Recordings were made of 33 men and 27 women producing the vowels /i, e, ${\epsilon}$, a, ${\partial}$, o, u, i/ in a carrier phrase "This character is ___." A listening test was conducted in which 19 participants judged each vowel. F1, F2, and F3 were measured from the vowels judged as intended vowels by more than 17 people from the listening test. Analysis of formant data shows some interesting results including the undeniable confirmation of the 7-vowel system in modern Korean. It turns out that quite different sounding Korean vowels and English vowels happen to have very similar formant measurements. Also the difference between "citation-form reading" vs. "natural utterance reading" is discussed.

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아동의 학습능력 저해요인으로서의 학대경험에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Relationship of Child Abuse to Academic Achievement)

  • 김미숙;박명숙
    • 아동학회지
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    • 제25권5호
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2004
  • Three groups of maltreated Korean children (Grades 1 through 3) drawn from Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies were compared to a control group of nonmaltreated children on academic achievement as measured by standardized tests of reading, spelling, arithmetic, and writing. Findings were that maltreated children performed significantly below their nonmaltreated children on the standardized tests, in particular in arithmetic. In first grade, maltreated children did not perform below nonmaltreated children on writing and reading, but maltreated children gradually declined in academic performance in these skills. The older, grade 3, children showed more serious academic problems than the younger children (Grades 1 and 2) on four academic skills. This suggests that early experience of child abuse have a strong affect on children's academic achievement.

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일반학생과 수·과학 영재들의 영어 읽기과정에서의 메타인지 읽기전략 사용 차이에 관한 연구 (A Study on Differences of Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategy Use in English Reading among General Learners, Gifted Learners in Science and Mathematics)

  • 방준
    • 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국콘텐츠학회 2018년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.245-246
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    • 2018
  • 본 연구는 일반학생과, 수 과학 영재학생의 영어읽기에서의 메타인지 읽기전략의 차이를 알아보는데 목적이 있다. 일반학생 98명, 과학영재 79명, 수학영재 86명이 본 연구에 참여하였다. 이들의 메타인지 읽기전략을 알아보기 위해 MARSI설문지를 사용하였고, 그 자료는 one-way ANOVA로 분석하였다. 그 결과 수학과 과학영재 사이의 영어읽기 과정 중 메타인지 읽기전략의 사용에서는 통계적으로 유의미한 차이는 보이지 않았지만, 수 과학 영재학생들과 일반 학생들 사이의 메타인지 읽기전략사용에서는 통계적으로 유의미한 차이를 보였다.

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Effective Learning Tasks and Activities to Improve EFL Listening Comprehension

  • Im, Byung-Bin
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제6호
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2000
  • Listening comprehension is an integrative and creative process of interaction through which listeners receive speakers' production of linguistic or non-linguistic knowledge. Compared with reading comprehension, it may arouse difficulties and thus impose more burdens on foreign learners. The Audio-Lingual Method focused primarily on speaking. Mimicry, repetition, rote memory, and transformation drills actually interfered with listening comprehension. So learners lost interest and were not highly motivated. Improving listening comprehension requires continual attentiveness and interest. Listening skill can be extended systematically only when students are frequently exposed to a wide range of listening materials with an affective, cultural, social, and psycholinguistic approach. Therefore, teachers should help students learn how to comprehend intactly the overall meaning of intended messages. The literature on teaching listening skill suggests various useful activities: TPR, dictation, role playing, singing, picture recognition, completion, prediction, seeking specific information, summarizing, labeling, humor, jokes, cartoons, media, and so on. Practical classroom teaching necessitates a systematic procedure in which students should take part in meaningful tasks/activities. In addition to this, learners must practice listening comprehension trough a self-study process.

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노래의 활용이 초등학교 영어의 운율습득에 미친 효과 연구 - 초분절음을 중심으로 - (The Role of Songs for the Acquisition of English Prosody in Elementary School - Centering on suprasegmentals -)

  • 홍경숙
    • 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한음성학회 2004년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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    • pp.251-255
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of using songs for the acquisition of English Prosody in elementary school. For the purpose, 8 classes were chosen to teach songs for four months, and listening tests and reading test were performed for analyzing the effect. The result is as follows : (1) The result of listening test showed that the average scores of the experimental classes were higher than those of comparative classes, and it was more effective in lower grades than in upper grades. (2) In pronunciation tests, the pronunciations of experimental classes were more similar to native speaker's pronunciation that those of comparative classes in intonation, lexical stress and sentence stress. (3) Singing songs repeatedly is more important than learning many songs. It means that to give the chances to sing as many times as possible is advisable for teaching pronunciation.

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한국어와 영어 음절의 지속시간에 대한 비교연구 -음절체와 각운을 중심으로- (Duration of bodies and rhymes in Korean and English syllables)

  • 백은아;노동우;정옥란;강수균
    • 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한음성학회 2003년도 10월 학술대회지
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    • pp.169-172
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to provide preliminary data on the acoustical differences of one syllable words spoken by speakers with different language backgrounds. 20 native speakers of Korean and English were asked to read 7 one-syllable words written in their native language. The phonetic and phonemic characteristics of 7 words were similar between two languages. The ratio of duration of the body (onset+nucleus) and the rhyme(nucleus+coda) relative to the duration of each syllable were calculated using CSL (Computerized Speech Laboratory). The results corresponds to the body-coda structure of the Korean syllable which is supported by the recent experimental psychological studies. More acoustic studies on the Korean syllable structure are required to establish clinical foundation for the phonological awareness and the reading intervention programs.

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