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미국 거주 한국인의 식생활 적응에 영향을 미치는 요인 및 식습관 변화 (Factors of Food Adaptation and Changes of Food Habit on Koreans Residing in America)

  • 박은숙
    • 한국식생활문화학회지
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    • 제12권5호
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    • pp.519-529
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors of food adaptation and the changes of food habit on Koreans residing in America. The subject was 89 Koreans residing in Knoxville, TN. The survey was undertaken from October to December of 1995. Demographic characteristics, food behavior, composite adaptation score(CAS), composition of Korean and American foods in 1 day, and frequence and preference changes of foods was determined. The results were summarized as fellows : The mean CAS for all subjects was 17.6 with individual scores ranging from 9 to 23. The CAS were significantly different in residing age, American friends, English speaking ability, eat with Koreans, American food experience before, American food experience now, breakfast type in weekday, breakfast type in weekday, and self-food habits change at p<0.05. No significant differences in CAS could be attributed to sex, marital status, children, and job. Food consumption patterns for breakfast was Korean style 58%, American style 39.3%. For lunch both style was almost same, and for supper Korean style was 78.2%. The intake of food most frequent was rice, and then Kimchee. The preference of Korean foods was increased, though the frequence was decreased. The preference and frequence of American foods were increased respectively.

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Korean Children's Knowledge of Reciprocal Sentences with Active and Stative Verbs

  • Kim, Mee-Sook
    • 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.127-139
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    • 2005
  • In this paper I investigate whether Korean-speaking children know the basic meaning of reciprocal anaphors like each other. I further examine whether they have knowledge of subtle differences in the interpretations of such anaphors depending on the two types of verbs. Fiengo and Lasnik (1973) pointed out a contrast between reciprocal sentences with active verbs and stative verbs. For example, a sentence with an active verb like The men in the room are hitting each other, has both a strong reciprocal reading (i.e., everyone of them in the room is hitting every other one) and a weak reciprocal reading (i.e., certain pairs of men are not engaged in the action of hitting each other). In contrast, a sentence with a stative verb like The men in the room know each other allows only a strong reciprocal reading (i.e., everyone of them know every other one). 16 Korean children and 15 Korean adults were tested using the Truth Value Judgment Task methodology. The results of the present study show that like English children, Korean children know the meaning of reciprocal anaphor, and that they also know the semantic difference of reciprocal sentences with active and stative verbs. Therefore, the present study strongly supports the claim that the semantic distinction of reciprocal sentences with active and stative verbs may be universal, and that children's ability of this semantic distinction might be innately given.

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Executive function and Korean children's stop production

  • Eun Jong Kong;Hyunjung Lee;Jeffrey J. Holliday
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제15권3호
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 2023
  • Previous studies have established a role for cognitive differences in explaining variability in speech processing across individuals. In the case of perceptual cue weighting in the context of a sound change, studies have produced conflicting results regarding the relationship between executive function and the use of redundant cues. The current study aimed to explore this relationship in acoustic cue weighting during speech production. Forty-one Korean-speaking children read a list of stop-initial words and completed two tests that assess executive function, i.e., Dimensional Change Card Sorting (DCCS) and digit n-back. Voice onset time (VOT) and fundamental frequency (F0) were measured in each word, and analyses were carried out to determine the extent to which children's executive function predicted their use of both informative and less informative cues to the three pairs comprising the Korean three-way stop laryngeal contrast. No evidence was found for a relationship between cognitive ability and acoustic cue weighting in production, which is at odds with previous, albeit conflicting, results for speech perception. While this result may be due to the lack of task demands in the production task used here, it nevertheless expands the empirical ground upon which future work in this area may proceed.

사물인터넷시대의 유학생의 국내대학 적응을 위한 KSL 교과과정과 ESL 교과과정 비교 (Comparison of KSL Curriculum and ESL Curriculum for Adaptation of International Students in the Internet of Things era to Domestic Universities)

  • 강현주;정세리;최장원
    • 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2021
  • 본 연구에서는 4차산업으로 인해 미래교육으로 교육들이 전화되고 있는 시대에 유학생들이 한국에 적응하여 정착시키기 위해 한국어 교육 과정의 보완이 필요하다. 유학생들이 접하는 KFL(Korean as a Foreign Language)상황에서 한국어 교육 프로그램의 유학생 적응에 대한 문화 적응 스트레스 요인 중 하나인 언어 능력 부족으로 인해 의사소통에 문제로 대학 수학에서 어려움을 겪는다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위한 영어권 국가의 ESL프로그램과 한국의 KSL프로그램을 분석하여 유학생들에게 목적을 달성하기위한 교육 목표, 교과과정, 교육방법을 설정하고 커리큘럼과 학습 과정을 수립 하고자 하였다. 따라서 한국어 교육과정 내에 있는 외국인 유학생을 위한 한국어 교육 프로그램(KSL프로그램)도 영어권 국가의 교육과정에 ESL프로그램의 정확한 목표설정과 대학졸업과 연계하는 장점을 받아들여 보완해야 한다. 또한 유학생들의 한국어 학습을 위해서 4차산업 시대에 맞는 IT를 활용한 한국어교육 통합 과정 및 관리 시스템이 필요하다.

Cognitive abilities and speakers' adaptation of a new acoustic form: A case of a /o/-raising in Seoul Korean

  • Kong, Eun Jong;Kang, Jieun
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2018
  • The vowel /o/ in Seoul Korean has been undergoing a sound change by altering the acoustic weighting of F2 and F1. Studies documented that this on-going change redefined the nature of a /o/-/u/ contrast as F2 differences rather than as F1 differences. The current study examined two cognitive factors namely executive function capacity (EF) and autistic traits, in terms of their roles in explaining who in speech community would adapt new acoustic forms of the target vowels, and who would retain the old forms. The participants, 55 college students speaking Seoul Korean, produced /o/ and /u/ vowels in isolated words; and completed three EF tasks (Digit N-Back, Stroop, and Trail-Making Task), and an Autism screening questionnaire. The relationships between speakers' cognitive task scores and their utilizations of F1 and F2 were analyzed using a series of correlation tests. Results yielded a meaningful relationship in participants' EF scores interacting with gender. Among the females, speakers with higher EF scores were better at retaining F1, which is a less informative cue for females since they utilized F2 more than they did F1 in realizing /o/ and /u/. In contrast, better EF control among male speakers was associated with more use of the new cue (F2) where males still utilized F1 as much as F2 in the production of /o/ and /u/ vowels. Taken together, individual differences in acoustic realization can be explained by individuals' cognitive abilities, and their progress in the sound change further predicts that cognitive ability influences the utilization of acoustic information which is non-primary to the speaker.

방한 외래관광객의 의류상품 구매동기와 구매행동에 관한 실증적 연구 (An Empirical Study on the Clothing Merchandise Purchase Motivation and Behavior of Foreign Visitors in South Korea)

  • 서철현;조지현
    • 한국생활과학회지
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    • 제11권4호
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    • pp.367-380
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    • 2002
  • This study tries to search and analyze empirically the clothing merchandise purchase motivation and behavior made by foreign visitors who bought clothes as tour memorials in South Korea. To make a empirical study we made survey research and evaluated 30 items for the survey of clothing purchase motivation and 25 items for the survey of the importance and satisfaction revealed at the time of purchase with the standard of Likert 5 point. We had chosen 614 sample participants including 176 English speakers, 211 Japanese speakers, and 277 Chinese speakers among those foreign tourists who had purchased clothing materials at the Dongdaemun Shopping Mall. The result of analysis is as follows : As the result of factor analysis about the clothing merchandise purchase, we had 6 factors. They are (1)impulse, (2)utility, (3)fashionableness, (4)tour commemoration (5)psychology (6)economy. As the result of cluster analysis based on the standard of selected 6 factors of clothing merchandise purchase motivation, we could divide three groups such as (1)the pursuit type of clothing merchandise purchase, (2)the pursuit type of recreation of feeling (3)the pursuit type of tour memorial. As the result of analysis on the items of purchased clothing merchandise, the highest frequency of purchase was made by T-shirt, then by the order of sweater, blouse, and aloha shirt, pants, and jacket. In regard to the importance of items related to clothing merchandise, the highest importance was made by design, then by the order of price, size, color and utility, and style. In regard to the items related to the service of shopping mall, the highest satisfaction was made by the convenience of business hour. Meanwhile, the lowest satisfaction was made by the inconvenience of fitting room, the speaking and by ability of foreign languages by sales agents.

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우리나라 선박교통제제도의 개선방안에 관한 실증연구 - 포항항을 중심으로 - (An Empirical Study on the Improvment of VTS in Korea)

  • 임을빈;문성혁
    • 한국항해학회지
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    • 제21권2호
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    • pp.47-58
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the impacts of VTS on the marine safety and users' opinion on the VTS which have been being operated in the port of Pohang for the last 3 years and is to suggest a guideline to the successful operation of VTS in the future. This study is based upon the questionnaire survey and the respondents include 236 masters/mates of merchant vessels who have visited the port of Pohang and 6 pilots who have been working in the port. From the questionnaire results, this study notes the following conclusions related to the VTS operations. (1) A few of the respondents (mainly foreigners) do not understand the entering procedure of the port and the fundamental concept of VTS. Accordingly, the more active VTS services have to be provided for the mariners. (2) It was found that themost dangerous factors in tehvicinity of the port were the floating materials, fishing nets, andillegal fishing activities inthe fairway. Therefore, the proper surveillance, stricter enforcement of Acts and the instructive education for the fishermen are required to avoid the risks. (3) A majority of the respondents agreed the VTS has contributed to the safety of vessel traffic, and they pointed out ' the assiatances in reduced visibililty conditions' is the most important task of VTS. The amount of 75.6% of the respondents answered that they have experienced the assistance from VTS more than 1 time since the system was established in the port of Pohang . Also 44.2% of the respondents considered they were able to avoid marine casualties such as collision, ramming or agrounding with the VTS assistances. (4) 49.2% of the respondents preferred the passive information services , while, 38.8% of them preferred the positive control advices in the case of encountering any potential risks. VTS iperators have to consider seriously when they provide the positive control advices of ship's course and speed. (5) A majority of the respondents confirmed that the prot and its approaches is suitable for the VTS coverge . To extend the service areas of the VTS and to improve radar detecting ability, the use of radar transponders are seen as the ideal method. (6) A minority of the respondents pointed out 'the improper orders or recommendatinos caused by the poor decision making' firstly, ' the language problem(sea-speaking in English)' secondly, as the deficiency of personal qualification. It seems, therefore, theat the personal efforts of the operators and systematic training programmes for them are necessary to solve the problems.

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