• 영어어문교육
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.109-132
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• 2003

The purpose of the present study is to explore effective ways of teaching English grammar, which is geared toward improving students' communicative competence. Grammatical competence is essential to communicative competence. Grammatical knowledge cannot be acquired unconsciously in an EFL environment such as in Korea. Therefore learners should be given grammar instruction. More importantly, they should be instructed in grammar so that they can develop their grammatical abilities which are the foundation of communicative competence. The following is proposed for the grammar instruction placing the focus on improving communicative competence. First, it is effective to explain the form, meaning and pragmatics of a grammatical rule to learners in Korean. Second, learners should be given instruction in grammatical patterns that deals with constructions and meanings together, which can enable them to produce sentences by themselves. Third, it should be taught to understand constructions and meanings on the basis of word orders. Then the following steps of grammar instruction are suggested. In the first step of grammatical instruction, students should be provided with the illustrations of grammatical structures which link communicative functions and grammar. In the second step, learners should be gotten to practice grammatical constructions repeatedly enough to use them unconsciously. Lastly, communicative activities such as description and role plays should be included in grammar instruction to integrate grammar practice and communicative language use.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.730-739
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• 2021

본 논문은 서울 시내에 위치한 4년제 H 대학에서 교양필수 영어수업을 수강 중인 신입생 중 361명을 대상으로 글로벌 역량과 영어 학습 동기의 상관관계를 검토하고, 그 결과를 토대로 대학 교양영어교육이 당면한 실천적 과제인 글로벌 역량 강화를 위해서는 어떤 영어교육이 바람직할지 그 방향에 대해 모색해보았다. 자료수집은 글로벌 역량과 영어 학습 동기에 대한 학습자의 자기인식을 묻는 설문지법을 통해 이루어졌다. 연구를 통해 영어 학습 동기와 글로벌 역량 간에 밀접한 정적 상관관계가 존재함을 확인할 수 있었고, 특히 영어 학습동기 중 통합적 동기와 글로벌 역량의 상관성이 높다는 것을 확인했다. 이에 본 논문은 통합적 동기를 강화하는 것이 글로벌 역량을 증진하기 위한 가장 효과적 방법이라는 가정 아래, '국제 공동체에 소속된 세계시민으로서 영어를 사용하는 자신의 모습'을 상상하는 LMS 활동과 온라인 국제교류활동을 실행가능한 수업활동으로 제안했다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2004년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.261-265
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to improve English communicative competence of elementary school students through an acoustic study For this purpose, this study investigates various postlexical phenomena which can be applied to utterence contents in elementary school English book and analyzes the application of postlexical phenomena through the spectrogram when native speakers and elementary school students speak English. The speech materials were seven sentences which contained various postlexical phenomena. This leads to the conclusion that knowing and pronouncing postlexical phenomena of English is needed for improving English communicative competence successfully.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.117-138
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to increase students' interest in the subject of English, which has been led by some mannerism, and to improve the students' basic scholastic ability and self-controlled problem solving, through adopting an individualized Web Based Instruction(WBI) as a concrete and practical learning method. In order to achieve this, an individualized Web Based Instruction(WBI) homepage has been developed to be applied experimentally to the field of middle school education for 8 months, and a research has been made on its effects on the students' interest in English along with the improvement of English. Two groups which showed almost the same interest were selected as a controlled group and an experimental one. Individualized Web Based Instruction was applied to the experimental group, while the controlled group was not instructed according to student ability. The controlled group was taught using CD added with the textbook. As a result of T-test, the students in the experimental group showed more improvement in communicative competence than those in the controlled group.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.19-38
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• 2010

This study surveyed L2 learners' needs for different components of communicative competence. It aimed to determine what abilities the learners strongly need to achieve communicative competence in different learning contexts. It also examined gender differences in the learners' need for phonological competence. A total of 359 students participated in this study, divided into three learner groups: high school, vocational college, and university students. The data were collected via a questionnaire, which was based on Bachman's (1990) framework of language competence. The study drew some important findings: (a) The vocational trainees expressed a stronger need for illocutionary competence than the high school students and for sociolinguistic competence than the high school and the university groups; (b) The high school and the university groups equated grammatical, textual, illocutionary, and strategic competences in their needs with lesser attention to sociolinguistic competence; (c) To the high school and the university groups, pragmatic competence was assessed higher than organizational competence; (d) Female students showed greater sensitivity to pronunciation ability than did male students. On the basis of these results, pedagogical implications are discussed, along with some helpful suggestions.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.71-90
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• 2003

The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent notions of communicative competence, especially as it is presented in Korean EFL education. Communicative competence has been modified and reinterpreted several times since the term was introduced by Hymes (1970). Paulston (1974) and Savignon (1983) focus on social interaction while Canale and Swain (1980) offer four categories of communicative competence: grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence. In addition, Tarone and Yule (1989) can be viewed as a systematic and comprehensive concept as well as a multi-dimensional mode (Bachman, 1990). Brown (2000) presents linguistic and functional aspects and Savignon's (1983) sociolinguistic competence has been transformed into sociocultural competence (Savignon, 2001). This study shows which aspects of Korean EFL education have been changed' and what needs to be accomplished for enhancing student's communicative competence.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.561-568
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• 2022

This study investigated how pre-service English teachers perceive the effects of machine teaching on their English writing competence. 35 Korean students who are majoring in English education participated in this study. The participants used machine translators for one of the required courses related to English composition. A survey and focus group interview were conducted at the end of the course. They were asked to answer to what degree they perceive the effects of machine translators on their writing in terms of lexical, sentential, and discourse levels. Furthermore, their perspectives on the effects of machine translation on English teaching including limitations of machine translators, were interviewed in more detail. The results show that the participants perceive machine translators quite positively in terms of improving their writing competence, but they also point out some critical limitations of machine translators. These findings have some pedagogical implications for English writing course instructors, English teacher educators, and program developers.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2012

This study aims to propose using English reading strategies to enhance Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) for EFL learners. The study recruited college-level participants who were enrolled in a general English reading course (N=30) and administrated the surveys with a Repeated Measures Design (RMD). In the survey, an intercultural sensitivity scale and metacognitive reading strategies inventory were conducted for comparison. During the instruction, participants were asked to use the R.I.D.E.R. (i.e. Read, Image, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat) strategy for visualization of text, which is aimed at facilitating the use of metacognitive reading strategies. In the results, participants showed a statistically significant increase both in the intercultural sensitivity level and the use of metacognitive reading strategies after the practice of R.I.D.E.R for one semester. Further analysis was appended to the results by the correlation and regression analysis, and proposed that participants benefit their development of intercultural sensitivity from the use of metacognitive reading strategies. Therefore, the study suggests that implementing metacognitive reading strategies facilitates college EFL readers to increase their cultural sensitivity, which empowers ICC through English reading (176words).

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.91-100
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• 2019

본 연구의 목적은 글로벌 비즈니스 커뮤니케이션 역량 배양을 위한 교육과정을 개발할 때 교육내용 선정을 위한 기초자료를 제공함을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 우선적으로 글로벌 역량의 하위요소에 대한 기존 연구를 검토하여 하위 역량요소를 수정, 보완하여 글로벌 비즈니스 커뮤니케이션 역량의 하위요소를 선정하였다. 선정된 글로벌 비즈니스 커뮤니케이션 역량의 하위요소의 중요도에 대해 20개 기업체 근무자 148명을 대상으로 인식 조사를 실시하였다. 그 결과 언어 능력인 영어 이메일 작성, 영어 자료 및 문서 읽고 이해, 전화영어, 비즈니스 영어회화, 사회언어적 능력인 타문화에 대한 이해, 전략적 능력인 커뮤니케이션 스킬, 글로벌 비즈니스 이해 능력인 비즈니스 지식이 비교적 높은 중요도를 보였다. 따라서 글로벌 비즈니스 커뮤니케이션 역량 배양을 위한 교육내용을 선정할 때 우선적으로 이들 요소를 포함시키는 것이 바람직하다는 결론을 내렸다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.248-253
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• 2021

The aim of this study is to understand how English textbooks in Korea reflect English education policies for improving the English language learners' cultural ability. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, the method of analyzing English textbooks was used because English textbooks are an important tool that most specifically reflects the English policy of a country. This study analyzed a total of 15 English textbooks currently used in South Korea. We analyzed nouns/pronouns related to culture presented in the reading section included in each unit, and compared cultural diversity and cultural identity included in English textbooks in Korea. As a result, it was found that South Korea has tried to cultivate Korean learners' cultural competence through English education and introduced their cultural pride to Western culture to realize the goal of strengthening global capabilities.