• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2016

Twenty five English native speakers with two different L2 experienced groups and nineteen native Koreans heard both Korean word-initial nasals (/m/ and /n/) in three vowel contexts (low, mid, and high) produced by a native Korean speaker. The experiment examined the hypothesis that Korean nasals are more likely to be judged or perceived correctly by the L2-experienced English learners of Korean than the unexperienced counterparts. The result showed that L2 experienced group was more sensitive to effects of vowel height in judging the Korean nasals in which the perception of nasals before the high vowels was more subject to it. In addition, place of nasal articulation causes asymmetry relations - bilabial nasal /m/ is more likely to be perceived as plosives rather than alveolar nasal /n/. The study found that the L2 experience has a somewhat limited role in perceiving the nasals correctly in the word-initial position, especially before the high vowels, in that even the L2 experienced English subjects have difficulty in identifying the Korean nasals correctly in this environment. Nevertheless, low L2 proficiency might be accounted for the difficulty in the bilabial nasal identification observed by the L2 experienced group.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.407-415
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• 2015

오프라인 English Zone이란 교실 내에서 학습자가 영어로 말하고 듣고, 알고 싶은 단어나 내용을 스스로 찾고 연습하고 그 결과를 확인할 수 있도록 만든 물리적 환경을 말한다. 그러나 제한적이고 인위적 환경에 의존할 수밖에 없는 오프라인의 English Zone은 쇼핑 존, 레스토랑 존, 병원 존 등의 소규모 영어 마을처럼 인위적인 공간을 설정하여 학생들이 자발적으로 Role Play를 체험할 수 있는 환경을 제공해야 하는 극히 제한적인 운영이 될 수밖에 없다. 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 오프라인에서의 English Zone 프로그램을 활용한 학습방법이 가지고 있는 환경적인 제한성의 문제점을 분석하고 유비쿼터스 개념에 기초하여 멀티미디어 도구 활용, 무선 인터넷 활용과 SNS를 활용한 온라인 English Zone 프로그램의 활용 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권1호
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• pp.135-150
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• 2018

Focusing on the hermeneutic instability of a key word of Paradise Lost, "wander," this study attempts to situate John Milton's early modern epic in the longue $dur{\acute{e}}e$ historical transition from seignorial to capitalist mode of production, especially the displacement and reorganization of producer population, a corollary of early phase of modernization. The historic experience of vagrancy and its normalization, and the concomitant shift of the primary human sociability from given to voluntary bonds, I suggest, shape and inform Milton's early modern rewriting of the Biblical story of the fall and his revising of the heroic epic romance into a plebeian romance of a wandering, companionate couple. While building on the critical consensus on this poem's deliberate distancing from the tradition of classical epic and chivalric romance, this essay argues that Milton re-appropriates and re-channels the aspirational aspect of chivalric wandering, or mobility, for his plebeian heroes, a companionate conjugal couple. The hermeneutic instability of the word wander, this essay suggests, captures the duality of the historic experience of vagrancy, both the tragic experience of displacement and the liberational and uplifting dimension of that experience.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.237-254
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• 2011

This study investigated Korean university students' perceptions of NESTs (Native English Speaking Teachers) and NNESTs (Non-native English Speaking Teachers) in TEE (Teaching English through English) courses to examine strengths and weaknesses of NESTs and NNESTs. 100 university students who had an experience in taking TEE courses with both NESTs and NNESTs answered the questionnaire in which they were asked to answer questions of general area, language skills, affective areas, and teaching behaviors. 20 students out of them were also interviewed to consolidate the data. The results revealed that except for speaking ability, students did not express a strong preference for NESTs and they did have a preference in learning some specific skills. In terms of affective areas, students had a preference for NNESTs. In addition, there were differences in teaching behaviors of NESTs and NNESTs. These findings have valuable implications for NNESTs to improve their speaking proficiency: analyzing and participating in discourses, and monitoring teaching practice through videotaping.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2003

This paper describes a video exchange project between English classes in South Korea and in Japan. Korean and Japanese students worked in groups to make short videos in English which were then exchanged. After viewing their counterparts' videos, students e-mailed feedback to each other. This project was the third video exchange project between Korean and Japanese university students since 2001. However, it was the first time to try it with three universities together. Students from the different universities tried to compete with each other. It provided a better chance for students to improve their English. Most students expressed the importance of the video exchange project in developing their English proficiency and enabling them to use English in an international context. Many students agreed that the project was an educational, enjoyable and worthwhile experience.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.442-452
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• 2014

본고는 한국교육고용 패널(KEEP) 1차 및 7차 자료를 이용하여 212명의 고3 때의 특성(수능성취도 포함), 대학 재학 중 영어전용 전공강좌 수강경험, 취업 실태(7차 자료)와의 관계를 살펴보았다. 분석결과, 대학에서의 전공과목 영어 수업 수강 여부, 영어전용 수업이해도를 예측하는데 사용된 고3 변수인 직업결정여부, 영어사교육경험여부, 영어흥미, 수능영어성취도 중 통계적으로 유의한 변수는 없었다. 대학에서의 경험(해외여행, 교수멘토링, 수업태도, 영어 공부시간)은 영어전용 전공강좌 선택과 관련이 없었으나, 영어전용 전공과목 수업이해도에 있어서 남학생에 비하여 여학생인 경우가 통계적으로 유의하게 높게 나타났다. 영어강의 수업이해도는 영어강의 수강회수와 정적상관이 있었으며, 수업의 유용성과 수업이해도는 교수의 영어사용빈도와 정적인 관계가 있었다. 진로결정유형(취업, 대학원진학/ 유학, 기타)과 영어전용 전공과목 수강여부와의 관계는 통계적으로 유의하였으나, 수업이해도와의 관계는 유의하지 않았다. 또한 영어전용 수업경험과 고용상태와의 관계는 통계적으로 유의하지 않았다.

• 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.

• 영어영문학
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.193-209
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• 2014

Writers in England's colonies and former colonies have long struggled with the advantages and disadvantages of employing the language of the colonizer for their creative work, an issue that today reaches beyond the older imperial trade routes in the era of "global English." Creative writers in widely disparate locations are now using global English to their advantage, with what can be described as post-postcolonial strategies. This essay explores the politics of global English, beginning with a satiric dictionary of "Strine" (Australian English) from 1965, and then looking back at the mid-1960s debate at Makerere University between Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe, in which Achebe famously asserted the importance of remaking English for hi own purposes. The essay then discusses early linguistic experiments by Rudyard Kipling, who became the world's first truly global writer in the 1880s and 1890s and developed a range of strategies for conveying local experience to a global audience. The essay then turns to two contemporary examples: a comic pastiche of Kipling-and of Kiplingese-by the contemporary Tibetan writer Jamyang Norbu, who deploys "Babu English" and the legacy of British rule against Chinese encroachment in Tibet; and, finally, the Korean-American internet group Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, who interweave African-American English with North Korean political rhetoric to hilariously subversive effect.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 안드로이드 플랫폼 기반에서 영어 프리젠테이션 학습을 위한 모바일 콘텐츠 제작 및 모바일 학습시스템을 개발하였다. 첫째, 안드로이드 플랫폼에서 영어 학습용 콘텐츠를 구동할 수 있게 해주는 콘텐츠 전송시스템을 포함하는 어플리케이션의 개발하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 어플리케이션은 언어 선택, 학습 모드 선택, 재생, 퀴즈, 사전, 정지 또는 일지정지 그리고 이전 또는 다음 화면으로 이동하는 기능을 제공한다. 둘째, 영어 프리젠테이션 학습을 위한 콘텐츠의 제작하였다. 영어 프리젠테이션 학습을 위한 콘텐츠는 크게 2개의 part(기본 파트 그리고 고급 파트)로 구성되며, Part 1과 Part 2 각각은 9개의 unit 으로 구성되어 총 18개 unit으로 구성되고, 각 unit 별 2-5개의 chapter로 구성되어 총 51개의 chapter로 구성되었다. 본 연구에서 개발한 시스템을 사용해보도록 한 후 사용자가 인지하는 사용자 인터페이스(UI) 만족도와 학습 만족도를 평가를 실시하였다. UI 만족도에 대한 설문 분석 결과, 응답자의 85%가 보통 수준 이상 만족하는 것으로 나타났으며, 학습 만족도에 대한 설문 분석결과, 응답자의 95%가 보통 수준 이상으로 만족하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.263-291
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• 2003

This paper is to help the students in elementary schools develop and improve their English listening and speaking skills by presenting effective teaching and learning techniques using puppetry. It is absolutely obvious that listening and speaking are very important skills for most EFL students. Using puppets in the classroom is a creative English teaching technique which can involve authentic, communicative language situations. Moreover, puppets appeal to children and can aid in lowering affective filters thereby creating a more comfortable learning environment. The study clearly showed that using puppets is feasible and enjoyable in elementary English classes. However, caution must be exercised in drawing and generalizing conclusions from this experience. The results of the experiment are as follows: First, using puppetry in the English class was found to have positive influence on students' affective domains (interst, attitude). Second, using puppets in the English classes was found to be efficient for improving students' English listening and speaking skills. Third, appropriate materials should be selected and well thought-out plans should be made to be successful English class using puppetry. Perhaps the most interesting line of future research is to use qualitative research to examine the effect of this technique on the teacher variable. Further research is recommended, especially on using puppetry for speaking proficiency and creating affectively comfortable learning atmospheres.