• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.127-152
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• 2007

Recently, the number of students to choose to study in Australia has been increasing significantly. The purpose of this study is to examine how Korean primary school children perceive their own English language learning and cultural adaptation in Australia. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 34 Korean children aged 8-13 who were attending primary schools in Brisbane, Queensland. The study results show that they made diverse efforts to learn English language and culture in Australia, such as making English-speaking friends, watching TV/video/DVD, reading English books, and studying with a foreign tutor. Their English listening and writing abilities were thought to be improved most, followed by speaking, reading and cultural understanding after studying in Australia. The subjects were mostly satisfied with their study and life in Australia but they had difficulties with communicating in English, homesickness, foods, weather, insects, and discrimination. In particular, they had problems with understanding classes conducted all in English and participating in the classroom activities due to their low level of English ability and understanding of Australian classroom culture. The findings of this study have pedagogical implications for educators both in Australia and Korea.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.155-176
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• 2007

An attempt to investigate the effect of gender differences on Korean students' EFL learning orientation was made. To explain a Korean EFL learning context, three criteria (cultural distance between the target country and the host country, communicative needs of the TL, the status of the TL in the host country) are adopted. Moreover, as a contrastive FL learning context from the Imposed FL learning context, a FL learning context where there is a substantial cultural distance from the TL community, communication needs of the TL do not exist, and the TL enjoys a special educational and socioeconomic status in the host country, a concept of an Integrative FL learning context is newly brought up in this paper. As the result of a questionnaire conducted in four different high schools, female learners can be claimed to be more internalized about academic and socioeconomic benefits the TL entails for their social advancement and overcoming inequality between men and women in society, albeit insignificant numerical data.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2022

이 연구의 목적은 S 대학교 교양 필수 과목 중 하나인 교양 영어의 효과적인 수업을 제안하고 학습효과에 대해 분석하고자 한다. 이 과목은 1학년 전공이 다른 학생들을 대상으로 하고 학습 목표는 일상적인 상황에서 학생들의 영어 능력, 특히 문장을 문법적 요소로 분석하여 읽기 능력을 향상시키는 데 있다. 본 논문은 코로나 시대에 교양 영어 수업을 어떻게 융합 수업 형태로 진행하여 학생들의 학습동기를 유발하고 학습효과를 낼 수 있는지 고찰해 본 것이다. 이 융합 수업의 형태는 첫째, 강의 영상, 둘째, Webex 실시간 비대면 수업, 셋째, 대면 수업이다. 이 연구에서는 실제 한 학기 동안 이루어졌던 수업 중 1차시 수업의 수업 절차를 예시로 제시하였다. 연구자는 구체적으로 수업전 수강 설문지를 조사하여 그 결과를 통해 학생들의 영어 실력과 학습자의 특성 등을 파악하여 수업을 진행하였다. 그리고 수강 후 설문지를 30개 항목으로 조사하여 그 결과를 분석하였다. 구체적으로 강의 구성에 대한 만족도, 강의 영상에 대한 만족도, 대면 수업에 대한 만족도, 학생들과의 상호작용, 학습효과 등에 관한 결과를 분석하였다. 이 수업 제안은 융합 형태의 학습자 중심의 모형이다.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.699-710
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• 2007

The study purposes to explore the effects of individual characteristics and home environments of children on their bilingual language aquisition, that is, to examine whether their English language competency is different from their Korean language competency depending on those variables. Thus English or Korean language competency of children who had had early exposure in English learning were studied in terms of child's individual characteristics such as age, gender, exposure period to English, intelligence, and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries, and home environments such as parental age, educational level, income level, their perceived English competency, their perceived significance of English and Korean language, and the frequency of using English at home. 72 children who went to English kindergarten were tested with Peabody Pictures Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) in Korean version and in English version respectively. The results show that child's intelligence and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries influence their Korean language competency. Also child's age, exposure period to English and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries influence their English language competency. Moreover their mother's educational background, father's English fluency, mothers' English fluency, and the frequency of using English at home influence child's English language competency, whereas any variables did not influence child's Korean language competency. Accordingly, child's English and Korean language competencies are related to each other.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.139-160
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• 2011

This study examines correlations between affective variables and English learners' achievement in native teachers' classes. Specifically, it aims to study the relationships among Korean college students' English learning motivation, anxiety, WTC (willingness to communicate) and their English achievement scores. For the purpose, the questionnaire surveys were conducted, and the students' English scores were analyzed and compared. The participants were 216 university students taking the general English courses as a requirement for graduation. The results indicated that although the students had high level motivation to learn English, especially for social reasons, their WTC in and outside the classroom was low. Also, unlike the previous studies on foreign language anxiety, their anxiety level was not significant. Anxiety and motivation were negatively correlated; WTC and motivation were positively correlated. However, according to the regression analysis, the explanatory power of the three affective variables was not significant for the students' achievement scores. Several possible reasons and some pedagogical implications are provided in the conclusion.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.171-198
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• 2009

The current study explored a pedagogical possibility of utilizing magic as a source of communicative tasks for young learners in developing their English speaking proficiency. Fifteen primary school students participated in the study, which consisted of a 17-week period of task-based English instruction and data collection. The participants were instructed to accomplish various types of magic task through collaborative group interaction. The data collected for the study pertained to the students' linguistic outputs, interactions in group and attitudes to English learning. They were analyzed for how magic tasks affect the students' English proficiency developments and group interactions. The study results suggested the significant improvement in the students' English speaking proficiencies. They revealed that magic tasks contributed to a) enhancing the motivation to speak in English, b) stimulating the creative and problem-solving processes, and c) providing the sufficient opportunity to repeat and internalize the target expressions. The study results also indicated that the students' satisfaction with their group members and tasks seemed to have positive influences on their interactions in group and English proficiency development. Further discussion and pedagogical implications are provided as well as the study limitations.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.43-54
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to examine temporal structures of English words beginning with an /s/ plus stop sequence through production experiments with native speakers of Korean learning English and native speakers of English. According to the results of our production experiment, both a beginner and an advanced group of Korean English learners produced /s/ shorter than a following stop, while the opposite pattern was observed in English native speakers' production. An advanced group of Korean English learners were good at producing a stop after /s/ as unaspirated, but their production of a stop following /s/ was different from English native speakers' production in that the closure duration of the stop was much longer.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2018

The current study aimed to investigate the transfer of English word stress rules to the production of Korean trisyllabic words by L1 English learners of Korean. It compared English and Korean speakers' productions of seven Korean words from the corpus L2KSC (Rhee et al., 2005). To this end, it analyzed the syllable duration, intensity, and pitch. The results showed that English and Korean speakers' pronunciations differed markedly in duration and intensity. English learners produced word-initial syllables of greater intensity than Korean speakers, while Korean speakers produced word-final syllables of longer duration than English learners. However, these differences between the two speaker groups were not related to the expected L1 transfer. The tonal patterns produced by English and Korean speakers were similar, reflecting L1 English speakers' learning of the L2 Korean prosodic system.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.95-108
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• 2009

One of the learning difficulties for Korean learners of English is the intonation of English focused yes/no questions. Focused words in English yes/no questions are realized as low pitch accents which contrast with high pitch accents in Korean counterparts. In order to improve Korean students' intonation, direct and metalinguistic explanations on the intonation of English focused yes/no questions were given to Korean learners of English. In pre-tests and post-tests, students' perceptions on the target items were measured. The study results showed that phonetic explanation using intonation contour enhanced students' perception on English intonation. With respect to the position of focused words, sentence initial and medial focused questions were more difficult than sentence final focused questions. The perception was most improved in sentence initial focused questions. The study showed the immediate effects of the explicit instruction on perceptions of English intonation.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2018

본 연구는 '흥미'와 '자기결정성 이론' 이라는 동기 이론을 체계적으로 접목한 초등 영어 e-Learning 시스템(www.englishbuddy.kr)을 개발하고, 이를 3,100개 학원에서 적용해 본 후 실제로 학습자의 내적 동기가 향상되었는가를 측정한 것이다. 동기 전략이 적용된 이러닝 시스템으로 학습한 학습자 328명과 다른 영어 학습 프로그램 학습자 150명의 설문지 조사 분석 결과, 동기 전략이 적용된 이 러닝 시스템이 학습자의 '흥미'와 '심리적 욕구'를 만족시키고 있다는 것이 밝혀짐으로써 '학습자의 동기를 높이는 동기 전략'이 구체화되었다. 본 연구를 통해 e-Learning 환경에서 학습자의 동기가 높아지는 특징이 명확해짐으로써, e-Learning 학습을 발전시키고, 또한 '흥미'와 '자기결정성 이론' 이라는 동기 이론을 체계적으로 접목한 e-Learning 시스템을 실제로 구축하고, 3,100개 학원, 16,000명 학습자에게 적용시켜 본 매우 실증적인 연구라는 점에서 그 연구 의의가 있다 하겠다.