• 인지과학
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.125-146
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• 2015

본 연구는 초등학교 5학년 학생들을 대상으로 한국어 음운인식이 영어 음운인식에 기여하는지의 여부와, 한국어와 영어의 음운인식이 한글과 영어 읽기 및 쓰기와 관련이 되는지를 살펴보았다. 그 결과, 어휘력과 연령을 통제한 후에 한국어 음운인식은 영어 음운인식의 변량을 유의하게 설명하였다. 구체적으로 한국어 음절과 음소인식은 영어 음절인식을 예측하였고, 한국어 음소인식은 영어 음소인식을 예측하였다. 연령과 어휘력을 통제한 후에 영어 음소인식은 영어와 한글의 읽기와 받아쓰기의 변량을 유의하게 설명하였다. 또한 한국어 음절인식이 한글읽기를 설명하였으며, 영어 음절인식은 한글 받아쓰기를 설명하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 음운인식은 상위언어적 기술(metalinguistic skill)로 한국어에서 영어로 언어 간 전이되는 것을 시사한다. 또한 음소인식이 영어의 읽기와 쓰기에 중요하지만, 음소와 음절인식이 한글의 읽기와 쓰기에 중요한 것을 시사한다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.255-272
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• 2011

As the demand of English education is increasing, the demand for Native English speaking teachers (NEST) is rising, especially in Asian countries. However, due to the low number of NEST, the Korean government is suggesting that Filipino Women be used as English teachers as an alternative. This study aims to answer three questions: (1) are Filipino women in Korea qualified to teach English based on the error analysis of their written essays? (2) what are the linguistic features found in their diagnostic essays? and (3) is their written English better than Korean college students' written English based on the comparison of the two groups? The findings from the Filipino participants show the most frequently occurring errors are related to punctuation usage (commas and hyphens), vocabulary (word choice), verb usage, redundancy, and even as basic as capitalization usage. The results from the comparison of the two groups show that the percentage of the Filipino participants' written error was 14% while the percentage of the Korean participants was 17%. The findings would give us some ideas on the qualification of Filipino women in Korea as English teachers.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1-24
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• 2006

This study investigated differences in beliefs about English learning of 286 EFL college students and 52 English teachers in Korea. Data was collected using Horwitz's Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory and compared between students and teachers in beliefs. To address the research questions, the data were analyzed through descriptive statistics including frequencies, factor analysis, MANOVA, ANOVA, t-test, and reliability coefficients. The results showed four factors in student beliefs: Difficulty of learning English, nature of learning English, importance of correctness in learning English, and motivation and perceived importance of learning English. Clear differences were found in students and teachers' beliefs in English learning aptitude and importance of translation, error correction, and grammar rules. A few belief differences were also identified between Koreans and native-speaking English teachers related to the importance of vocabulary learning, pronunciation, and cultural knowledge. The findings of the study indicated that background variables such as gender and major field of study have an effect on student beliefs about L2 learning. The present study also provided pedagogical considerations to reduce mismatch between students and teachers beliefs and to improve the L2 planning and instruction.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.193-206
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• 2011

The purpose of the study is to examine the use of emotion vocabulary by Korean English learners. Three basic emotion fields, pleasure, anger, and fear were selected to elicit the participants' responses. L1 English speakers' data was also collected for comparison. The major results are as follows. First, English learners responded with various inappropriate verb forms like I feel~, I am~ while the majority of English native speaking teachers responded with subjunctive forms like I would feel~. In addition, L2 English learners used mostly simple and coordination sentences. Second, the lexical richness, measured through type/token ratio, was higher in English L1 data than in English L2 data. The proportion of emotion lemmas reflects the lexical richness or the diversity of the emotion words. Lastly, L2 English learners' responses focused on a few typical adjectives like happy, angry and scared. This structural and semantic distinctiveness of Korean English learners' emotion words was discussed from pedagogical perspectives.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.157-175
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to compare learners' view on Korean and native teachers of English with regard to competence of teaching skills. A total of 166 high school students attending the same high school in Korea participated in a questionnaire survey. The students were asked a series of questions about their five Korean teachers of English and three natives. The analysis of the results indicates that the learners believed Korean English teachers would be better in teaching vocabulary, grammar and reading than native English teachers. The learners answered native English teachers would be better in teaching speaking, listening, and writing. In the areas of the accuracy of classroom language, the level of teacher-centeredness, and the amount of cultural information given in a classroom, there were no significant differences in the learners' responses between Korea and native teacher of English. By recognizing the differences of the learners' views on two different types of ELT teachers, we suggest that it would be beneficial for learners if we would utilize their views in designing and administrating a team-teaching program.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.1-25
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• 2011

This research primarily aimed to investigate proficient and less proficient EFL readers' awareness and experiences about learning to read and reading in English. The secondary purpose was to explore the participants' reading strategies, and to discover how the genres of English texts influence their reading processing behaviors. The participants consisted of four college students in engineering aged 21-25 years. Three data sources were employed: questionnaires, interviews, and think-alouds. The findings revealed that: (1) the proficient EFL readers judged themselves to be good readers, while the less proficient EFL readers judged themselves to be fair readers; (2) unknown vocabulary was perceived to be the major impediment to reading comprehension; the think-aloud data, however, demonstrated that unknown vocabulary did not significantly interfere with their reading comprehension; (3) regardless of the genre of the text, the participants employed similar reading strategies; (4) the participants were more likely to tolerate ambiguity and predict the content when reading the narrative text than the expository text; (5) there was no set of strategies that distinguished proficient EFL readers from less proficient EFL readers; and (6) when identifying problems, the proficient EFL readers used fix-up strategies more effectively and were better able to provide satisfactory solutions than their counterparts. Pedagogical implications for EFL reading instruction are discussed.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.242-251
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• 2017

본 연구는 북한의 수재양성 기관인 제1중학교의 영어교과서를 코퍼스로 구축한 후, 이를 분석하여 언어적 특징을 파악한 연구이다. 그동안 북한의 일반중학교의 영어교과서의 특징들을 파악한 연구는 많았지만, 북한의 수재교육기관인 제1중학교 영어교과서에 대한 연구는 부족했다. 이를 위하여 북한자료센터에서 입수한 제1중학교 1학년, 2학년, 4학년, 6학년 영어 교과서 구성 체계를 살펴보고, 코퍼스를 구축한 후, 워드스미스 툴스 7.0을 활용하여 제1중학교 영어 교과서의 언어적인 특징과 고빈도 내용어를 분석하였다. 기본적인 통계 정보를 살펴본 결과, 학년의 위계에 따라 어휘 수가 증가하지는 않았으나 어휘다양성은 고학년으로 갈수록 순차적으로 높아지는 경향성이 발견되었다. 한편 학년별 고빈도 내용어의 분포를 살펴본 결과, 각 학년별 교과서에 수록된 지문의 주제에 따라 학년별로 큰 차이를 보였다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2000

This study compared the English and the Korean receptive competency of bilingual children with that of English and Korean monolingual children, respectively. The relation between English and Korean receptive competency of bilingual children was examined by age and gender. Subjects were 27 bilingual, 30 Korean monolingual, 24 English monolingual children. They were administered the revised form of the Peabody Pictures Vocabulary Test in Korean and English versions. Results show that bilingual children's Korean receptive competency is lower than those who spoke only Korean, and bilingual children's English receptive competency was a little lower than those who spoke only English, but the difference narrowerd with age. The relation between Korean and English competency in bilingual children was negative in 4- and 5-year-olds but became positive in 6-year-olds. This study shows that the two points-of-view on bilingual language development should be applied differently depending on children's age.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.127-132
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• 2020

The purpose of this review is to provide local readers, more specifically, Korean student readers who are not all that familiar with the English language a general overview of research articles that have been published in Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research vol. 1, no. 1. A brief summary of each research article focusing on research methods and then followed by an overall review and some insights on research issues will be presented.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2013

영한 기계번역 시스템을 개발하기 위해서는 언어에 대한 다양한 정보를 필요로 하며, 특히 영어 단어에 대한 의미 정보를 포함하는 영한 변환사전의 풍부한 정보량은 번역품질에 중요한 요소이다. 지속적으로 생성되는 새로운 단어들은 사전에 등록되어 있지 않아 번역문에 영어 단어가 그대로 출력되어 번역품질을 저하시킨다. 또한 복합명사는 어휘분석, 구문분석을 복잡하게 하고 사전에 의미가 등록되지 않은 경우가 많아 올바르게 번역하기 어렵다. 따라서 영한 기계번역의 번역품질 향상을 위해서는 사전에 등록되어 있지 않은 단어들과 자주 사용되는 복합명사들을 수집하고 의미 정보를 추가하여 영한 변환사전을 지속적으로 확장하는 것이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 인터넷 신문기사로부터 말뭉치를 추출하고, 사전 미등록 단어와 자주 나타나는 복합명사를 찾은 후, 이들에 대해 의미를 부착하여 영한 변환사전에 추가하는 일련의 과정으로 구성되는 영한 변환사전의 확장 방안을 제안하고 이를 지원하는 도구를 개발하였다. 사전 정보의 확대는 많은 사람의 노력을 필요로 하는 일이지만, 영한 기계번역 시스템의 개선을 위해서는 필수적이다. 본 논문에서 개발한 도구는 사람의 노력을 최소화 하면서, 영한 변환사전의 정보량 지속적인 확대를 위해 유용하게 활용되어 영한 기계번역 시스템의 번역품질 개선에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.