• 제목/요약/키워드: Essay Writing

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Effects of Corpus Use on Error Identification in L2 Writing

  • Yoshiho Satake
    • 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.61-71
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    • 2023
  • This study examines the effects of data-driven learning (DDL)-an approach employing corpora for inductive language pattern learning-on error identification in second language (L2) writing. The data consists of error identification instances from fifty-five participants, compared across different reference materials: the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), dictionaries, and no use of reference materials. There are three significant findings. First, the use of COCA effectively identified collocational and form-related errors due to inductive inference drawn from multiple example sentences. Secondly, dictionaries were beneficial for identifying lexical errors, where providing meaning information was helpful. Finally, the participants often employed a strategic approach, identifying many simple errors without reference materials. However, while maximizing error identification, this strategy also led to mislabeling correct expressions as errors. The author has concluded that the strategic selection of reference materials can significantly enhance the effectiveness of error identification in L2 writing. The use of a corpus offers advantages such as easy access to target phrases and frequency information-features especially useful given that most errors were collocational and form-related. The findings suggest that teachers should guide learners to effectively use appropriate reference materials to identify errors based on error types.

American Regionalism and Its Discontents in Constance Fenimore Woolson's "In Sloane Street"

  • 장기윤
    • 영미문화
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    • 제18권1호
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    • pp.93-120
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    • 2018
  • Constance Fenimore Woolson is among those whom scholars have for long been trying to rediscover and add to the list of representative American writers. The primary methodology has been regionalism, based on the fact that most of her work portrays remote, exotic regions in and out of America. Still, Woolson remains obscure to general readers as well as literary critics outside a small circle of her scholarship. This essay attributes that obscurity to Woolson scholars' blind reliance on regionalism's nationalistic assumption in reading Woolson's multifaceted writing, and proposes to explore her nationally and regionally displacing view of the rigidly stereotypical and ideologically biased binary opposition between the center and the margin in postbellum America. The essay takes as an example the only story by Woolson that has never been reprinted or anthologized until very recently, "In Sloane Street," and examines why it resists the scholarly endeavor to regional categorization. The examination especially focuses on how the story exposes the Americanizing conceptualization of the region and its limits. The essay concludes with an attention to the story's ending where Woolson abruptly yet deliberately introduces a form of almanac as the main character Gertrude's mode of daily record. The attention to that uniquely hybrid genre in the American literary tradition, which encompasses the public and the private, the universal and the local, sheds light on Woolson's authorial intention to deconstruct the Manichean view of literary regionalism.

사고력 시험으로서의 법학적성시험 (LEET as a Reasoning Test)

  • 민찬홍
    • 논리연구
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.273-293
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    • 2013
  • 지난 5년간 시행되어 온 법학적성시험의 개발 과정 및 초기 구상을 설명하고, "언어이해", "추리논증", "논술" 시험의 기출 문항을 내용 영역별, 인지활동 영역별로 분류하고 주요 특징을 기술하고, 문제점을 지적한다.

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The Eluded Allusion: A Satirical Reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

  • Lee, Seogkwang
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제64권3호
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    • pp.415-432
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    • 2018
  • This essay reinterprets Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness as satirical writing. In an experience-based fictional world, Conrad places imperial precursors who present themselves with a derogatory demeanor that stems from corrupt rapacity at its forefront. This rapacity is enabled by what European colonists believe to be a noble cause, regarded as a vehicle with which to enlighten African continent in his work. This essay reads this noble cause that allows such exorbitant and corrupt rapacity as a dominant element in the construction of Conrad's characters, particularly Kurtz, as objects of satire. Kurtz ends up beginning his calamitous descent into barbarism, mockingly quite opposite to what the colonial disciples misconceive themselves to be. In exhuming the satirical elements from the novel, this paper proves the significance of reading The Heart of Darkness as satire as an alternative reading to the racist book Chinua Achebe has accused it of.

PC통신과 웹에서 지역알림정보의 작성을 돕는 전문가적인 서비스 모형에 관한 연구: 지역주민의 견문을 중심으로 (Expertise Service Model Aiding Local Information Writing on the Web)

  • 이태영
    • 정보관리학회지
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    • 제16권1호
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    • pp.89-117
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    • 1999
  • 지역정보 쓰기에서 이용자들을 돕기 위해 (1) 글 구조, (2) 단락 구성, (3) 문장 작성, (4) 어휘 구사에 대한지식을 글 분석을 통해 연구하였다. 글 구상과 단락 구성을 각각 도와주는 글틀과 단락틀 지식베이스가 고안되었고 단어, 절, 문장의 구현에 필요한 단어와 절 및 문장의 예들을 모은 사전 데이터베이스도 만들었다. 서비스의 질을 높이기 위해 전문가 지향적인 시스템을 추구하였다. PC통신과 웹에서 실용적인 시스템이 되려면 앞으로 (1) 글틀과 단락틀의 주제 추출, (2) 문장의 대표어 작성, (3) 각종 규칙의 정제, (4) 정밀한 지식베이스 구축이 필수적이라고 사려된다.

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Error Analysis: What Problems do Learners Face in the Production of the English Passive Voice?

  • Jung, Woo-Hyun
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.19-40
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    • 2006
  • This paper deals with a part-specific analysis of grammatical errors in the production of the English passive in writing. The purpose of the study is dual: to explore common error types in forming the passive; and to provide plausible sources of the errors, with special attention to the role of the native language. To this end, this study obtained a large amount of data from Korean EFL university students using an essay writing task. The results show that in forming the passive sentence, errors were made in various ways and that the most common problem was the formation of the be-auxiliary, in particular, the proper use of tense and S-V agreement. Another important finding was that the global errors found in this study were not necessarily those with the greatest frequency. Also corroborated was the general claim that many factors work together to account for errors. In many cases, interlingual and intralingual factors were shown to interact with each other to explain the passive errors made by Korean students. On the basis of the results, suggestions are made for effective and well-formed use of the passive sentence.

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USING ASTRONOMY AND BOTANY TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILLS

  • NUTARO, SUKANYA;NITHITAKKHARANON, PIYAPHAT
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제30권2호
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    • pp.745-747
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    • 2015
  • Astronomy is one of the interesting but difficult topics in science for elementary education. Therefore, it is interesting to create astronomy activities that children can understand clearly. The researchers developed activities by using astronomy and botany to improve writing skills. They have to glue the local flowers on the star pictures then write the name of those flowers, the name of the constellation and write an essay describing their work. The participants are into two groups. 71 $3^{rd}$ year undergraduate students who registered for teaching and are learning science as an elementary education subjec, and 10 $1^{st}$ grade student from the laboratory school of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat university. We can conclude that both groups were more interested in astronomy, they can tell the name of local flowers and not only used their imagination to create their work, but also to write great essays.

A BERT-Based Automatic Scoring Model of Korean Language Learners' Essay

  • Lee, Jung Hee;Park, Ji Su;Shon, Jin Gon
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • 제18권2호
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    • pp.282-291
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    • 2022
  • This research applies a pre-trained bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) handwriting recognition model to predict foreign Korean-language learners' writing scores. A corpus of 586 answers to midterm and final exams written by foreign learners at the Intermediate 1 level was acquired and used for pre-training, resulting in consistent performance, even with small datasets. The test data were pre-processed and fine-tuned, and the results were calculated in the form of a score prediction. The difference between the prediction and actual score was then calculated. An accuracy of 95.8% was demonstrated, indicating that the prediction results were strong overall; hence, the tool is suitable for the automatic scoring of Korean written test answers, including grammatical errors, written by foreigners. These results are particularly meaningful in that the data included written language text produced by foreign learners, not native speakers.

L2 영어 학습자들의 연어 사용 능숙도와 텍스트 질 사이의 수치화 (Quantifying L2ers' phraseological competence and text quality in L2 English writing)

  • 권준혁;김재준;김유래;박명관;송상헌
    • 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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    • 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 2017년도 제29회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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    • pp.281-284
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    • 2017
  • On the basis of studies that show multi-word combinations, that is the field of phraseology, this study aims to examine relationship between the quality of text and phraseological competence in L2 English writing, following Yves Bestegen et al. (2014). Using two different association scores, t-score and Mutual Information(MI), which are opposite ways of measuring phraseological competence, in terms of scoring frequency and infrequency, bigrams from L2 writers' text scored based on a reference corpus, GloWbE (Corpus of Global Web based English). On a cross-sectional approach, we propose that the quality of the essays and the mean MI score of the bigram extracted from YELC, Yonsei English Learner Corpus, correlated to each other. The negative scores of bigrams are also correlated with the quality of the essays in the way that these bigrams are absent from the reference corpus, that is mostly ungrammatical. It indicates that increase in the proportion of the negative scored bigrams debases the quality of essays. The conclusion shows the quality of the essays scored by MI and t-score on cross-sectional approach, and application to teaching method and assessment for second language writing proficiency.

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L2 영어 학습자들의 연어 사용 능숙도와 텍스트 질 사이의 수치화 (Quantifying L2ers' phraseological competence and text quality in L2 English writing)

  • 권준혁;김재준;김유래;박명관;송상헌
    • 한국어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국어정보학회 2017년도 제29회 한글및한국어정보처리학술대회
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    • pp.281-284
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    • 2017
  • On the basis of studies that show multi-word combinations, that is the field of phraseology, this study aims to examine relationship between the quality of text and phraseological competence in L2 English writing, following Yves Bestegen et al. (2014). Using two different association scores, t-score and Mutual Information(MI), which are opposite ways of measuring phraseological competence, in terms of scoring frequency and infrequency, bigrams from L2 writers' text scored based on a reference corpus, GloWbE (Corpus of Global Web based English). On a cross-sectional approach, we propose that the quality of the essays and the mean MI score of the bigram extracted from YELC, Yonsei English Learner Corpus, correlated to each other. The negative scores of bigrams are also correlated with the quality of the essays in the way that these bigrams are absent from the reference corpus, that is mostly ungrammatical. It indicates that increase in the proportion of the negative scored bigrams debases the quality of essays. The conclusion shows the quality of the essays scored by MI and t-score on cross-sectional approach, and application to teaching method and assessment for second language writing proficiency.

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