• 비교문화연구
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• 제37권
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• pp.335-360
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether high-level(level 6) essay-writing questions in Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) have been presented appropriately so as to enable foreign test-takers to display their Korean writing ability properly, and to provide some suggestions on how those questions need to be changed. To accomplish this purpose, all the essay-writing questions were collected from the 33 TOPIK tests, from the 2nd in 1998 to the 35thin 2014, and analyzed from the perspectives of their topics and formats. The results are that high-level TOPIK essay-writing questions showed a strong tendency to take as their topics Korean sociocultural structures and phenomena, or current issues in Korea, and that they frequently employed guided writing formats by providing preset ideas or/and contexts for test-takers to write in a guided way; such tendencies were analyzed to shed a negative influence on test-takers displaying their writing ability and creativity, because those topics and preset ideas or contexts provided do not allow them to express their own opinions or positions freely. It is suggested that TOPIK essay-writing questions should be changed to deal with objective and general topics which enable test-takers to write freely and logically in Korean based on their experience, because TOPIK is not a test to check whether they have enough background knowledge about the Korean society and culture, but a test to assess their Korean proficiency.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2024

This study aimed to identify target lexical bundles (e.g., on the other hand, at the same time) for argumentative essay writing and rank them in order of teaching priority for Japanese learners. Despite significant functional roles of lexical bundles in academic writing, the inclusion of lexical bundles in argumentative writing had been underexplored. Since argumentative writing skills help undergraduate students prepare for their academic careers (e.g., writing papers), the lexical bundles under this genre deserve more attention. This study first extracted 78 target bundles from L1 argumentative essay corpora (International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English: ICNALE and Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays: LOCNESS). The study then classified the bundles according to their discourse functions and semantic transparency to estimate the learnability for Japanese learners in L2 compatible corpora with the ICNALE. The results showed that learners had difficulty using the bundles with referential functions (e.g., in the form of) and semantic opaqueness (e.g., when it comes to), suggesting that the bundles in these two categories should be prioritized among the 78 bundles.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈E:수학교육논문집
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.131-154
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• 2014

이 연구는 서술형 수학 쓰기 활동이 초등학생의 문제 해결 및 수학적 성향에 미치는 효과를 알아보는데 목적이 있다. 본 연구를 실행하기 위해, 서울B초등학교 6학년 학급에 문제 해결력 및 수학적 성향 검사를 실시하여 동질성을 가지는 두 개의 학급을 선정하였으며, 실험집단에는 서술형 수학 쓰기 활동 수업을 실시하였으며, 비교집단에는 교과서 및 교사용 지도서 중심의 일반적인 수업을 실시하였다. 실험처치는 약 두 달 동안 15회에 걸쳐 실시하였고, 서술형 수학 쓰기 활동의 효과를 알아보기 위해 문제 해결력 검사를 실시하여 두 집단 간 성취도를 t-test로 분석하였으며, 검사지에 나타난 학생들의 서술 내용을 분석하여 문제 해결 과정에서 나타난 특징을 알아보았다. 또한 수학적 성향 검사를 실시하고 그 결과를 독립표본 t-test로 분석하였으며, 서술형 평가에 대한 성향을 묻는 설문조사를 실시하고 학생들의 반응을 분석하였다. 본 연구 결과, 서술형 수학 쓰기 활동은 학생들의 문제 해결력과 문제해결과정, 수학적 성향에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 또한 서술형 평가에 대한 학생들의 인식이 개선된 것으로 나타났다.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.45-53
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• 1996

1994년도 대학입시부터 재개된 논술시험이 점차 그 비중을 확대하는 추세에 있다. 논술시험은 특히 1997년도 입시부터 시작될 교육개혁안에 의한 대학입시체제에서 강조된다고 한다. 그러나 논술시험에 대해 우려되는 것이 몇가지 있으며 그 중 하나는 채점의 신뢰도에 관한 것이다. 본 연구에서는 1995년도 K대학교 입시 논술의 채점 신뢰도를 높이기 위하여 취해졌던 연구과정과 그 결과를 평가, 보고한다. 주요 결과는 두 차례에 걸친 독립 채점의 결과 그 차이가 정한 값 이상일 때 재검하여 제3차 채점자가 최종점수를 내는 채점절차가 세 차례에 걸쳐 독립적으로 채점하는 절차보다 신뢰도가 높으며 또한 효율적이라는 것이다.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.198-210
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• 2013

The purpose of this study investigates high school students' recognition and realities on the integrated science essay and is to suggest desirable direction of integrated science essay of how eduction. To this end, this paper was a questionnaire developed for use, it consists of the status, the writing skills and recognition of integrated science essay. Firstly, all grade students recognize the interest in integrated science essay class, but the need for third grade boys urgently was feeling. Second, STEAM class as a whole than average preference was. Third, integrated science essay was the most relevant, then was mathematics, languages, philosophy ethics, and social. Fourth, integrated science essay class with boys than girls in grade 1, science essay writing, reading science-related essay books, grammar, knowledge of the science and philosophy of science lessons, classes STEAM, read commentary essay reference all on the item, the higher affinity. Currently being implemented in integrated science essay test compared to the first, team teaching approach in schools project under one class teaches students how many teachers should be made. Second, it would require modifications of course content tailored to the preferences of female preference for science higher grade female students to disappear.

• Educational Technology International
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.71-94
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• 2011

How can an automated essay scoring (AES) program, which provides feedback for essays, be a formative tool for improving ESL writing? In spite of the increasing demands for English writing proficiency, English writing instruction has not been effective for teaching and learning because of a lack of timely and accurate feedback. In this context, AES as a possible solution has been gaining the attention of educators and scholars in ESL/EFL writing education because it can provide consistent and prompt feedback for student writers. This experimental study examined the impact of different types of feedback for a college ESL writing program using the Criterion AES system. The results reveal the positive impact of AES in a college-level ESL course and differences between the teacher's feedback and the AES feedback. The findings suggest that AES can be effectively integrated into ESL writing instruction as a formative assessment tool.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2012

This paper emphasizes writing education for engineering students should be communication driven writing education based on KEC2005. Communication driven writing for engineering students is essentially same as Technical Writing(TW) developed on the basis of ABET. Considering the current writing capability of engineering students and social need for various types of writing, TW education should be divided into two courses: basic and advanced. This paper deals with contents of a basic TW course in Myongji University, as a model case of a basic TW course for engineering students. It underlines various methods of prewriting that should be stressed and practiced in the TW class, because the prewriting step in the writing process determines the overall direction and structure of an essay. In particular, this paper introduces Power Writing(PW) which uses the structure of a paragraph as a means for providing building-blocks for the essay, employing logic, and ordering information arrangement in a paragraph. This paper also deals with important guidelines about sentence structure and word selection and proposes various applications of TW such as resume, interview, proposal, report, and presentation as a latter part of the basic course. Finally this paper highlights the etics of writing, such as plagiarism and the basic principles of quotation.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.118-123
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• 2010

This study is aiming to structure progressive instructional strategy for development of constructivist-thinking into the beginning stage, developmental stage, and advanced stage, then organize multiple choice, completion, descriptive, and essay problems to be suitable for each stage of the strategy, and finally, to evaluate what effects this instructional strategy has on the students' academic achievements and enhancement of their scientific essay writing skills. The results of the study are as follows. First, lessons applying the strategy for developing constructivist-thinking were more effective in enhancing student' academic achievement than the text book-oriented lecture type lessons. In changes in academic achievement, the test group, for both high and low levels, displayed a higher average than the control group, however, changes in the high level was not statistically significant and changes in the low level students were found to be statistically significant. Second, scientific essay writing skills were found to be effective in all levels of the test group and the averages in both high and low groups of the test group were higher than those of the control group and were also found to be statistically significant.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.1255-1279
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• 2010

Much has already been learned about what goes on in the minds of second language writers as they compose, yet, oddly enough, until recently little in the L2 research literature has addressed writing and mental imagery together. However, images and imaging (visual thinking) play a crucial role in perception (the basis of mental imagery), in turn, affecting language, thinking, and writing. Many theorists of mental imagery also agree that more than just language accounts for how we think and that imagery is at least as crucial as language. All of these demands, to be sure, are compounded for EFL students, which is why I investigate EFL students' writing process, focusing on the use of mental imagery and its relationship to the writing. First I speculate upon some ways that imagery influences EFL students' composing processes and products. Next, I want to explore how and whether the images in a writer's mind can be shaped effectively into a linear piece of written English in one's writing. I studied two university undergraduate EFL students, L and J. They had fairly advanced levels of English proficiency and exhibited high level of writing ability, as measured by TOEFL iBT Test. Each student wrote two comparison and contrast essays: one written under specified time limitations and the other written without the pressure of time. In order to investigate whether the amount of time in itself causes differences within an individual in imagery ability, the students were placed under strict time constraints for Topic 1. But for Topic 2, they were encouraged to take as much time as necessary to complete this essay. Immediately after completing their essays, I conducted face-to-face retrospective interviews with students to prompt them for information about the role of imagery as they write. Both L and J have spent more time on their second (untimed) essays. Without time constraint, they produced longer texts on untimed essay (149 vs. 170; 186 vs 284 words). However, despite a relatively long period of time spent writing an essay, these students neither described their images nor detailed them in their essays. Although their mental imagery generated an explosion of ideas for their writings, most visual thinking must merely be a means toward an end-pictures that writers spent in purchasing the right words or ideas.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.135-138
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• 2007

오늘날 논술교육은 학교교육과정, 사설학원, 온라인 수업등을 통해 다양하게 이뤄지고 있다. 하지만 학교에서 각종 글쓰기 자료들을 정리해 보면, 맞춤법이나 자신의 경험을 표현하는데 있어 논리적이지 못하고 미숙한 경우를 자주 볼 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 6단논법을 통한 논리적인 글쓰기 첨삭지도모듈을 적용하여, 학생들의 논리적 표현력을 신장시킬 수 있는 시스템을 설계하였다. 제안된 시스템을 통하여 학생들은 mash-up 서비스를 활용한 풍부한 논리적 글쓰기가 가능하며, 교사들은 첨삭지도시스템을 통해 학생들의 논리적 표현력을 신장시키는데 도움이 되리라 기대한다.