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A Study on Korean EFL Collegians' Approach to L2 Writing Based on Metacognition and Affectivity (상위인지와 정서에 기반한 외국어 학습방법에 대한 연구)

  • Kang, Mi-Jeong;Joo, Chi-Woon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.183-190
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    • 2010
  • The present study attempted to identify the metacognitive strategies used by L2 writers at the university level as well as their particular aspects which might influence the use of these strategies. Twenty-seven participants, all of whom were enrolled in an English course, were asked to write an expository essay and then complete a questionnaire which includes their beliefs and attitudes toward L2 writing experience and the metacognitive strategies during the writing process. It was found that even though inexpert writers knew and employed as many strategies as the expert counterparts did, they were unsuccessful in the quality of their texts. Simply possessing a repertoire of metacognitive strategies was not enough for successful L2 writing. The failure of the inexpert writers to apply these metacognitive strategies in an effective manner was influenced by affective factors such as anxiety, self-confidence, self-concept, etc. As a result of this study, a pedagogical implication is suggested.

The validity of using cumulative peer assessed scores for final grades in college courses (대학 수업에서 누적 동료평가 점수를 활용한 성적 산출 방법의 타당성)

  • Bae, Soo Jung;Park, Joo Yong
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.221-245
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    • 2016
  • Peer assessment refers to having students, rather than the instructor, make assessments of one another's work. Peer assessment is often used as a tool to train writing skills or a tool to apply or extend learning in higher education. Park(2016) recently proposed a system which utilizes peer assessment as a part of preparatory activity for college courses. Before weekly class, students studied given material on their own, wrote a one page essay on a given question based on their reading, and assessed the essays of other students. In this study, the system was implemented in undergraduate courses at S University over 2 semesters and the results were analyzed. The reliability of weekly scores given by students was not very high, but the correlation was high between the cumulative scores given by students across weeks and the scores of the end of the term paper assessed by the instructor. Based on these findings, the possibility of utilizing the results of the peer assessments as part of the final grades was discussed.

Correlation Analysis among Peer Evaluation, Self-evaluation and Instructor Evaluation on Argumentation Writing in the 'Biology Logic and Essay' ('생물교과논리 및 논술' 에서의 논증글쓰기에 대한 동료평가-자기평가-교수자 평가 간 상관관계 분석)

  • Kyunghee Kang
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.75-87
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    • 2023
  • This study analyzed correlation among peer evaluation, self-evaluation, and instructor evaluation of argumentation writing conducted in the 'Biology logic and essay' class. To this end, 14 pre-service biology teachers wrote argumentation four times, and peer evaluation, self-evaluation, and instructor evaluation were conducted on these results. The peer evaluation for argumentation writing averaged 2.70 points, the self-evaluation average was 2.68 points, and the instructor evaluation average was 2.71. Looking at the average of each sub-evaluation area, scientific knowledge was the highest in peer evaluation, and the composition area was the highest in self-evaluation. In addition, the area of scientific knowledge was the highest in the instructor evaluation. As a result of examining the standard deviation, the standard deviation of self-evaluation was the largest. As a result of analyzing the correlation between evaluation types, there was a high correlation between peer evaluation and instructor evaluation, and there was a moderate correlation between self-evaluation and instructor evaluation. On the other hand, there was no significant correlation between peer evaluation and self-evaluation. As a result of analyzing the correlation by evaluation area, there was no significant correlation between peer evaluation and self-evaluation in all four areas of scientific knowledge, scientific argumentation, composition, and expression. On the other hand, in the analysis between peer evaluation and instructor evaluation, there was a significant correlation in the areas of scientific knowledge, scientific argumentation, and composition. In addition, there was a significant correlation between self-evaluation and instructor evaluation only in the area of expression. The results of this study show that peer evaluation is highly likely to be applied in the 'Subject logic and essay' class. It also suggests that it is necessary to subdivide evaluation criteria according to the type of evaluation in order to use peer evaluation and self-evaluation.

Considering Issues of Vision in Panoptical Representation: Bentham, Bender, Fried, and Mayhew (파놉티콘적 재현에 나타난 시각성의 여러 측면들: 벤쌈, 벤더, 프리드, 메이휴)

  • Shin, Hi-Sup
    • The Journal of Art Theory & Practice
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    • no.7
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    • pp.189-240
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    • 2009
  • This essay aims to develop a critical approach of interpretation in examining the panoptical condition of representation that is said to permeate the tradition of modern realism in novels and paintings. In defining this approach, I am interested in the problem or inability of panoptical representation to tell a coherent story of solitude(solitary confinement, isolation, self-absorption, etc.) in a range of texts from prison documents to paintings and novels, and also what might occasion such an inability including social, material, or stylistic contradictions and conflicting epistemological angles. This task potentially anticipates a trajectory of readings and investigations that cuts through the history of panoptical representation, which is outside the scope of this essay. In this writing, I will engage in a series of debates with what I consider as major theories and views of panoptical representation offered by Jeremy Bentham, John Bender, and Michael Fried. Based on this, I will formulate a conceptual or methodological frame of discourse that would envisage an anti-panoptical approach of interpretation. As an attempt to validate this formulation, I will offer a reading of Henry Mayhew's Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life(1862), a case of panoptical representation that produces a peculiar sense of ambivalence while accounting for sites of penal solitude.

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Vocabulary Improvement in EFL Writing through Narrative and Expository Texts (외국어교육 상황에서 텍스트 유형별 읽기에 따른 어휘력향상 연구)

  • Shin, Kyu-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.201-209
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of narrative and expository texts on incidental vocabulary learning of Korean university EFL learners while reading. The experimental groups were divided into 3 groups. The first experimental group were exposed to narrative texts and second group received expository texts. And the third group were administered narrative and expository texts alternately. The vocabulary tests were conducted after the last session to assess the incidental vocabulary gains of the learners. The results indicated the superiority of the expository texts over narratives in terms of enhancing learners' incidental acquisition of unknown words. Moreover, the results showed that the blended reading group of expository and narrative texts did better on the vocabulary gains than those of narrative reading group and expository reading group. However, in the essay writing assessment, the expository group committed the most vocabulary errors in writing.

Research on Management of Test of Proficiency in Koeran(TOPIK) for the disabled examinee (장애인을 위한 한국어능력시험(TOPIK) 운영 방법에 대한 연구 - 시각장애인 응시자를 중심으로 -)

  • Jung, Seung-Yeon;Hwang, Ji-You
    • Journal of Korean language education
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.169-201
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this research is to analyze the problems of the way of the 32th TOPIK(advanced)'s management for the disabled examinee and to prescribe the management of the TOPIK for them. Since the TOPIK started in 1997, the number of examinee who take it as a qualifying exam for the university entrance have gradually increased. The first disabled examinee who wants to use the result of the TOPIK for entrance into the post graduated university took the 32th TOPIK(advanced level). However, there was no examination regulations and detailed management method for the disabled. The biggest problem was the examinee could not have braille test and answer. The exam supervisor read all that is printed on the test sheet. It caused two big problems. 1) The essay question in writing test became an oral test. 2) The strategies of answering to multiple choice questions could not be used in vocabulary/grammar, writing, listening, and specially reading section. The first problem is occurred because writing and speaking have different cognitive process. The second one can be strongly related to the result in reading section. Above all, these disrupt accurate assessment of the examinee's writing and reading achievement. Therefore, this research insists the TOPIK needs to have the regulation and prescribe the management for the disabled. This research suggests 5 regulations for the blind examinee which covers the test time, supervisor, place and request of the examinee. These refer to the regulation for the disable in the other tests, such as the college scholarship ability test, TOEFL, TEPS, and a civil service exam.

Formulaic Language Development in Asian Learners of English: A Comparative Study of Phrase-frames in Written and Oral Production

  • Yoon Namkung;Ute Romer
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.1-39
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    • 2023
  • Recent research in usage-based Second Language Acquisition has provided new insights into second language (L2) learners' development of formulaic language (Wulff, 2019). The current study examines the use of phrase-frames, which are recurring sequences of words including one or more variable slots (e.g., it is * that), in written and oral production data from Asian learners of English across four proficiency levels (beginner, low-intermediate, high-intermediate, advanced) and native English speakers. The variability, predictability, and discourse functions of the most frequent 4-word phrase-frames from the written essay and spoken dialogue sub-corpora of the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE) were analyzed and then compared across groups and modes. The results revealed that while learners' phrase-frames in writing became more variable and unpredictable as proficiency increased, no clear developmental patterns were found in speaking, although all groups used more fixed and predictable phrase-frames than the reference group. Further, no developmental trajectories in the functions of the most frequent phrase-frames were found in both modes. Additionally, lower-level learners and the reference group used more variable phrase-frames in speaking, whereas advanced-level learners showed more variability in writing. This study contributes to a better understanding of the development of L2 phraseological competence.

The case study for university writing class through the classics of Orient - Focusing on in the book of 『Zhuangzi』 (동양고전을 활용한 대학 글쓰기 수업 사례 연구 - 『장자(莊子)子』 <제물론(齊物論)>을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Yun jeong
    • (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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    • no.48
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    • pp.311-340
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    • 2012
  • This research is the case study on the course of 'Masterpiece Reading & Fine Composition Writing' in Ewha Waman's University which opens this class as a intensified writing course. In this course, part in the book of "Zhuangzi" is selected as the reading text. This research targets at highlighting the characteristics and effectiveness which appears in when the class choose the classics of Orient as writing text. This research divides the student's performance into two steps. Understanding stage and Evaluation stage. In Understanding stage, the student read part in the book of "Zhuangzi", write a discussion paper and discuss on, and in Evaluation stage, the student write the essay, depending on their previous performance in Understanding stage. This research discusses on each stage's characteristics, and analyzes the effectiveness of each ones. Especially, in the stage of Evaluation this research focuses on the relative view in perception of outside, finding self-introspection factor, and accommodating communication message. By connecting "Zhuangzi" and writing, this research tries to rediscover the era of the variety and its value, suggest the meaning of self-consciousness, and finally draw out the significance of open thought and creative writing. This research suggests on the meaningness of a modern reinterpretation on the classics and also provides the example of instructive usage of the classical text.

"Suojaegi(守吾齋記)": Its Analysis and Educational Application (<수오재기(守吾齋記)>의 의미분석과 교육적 활용)

  • Jo, sang-woo
    • (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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    • no.48
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    • pp.289-310
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    • 2012
  • The present study analyzes the content of "Suojaegi (The Account of the Suo Residence)," an essay written by the Joseon-dynasty scholar Jeong Yak-yong (丁若鏞, 1762-1836). The study identifies the work's characteristic features and significance, seeking to develop a methodology to use this essay to teach students how to write. In terms of its content, the author of "Suojaegi" asserts what it means to "protect one's self-integrity" as the word "Suo" means in the title of the residence where the author's brother Jeong Yak-hyeon(丁若鉉) lived. According to the author, his elder brother could keep on living in his house, without being sent to exile in the political turmoils, because he preserved his sense of self and adhered to his principles. The originality of the essay is attributed to the use of gi (記), a genre of writing in classical Chinese that can be translated as "record," or "account," to express his thoughts in a place of exile in the form of a dialogue with his own self. Lastly, this self-reflective essay can be served as a guide for teaching students to make their own pen names, and to write a letter of self-introduction.

Relationship between Entrance Qualifications and Academic Performance of Pharmacy Students (약학대학생들의 입학전형요소와 학업성취도의 상관관계에 관한 연구)

  • Weon, Kwon-Yeon;Joo, Sang Hoon
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.58 no.4
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    • pp.250-254
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    • 2014
  • Background: A new admission procedure was introduced to Korea when Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D.) program was first established in 2011. In the new procedure, applicants are reviewed based on quantitative qualifications, which include Pharmacy Education Eligibility Test (PEET) scores, Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) scores, and grade point average (GPA), as well as qualitative qualifications such as essay writing, extracurricular activities including volunteer experiences. Purpose: This study aimed to find relationships between entrance qualifications and academic performance of pharmacy students. Method: Entrance qualifications and academic performance of 164 first-year students were analyzed from 2011 to 2013 at Catholic University of Daegu. Other characteristics such as age and gender were also considered in the study. Results: Only GPA and TOEIC scores showed positive Pearson correlation with academic performance, while PEET scores did not. Conclusion: GPA and TOEIC scores could potentially have predictive validity for academic performance in pharmacy school. PEET scores, however, should simply be considered as pre-entrance qualifications, without predictive validity for academic performance.