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영어의 서법 조동사 Will/Shall에 관한 연구 (A study on the English modal auxiliary Will/Shall)

  • 강문구
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제12권3호
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    • pp.99-122
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this paper is to explain the meanings and uses of the English auxiliaries SHALL/WILL. The complexity of modern usage of SHALL/WILL has been one of the most disputable themes of traditional English grammar. The paper purported to address the study and analysis of diachronic and synchronic approach to the two auxiliaries. A general view of the figures of Fries'(1925) survey was added for further investigation. The results of the study showed that these auxiliaries express some of various modal meanings associated with the volitional or emotional attitude of the speaker without implying futurity. The findings also suggested that the use of SHALL in present-day English is restricted to non-volitional future with the first person but the practice of this use is also diminished by the expansion of the use of WILL, and the original meaning of WILL, 'to desire or wish', has generally been replaced by other verbs or modal forms. But sentences which seem to indicate futurity are often tinged with modal senses. Therefore, WILL/SHALL should be considered to act either as tense auxiliary or as modal auxiliary depending on situational contexts in which it occurs.

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스마트폰과 음성합성을 활용한 영어 말하기 과제의 개발과 평가 (Development and Evaluation of an English Speaking Task Using Smartphone and Text-to-Speech)

  • 문도식
    • 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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    • 제16권5호
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2016
  • 본 연구는 국내 영어 학습자들의 말하기 출력 활동을 활성화시킬 방안으로서 스마트폰과 음성합성(Text-to-Speech)이 지닌 장점을 활용하여 모바일 영어 학습의 한 형태인 영어 말하기 영상 과제 학습 모델을 개발, 적용한 후, 이 모델이 학습자들에게 미친 효과를 탐구하였다. 설문 조사 결과 모바일 기기를 활용한 영어 말하기 영상 과제는 학습자들의 전반적인 영어실력 뿐 아니라 발음, 말하기, 듣기, 쓰기 영역에서 자신감과 실력 향상에 긍정적인 영향을 미친 것으로 나타났다. 이런 결과를 기반으로 외국어로서 영어를 학습해야 하는 상황적 한계로 인해 충분한 영어 입력에 노출되지 못하고 말하기 출력활동이 부족한 국내 영어 학습자들의 영어 말하기 능력을 향상시킬 한 가지 방안으로써 말하기 영상 과제의 가능성과 한계를 논의한다.

영어 활용 능력 향상을 위한 채팅시스템 (Chatting System for English Practical Use Ability Elevation)

  • 박지웅
    • 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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    • 제8권3호
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    • pp.107-112
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    • 2003
  • 최근 들어, 채팅시스템의 사용이 일반화되면서, 이제 채팅시스템은 영어 능력 향상을 위한 도구로 활용되고 있다. 영어 채팅을 위해 현재 사용되고 있는 일반 채팅시스템 및 한글 제한 채팅시스템은 영어와 한글을 혼용하여 채팅을 하거나, 사용하고자 하는 단어 등의 내용을 알지 못해 응답을 하지 못하는 등의 교육 효과적인 측면에서 영어 활용 능력을 높이고자 하는 본래의 취지가 약해지는 문제점이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 영어 채팅 사용자에게 적절한 통제와 안내를 하는 다양한 기능을 지원하여 영어의 쓰기와 말하기 등의 교육효과를 동시에 높일 수 있고, C/S와 P2P 방식을 혼용하여 시스템의 성능을 향상시키는 EPUE 채팅시스템을 제안하였다.

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How Anaphors Recover Their References

  • Lee, Hyeran
    • 한국영어학회지:영어학
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    • 제1권4호
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    • pp.629-649
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    • 2001
  • This paper aims to provide an account for the English anaphors under the framework of the recent development of minimalism (Chomsky 1999, 2001). I propose that the anaphor has the uninterpretable [a] feature. The Agree operation erases the [a] feature by feature match. Once the [a] is deleted, the derivation converges, providing a proper interpretation of the anaphor. When there is no matching phi-features, the [a] cannot be eliminated, inducing the derivation to crash. The Agree operation can account for not only the typical local binding cases in English but the apparent long-distance binding cases in the picture-DP and expletive constructions. Consequently, the traditional concept of the binding domain and dichotomy between local and long-distance types are abandoned in favor of the analysis under the framework of minimalism. The minimalist accounts thus maximally simplifies the binding principles, using the general operation Agree only.

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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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The Importance of Learning Language and Culture Integration: Focused on TOEIC Reading Comprehension

  • Shin, Myeong-Hee;Lee, Eunpyo
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.207-221
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    • 2012
  • This study examines the importance of learning language and cultural integration in general English class focused on TOEIC reading comprehension. The understanding of cultural learning and learners' cultural awareness has long been a subject of debate. This study was not only to analyze the improvement of students' interest and reading comprehension ability of TOEIC through cultural learning, but also to ensure students who learn American culture overcome cross-cultural miscommunication and improve their English reading comprehension skills. Pre-post surveys and the pre-post TOEIC tests were used to measure language proficiency and American cultural knowledge to two groups: the experimental and control group. The results from the study were as follows: First, students had better TOEIC scores with improved motivation after understanding American culture relevant to the lessons. Second, reading comprehension skills with regards to TOEIC also improved, compared with the students who were not exposed to American culture due to lack of opportunity.

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What Do Our Students and Teachers Believe about Grammar in EFL Context?

  • Suh, Jae-Suk
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.23-52
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    • 2004
  • This paper investigated students' and teachers' attitudes toward L2 grammar in EFL learning context. In a study in which attitude was viewed as consisting of three different components such as cognitive, affective, and behavioral, questionnaire developed on the basis of such a view of attitude was used as a data collection method. The results of the study indicated that in general, both students and teachers were similar to each other in their attitude toward L2 grammar. Among the findings, most important, two groups were shown to fully understand the important role of grammar in L2 learning. Another finding was that despite the 6th national curriculum for English education, our English class was still dominated by grammar-centered instruction. Also it was shown that the way teachers had been taught L2 grammar had a considerable effect on the way they would instruct it in their future classes. Based on these findings, some suggestions were offered for effective grammar pedagogy in EFL context.

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Korean Native Speakers' Perception of English Sounds According to the Groupings of Phonetic Contrasts

  • Kim, Gi-Na;Kim, Soo-Jin
    • 음성과학
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate Korean native speakers' perception of English sounds according to groupings of phonetic contrasts. The four groupings looked at were vowels, voicing (voiced-unvoiced), fricatives with difference in place of articulation, and other clusters of specific sound contrasts, such as stop-fricatives and liquids. The position of a sound in syllable was also examined. According to the results of ANOVA and a post-hoc analysis, the perception of vowels, in the medial position was different from that of consonants in the initial and final position. Vowels proved to be the most difficult group to perceive correctly. With the consonants, there was not a big difference whether the contrasts came initially or finally. The order of difficulty was liquids, fricatives, stop-fricatives, and finally voicing.

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A Case Study Exploring the Roles of Mawhiba in Supporting and Saudi Verbal Gifted in the English Language

  • Alharthi, Noha Abdullah
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제22권8호
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    • pp.304-322
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    • 2022
  • This study investigated a case of a gifted Saudi student, X, who was early detected through Mawhiba (The Saudi Institution of Gifted) when he was eight years old. Then, the journey continued until he became a Tamayuz member and received a scholarship in 2022 to pursue his bachelor's at one of the prestige, high-ranking universities in the USA to study Mathematics and Economics. Lack of information about the status of Saudi verbal gifted maked X case a model to explore the roles of Mawhiba's programs in supporting Saudi verbal giftedness in general and particularly in learning the English language, plus seeking the opportunities Mawhiba provided for Saudi verbal gifted to enrich their giftedness in the English language through providing extended social networking and finally stating the sample's perspective about the opportunities and services Mawhiba provided him. The three core instruments to accumulate elaboration and interpret qualitative and quantitative data were academic records, writing samples, family observation, and a written interview.

Korean EFL Learners' Sensitivity to Stylistic Differences in Their Letter Writing

  • Lee, Haemoon;Park, Heesoo
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제56권6호
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    • pp.1163-1190
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    • 2010
  • Korean EFL learners' stylistic sensitivity was examined through the two types of letter writing, professional and personal. The base of comparison with the English native speakers' stylistic sensitivity was the linguistic style markers that were statistically found by Biber's (1988) multi-dimensional model of variation of English language. The main finding was that Korean university students were sensitive to stylistic difference in the correct direction, though their linguistic repertoire was limited to the easy and simple linguistic features. Also, the learners were skewed in the involved style in both types of the letters unlike the native speakers and it was interpreted as due to the general developmental direction from informal to formal linguistic style. Learners were also skewed in the explicit style in both types of letters unlike the native speakers and it was interpreted as due to the learners' heavy reliance on one particular linguistic feature. As a whole, the learners' stylistic sensitivity heavily relied on the small number of linguistic features that they have already acquired, which happen to be simple and basic linguistic features.