• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.127-152
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• 2006

For the past 20 years the process approach to writing has been popular in second language writing classrooms. However, there have been very few studies conducted in Korea with regard to the composing processes and the effects of proficiency on writers' usage. The present study attempts to begin to fill this gap. Three groups of college students with different writing proficiency participated in the study: the advanced group, the intermediate group, and the beginning group. The verbal protocol of their writing processes revealed that they approached writing tasks differently. While the advanced writers focused on generating texts and ideas and examined their writing at both global and local levels, the other two groups of students tended to focus on evaluating text at the local level and generated fewer ideas and less text. The findings from this study are then compared to those of some major studies of the composing process as conclusions are subsequently drawn about the specific needs of Korean college writers.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.17-34
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• 2001

Kamp & Reyle's (1993) proposal to represent split antecedents to a plural pronoun in terms of sum- mation and abstraction is critically reviewed in this paper, In point our some weak- nesses of their analysis as well as wrong predictions they make. In propose to treat the partitive reading found in bare numeral constructions by separating the conven-tional DRS construction rules from the cognitively motivated DRS-operations at a different level. A preference rule is also proposed that would constrain the sortal structure of discourse referents when such operations as summation and abstraction are enforced at the DRS's of relevant levels. Evidence for the separate treatment of linguistically motivated processes apart from cognitively motivated ones comes from both English and Korean constructions involving definite plural pronouns and numeral classifiers.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.27-52
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• 2004

This paper attempts to define various notions involving focus and topic found in Korean and also employs phonetic measures to verify the plausibility of those notions that are theoretically argued for. This paper crucially relies on Prince (1981) for the notion of familiarity and its pragmatic significance, and adopts Rooth's (1985) notion of alternative set and utilizes it in the light of pragmatic interpretation. The basic idea of this paper is to decompose the notion alternative set into finer-grained components and to assign various levels of familiarity to those finer components, thereby helping define different kinds of focus and topic according to the properties of those sub-components.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2019

This study aims to investigate the rhythmic patterns in the English speech produced by Chinese learners of English who learn English as a foreign language (EFL learners). Utilizing interval-based rhythm metrics, namely, VarcoC, VarcoV, nPVI-C, nPVI-V, and %V, the study compared the rhythmic differences in English speech between ten native speakers from the United States and forty Chinese EFL learners from mainland China. A sentence elicitation task consisting of thirty picture prompts and corresponding thirty stimuli sentences with at least five vocalic and four consonantal intervals was conducted. Statistical results reveal that both Chinese advanced learners and beginners had significantly lower degree of stress-timed in their English speech, indicating that the acquisition of the L2 speech rhythm was influenced by the learners' L1 rhythmic pattern. In addition, the results also show that the Chinese advanced learners had significantly higher degree of stress-timed in their English speech than beginners and showed no significant difference with native speakers in VarcoC and nPVI-C. These results indicate that the direction of L2 speech rhythm development was from more syllable-timed to more stress-timed.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.435-443
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• 2022

본 연구의 목적은 중국인 학습자의 한국어 숙달도에 따른 학습동기와 학습전략의 관계를 파악하는 것이다. 이에 본 연구는 한국어능력시험 중급 이상의 성적을 취득한 한국대학과 중국대학의 학습자 101명을 대상으로 학습 동기, 학습전략 설문을 실시하고, 수준별 차이와 각 변인 간 상관관계를 파악하기 위해 SPSS 28.0 프로그램을 활용하여 빈도분석과 상관분석을 실시하였다. 연구 결과, 중국인 한국어 학습자의 한국어를 배우는 동기는 통합적 동기와 도구적 동기 순으로 높게 나타났으며, 학습전략 사용 양상은 상위인지전략이 가장 높게 나타났다. 한국어 숙달도에 따른 학습 동기의 차이는 나타나지 않았으나, 3·4급과 5급의 학습자들의 사회적 전략 사용양상에 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 연구 결과를 바탕으로 중국인 학습자를 위한 교수학습 방안을 제안하였다. 향후 초급 수준 집단의 학습자와 중·고급 집단 학습자의 학습동기와 학습전략을 비교한 추후 연구가 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2007

The study examined the effects of explicit derivational morphology instruction (henceforth DMI) on the incidental vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension of 132 Korean 1st-year high school students who responded to a battery of tests (two vocabulary tests and a reading comprehension test). Multiple statistical tools were used to analyze the data: Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Simple Regression Analysis, Tests of Simple Main Effects, and effect size computation using Cohen's d. The results indicated that (a) DMI enhanced students' ability to infer word meanings in context, (b) DMI promoted high proficiency students' reading comprehension, whereas it impeded intermediate proficiency students' reading comprehension, (c) vocabulary knowledge has a strong positive predictive value for reading comprehension, and (d) the gaps of vocabulary knowledge across proficiency levels were still substantial, despite the observation that DMI promoted students' vocabulary acquisition. These results have a bearing on English as Foreign Language (EFL) reading pedagogy.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.57-75
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• 2009

English floating quantifiers (FQ) are both limited and complex in the sense that they are introduced by a limited set of words, all, both, and each, and display free distributional possibilities. This paper provides a non-movement approach to the syntax of English floating quantifier constructions. The non-movement analysis we develop here is different from stranding movement analyses in that all the FQs are base-generated while the linkage with their antecedent refers to grammatical features such as SUBJ and PRD. The analysis avoids the postulation of abstract levels as well as empty elements in capturing the flexibility of English FQ constructions, making the grammar of English simpler.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2000년도 7월 학술대회지
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• pp.338-349
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• 2000

Pronunciation teaching is once again coming into the foreground of ELT. Japan is, however, lagging far behind many countries in the development of pronunciation curricula and in the actual speech performance of the Japanese learners of English. The reasons for this can be found in the prevalence of communicative methodologies unfavorable for pronunciation teaching, in the lack of trained professionals, and in the large numbers of students in Japanese foreign language classes. This paper offers a way to promote foreign language pronunciation teaching in Japan and other countries by means of employing computer and internet facilities. The paper outlines the major directions of using modem speech technologies in pronunciation classes, like EVF (electronic visual feedback) training at segmental and prosodic levels; automated error detection, testing, grading and fluency assessment. The author discusses the applicability of some specific software packages (CSLU, SUGIspeech, Multispeech, Wavesurfer, etc.) for the needs of pronunciation teaching. Finally, the author talks about the globalization of pronunciation education via internet resources, such as computer corpora and speech and pronunciation training related web pages.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.149-155
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• 2023

Since developing digital technology requires new skills in digital literacy, digital competence also has become a keystone in English classes. This study explores three aspects of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' digital confidence: information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, and digital content creation, based on the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp). The participants were 150 Korean college students enrolled in two general English classes, and their English proficiency levels were from basic to advanced; each level consisted of 30 participants. In order to assess their digital confidence, I designed a Google survey form and collected data during two semesters. The survey results revealed that the participants had highest digital confidence in information and data literacy and overall, the female participants showed higher digital confidence than their male counterparts. It also showed that the learners' English proficiency and computer skills are important factors.

• 한국어교육
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.337-366
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• 2017

이 연구는 미국 대학에서 제2외국어로 한국어를 배우는 영어권 학습자의 부사형 조사 '-에'의 다양한 의미론적 뜻의 습득을 고찰한다. 이 연구는 초급반, 중급반, 고급반의 45명 참가자들을 대상으로, 한국어 학습 첫 학기 교실에서 이 조사가 가르쳐 졌을 때 각 단계의 학습자들이 어떻게 그 의미를 해석하며 실제로 어떻게 사용하는가에 대한 수행능력을 중심으로 이루어졌다. 이 연구 결과는 다양한 의미론적 뜻에 대해 서로 다른 발달 과정을 보여주고 있다. 통계 분석 결과에 따르면 초급반과 중급반에서는 이 연구 과제 '-에'의 의미 중 시간과 목표, 정적인 위치적 의미의 습득이 접촉의 의미나, 개별의 의미보다 좀 더 쉽게 습득 된다는 것을 보여주고 있다. 반면에 고급반에서는 개별의 의미를 제외하고는 모든 의미론적인 의미가 거의 목표점까지 도달하였다. 이 연구는 의미론적 복합성과 다른 언어권 간의 영향과 같은 요인과 함께, 제2 언어 빈도수, 언어학적 입력, 습득 방식과 같은 다양한 요인이 '-에'의 습득에 영향을 미친다는 것을 제시하고 있다.