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Perspectives on EFL Teachers' Responding to Students' Writing at the Semantic Level

  • Chang, Kyung-Suk
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • no.3
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    • pp.185-201
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    • 1997
  • This study explores perspectives on responding to EFL students' compositions at the semantic level. In the last three decades, there has been a shift from product-oriented approach to process-oriented one to teaching writing. The shift has led to the criticism of the traditional view on teacher response. The traditional view has been under attack for its overemphasis upon form and ineffectiveness on improving student writing skill. It is also noted that research into students' reactions to the traditional teacher response has been inconclusive. The process-oriented approach, on the other hand, draws its attention to meaning and the logical development of thought as well as linguistic matters. In this context, the present study discusses what EFL teachers need to take into account in providing the semantic-level feedback on students' compositions. Firstly, teacher response to student writing is on-going; teacher feedback involves teacher intervention in the drafting process, the revision process, and the presentation of product. Secondly, in the writing conferences, the teacher provides students an opportunity to talk about writing, assistance and advice on the content/meaning of the written text, helping them expand and clarify thinking about audience(reader) and purpose.

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A Study on the problems of the AACR2R in the OPAC (OPAC에서의 AACR2R의 문제 고찰)

  • 이명규
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.119-136
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    • 1999
  • As the OPAC has been changed by the automation of library catalog, AACR2 recognized as internationally standardized Cataloging Rules, and MARC transforming to automation program have some partial irrationality. In this study, I presented the methodology improving practically and specifically Cataloging Rules adjusted to Online environment, especially centering on AACR2R, after I reviewed the literature asserting a criticism and a renewal of AACR2 and MARC.

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Criticism and Guideline for the Use of Process Capability Index (공정능력지수에 대한 비평과 올바른 공정능력분석 절차)

  • Baik, Jai-Wook;Jo, Jin-Nam
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.81-100
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    • 1999
  • Process capability indexes are widely used in industries. Nevertheless, important statistical issues that deal with the appropriate use of process capability indexes have only appeared in the technical literature and are thus unknown to many users. In this paper we will first review various kinds of process capability indexes and then try to understand how much uncertainty is associated with them in relation to the assumption of normal distribution, the estimate of ${\sigma}$, the sampling error, the size of number of observations available and the presence of data correlation. Finally, we will propose a proper use of process capability indexes in an effort to assess a complex process.

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The characteristics of confessional poetry in Robert Lowell's Life Studies (로버트 로월 "인생연구"에 나타난 고백시의 특징)

  • Yang, Hyunchul
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.253-268
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    • 2010
  • Robert Lowell is one of the major poets in the modern American poetic world. His major work, Life Studies, is a representative of confessional poetry. It presented American spiritual civilization and universality for life from the late 1950s to 1960s. It dealt with the subject of the poet's private life under the psychological pressure. Lowell described his distinctive vision of the relationship of painful world and suffering self in his poetry. An important feature of his confessional poems was the criticism on modern civilization by means of characterization. Life Studies was written as a kind of therapy to overcome his early trauma, as well as the social problems of contemporary Americans which Lowell was confronted with. Through his personal experiences, Lowell exposed and judged the collapse of traditional value and moral confusion in the society. Therefore, he is a poet who opened his own world of poetry with his poetic achievements.

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Censorship and Its Impact under the Franquismo: Focusing on novels (프랑코 체제하의 검열과 그 영향 - 문학작품 중심으로 -)

  • KIM, Son-Ung
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.33
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    • pp.7-32
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    • 2013
  • This present study focuses on Franco's censorship and its influences in the works of Carmen Martín Gaite and Miguel Delibes. We know that from the years 1940's to 1970's a very harsh censorship existed in Spain. But the authors of those times were not completely obedient to the power of the Regime. Some authors attempted to find a new way to present his novels. In fact, Between Curtains of Martín Gaite shows an ideology that advocates for women who were not valued as deserved at the time. Against Franco's totalitarianism the author indirectly revealed readers an attempt to improve the situation of women, criticizing the tradition. On the other hand, Delibes sought a new way of presenting the novel in Five Hours with Mario to avoid Franco regime's censorship. The author hid behind a character that represents Franco's politics to criticize the society of that time. The both authors as representatives of contemporary Spanish literature demonstrate that the oppression does not restrict the authors' ability to create unexpected works.

A Study on the Success Factors of TQM -Through the AHP Analysis of Japanese companies- (종합적품질경영(綜合的品質經營)(TQM)의 성공요인(成功要因)에 관한 연구(硏究) - 일본기업(日本企業)에 대한 AHP분석(分析)을 중심(中心)으로 -)

  • Yoo, Han-Joo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.33-53
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    • 1994
  • Recently, from the viewpoint of TQM, the criticism and new approaches toward Japanese TQC have made much progress in Japan. It shows that these new approaches to quality are what are needed these days. In this connection, this paper aims at the study of a reform of Japanese TQC. This paper consists of the following two steps. First, several success factors of TQM in Japanese companies were selected through the study of literature. Second, actual approaches to or recognition of TQM in those companies were examined through the AHP analysis. The results of this paper are as follows: First, quality improvement and cost-down efforts within a factory have been emphasized. On the other hand, the development of strategic quality management is weak. Second, the development of creativity by individual autonomous teamwork is more needed than the development of creativity by group consciousness in companies. Third, the reform of upper-class management must be carried out by powerful leadership of top management.

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Some Notes on the Temporal Single-System Interpretation of Marxian Value Theory (마르크스 가치론의 이시적 단일체계 해석에 대한 몇 가지 비판적 논점)

  • Park, Hyun Woong
    • 사회경제평론
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.105-126
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, I makes some critical comments on the temporal single-system interpretation (TSSI) of Marxian value theory. The first concerns the claim that the Fundamental Marxian Theorem (FMT) holds within the TSSI under completely general conditions. Based on the idea that the nominal profit does not well fit the FMT, the TSSI proponents suggest that more relevant for proving the TSSI FMT is the real profit, defined by deflating the output prices. In contrast, I propose a more general approach where three possible concepts of profit are all considered, in which case the result is that whether the FMT holds within the TSSI is indeterminate. Second, the refutation of the Okishio theorem presented in Kliman (1996) is critically examined, focusing on the criticism raised in the literature that the Kliman model ignores the cost-reduction criterion as for the technical change and therefore cannot be considered as an internal refutation of the Okishio theorem. Drawing upon the criticism, I explicitly incorporate the cost-reduction criterion into the Kliman model and show that the continuous labor-saving technical change of the Kliman model is not necessarily cost-reducing and under certain conditions is cost-neutral or cost-raising.

Wine, Madness and Bad Blood: Re-Reading Imperialism in Jane Eyre (포도주, 광기 그리고 나쁜 피 -『제인 에어』 속 제국주의 다시 읽기)

  • Kim, Kyoung-sook
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.339-365
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    • 2011
  • Charlotte $Bront{\ddot{e}}^{\prime}s$ novel Jane Eyre has long been doted on as one of the canonized texts of British literature since its publication. Seemingly, this romantic novel has nothing to do with plantation based on slave trade. However, paying a keen attention to the fact that Jane's enormous inheritance results from wine plantation at a colony, this essay re-interprets Bertha's drinking and madness as evidence of imperialism. For the porter/jin Bertha and Grace Poole enjoy might have some suspicious connection with wine, the very root of Jane's great expectations. Jean Ryes' Wide Sargasso Sea, writing Jane Eyre back, records Bertha as "a white resident of the West Indies, a colonizer of European descent" (326). However, Jane Eyre, in my interpretation, describes Bertha pretty much as a black Creole. At any rate, the view that the white West Indians are tainted by miscegenation proves contemporary racism and is reflected in the text through Bertha and her mother's intemperate drinking and madness. Drinking and madness are stigmatized as the evidence of the so-called "bad blood"; embodying the stereotypes of drinking, madness, and sexual corruption, Creoles, the very inescapable product of imperialism, provide a convenient excuse for justifying imperialism for purity, civilization, and moral cleanness. In this way, Jane Eyre needs to be re-interpreted politically and historically in the context of colonialism. British imperialism pursues a tremendous amount of profits through grape plantation and wine trades; however, it cleverly leaves in the colony the associated images such as intemperate drinking and madness. Bertha, transferred from Jamaica to Britain, takes in these negative images of "savageness." Transcending the narrow confines of feminist criticism obsessed with doubling between Bertha and Jane, this essay, accordingly, reads Bertha the prisoner in the attic as the captive for perpetuating imperialism. This reading hinges upon interpreting Rochester and St John as colonizers bearing the so-called "white men's burden" to cultivate and civilize savages much like crops such as grapes and sugarcane in the colonial plantation.

Evolutionism and Literature: Rediscovery of Metaphor, Narrative, and Mind (진화론과 문학: 은유, 서사, 마음의 재발견)

  • Oh, Cheol-Woo
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.223-249
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    • 2014
  • The influences of sciences on literature have been much researched as relatively familiar themes, and especially the impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory has been interesting research themes on 19th-century history and "Two Cultures". This article outlines the impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on literatures of the 19th-century British and enlightening-and-colonial-era Korea focusing on some significant features of literary changes, with help of existing researches. It will also give a brief overview of evolutionary psychology as a new perspective of literary criticism. In particular, it will try to show that many transformations of poems and novels appeared diversely depending on different circumstances and various religious or social beliefs societies and individuals were facing and having, and that new understanding of metaphor, narrative, and mind through rediscovery of nature, human and evolution underlay the big changes of literatures.

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American imperialism and Korean wolf - A Study on the Anti-American Viewpoint in the Period of 'the Homeland Liberation War' (미제와 승냥이 - '조국해방전쟁'기의 반미관에 대한 연구)

  • Nam, Wonjin
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.25
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    • pp.213-236
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    • 2011
  • The negative symbol of 'American imperialism', which was reinterpreted superimposed on the symbol imposed on Japanese imperialism in the 1945 Liberation of Korea, was more amplified added by the experiences of the bombing and massacre by US troops during the Korean War. In other words, the symbol of the extreme 'American imperialism' in the liberation in which even the role of America contributing to the liberation of Josun had been denied had continued for a long time adhered to and amplified through the war. Thus, unlike the current emphasis laid by North Josun, the assertion in the form of 'American imperialism=Korean wolf' is an idea made from the mixture of fact and fiction combined with the theory of imperialism rediscovered in the liberation and the experience of massacre during the Korean War. And this superimposed symbol for American imperialism naturally causes the problem of being superimposed also on the symbol of North Josun. And the extreme formalization for 'good' and 'bad' sides was based on the dichotomous compositions of beauty and ugliness, good and evil. The ground for saying that an act by a good side is 'unconditionally' legitimate is nowhere found. The anti-American viewpoint rediscovered in such an extreme form results in one aspect of criticism and resemblance as a result of being locked up in the same violence which one has rejected by oneself. The anti-American viewpoint going on in the form of anti-imperialist nationalism leaves nothing except another terrible retaliation for terrible brutality. It is self-evident that one can never get out of the enchanting power of imperialism which North Josun has continuously criticized in a ring of violence and vengeance, the familiar grammar commanded by North Josun literature.