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Analysis of the typology of errors in French's pronunciation by Arabs and proposition for the phonetic correction: Based on the Younes's research paper (아랍어권 학습자들에 의한 프랑스어 발음 오류의 유형 분류와 개선 방안: Younes의 논문을 중심으로)

  • JUNG, Il-Young
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.27
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    • pp.7-29
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    • 2012
  • This study was aimed to analyze - focusing on the thesis of Younes - the pronunciation error occuring mostly for Arabian speakers to learn French pronunciation for Arabians and to suggest the effective study plan to improve such errors and provide the effective studying method. The first part is on how the Arabic and French pronunciation system are distinguished, especially by comparing and analyzing the system of graphemes and phonemes, with which we focused on the fact that Arabian is a language centralized on consonants, while French is a verb-centered language. In the second part, we mainly discussed the cause and the types of errors occurring when Arabic speakers study French pronunciation. As of the category of mistakes, we separated them into consonants and verbs. We assumed the possible method which can be used in learning, focusing on /b/, /v/, /p/, /b/ - in case of non-verbs and consonants - and /y/, /ø/, - in case of verbs - which don't exist in Arabic pronunciation system. One of the troubles the professors in Arabian culture have in teaching French to native learners is how to solve the problem on a phonetic basis regarding speaking and reading ability, which belong to verbal skill, among the critical factors of foreign language education, which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. In fact, the problems occuring in learning foreign language are had by not only Arabian learners but also general groups of people who learn the foreign language, the pronunciation system of which is distinctly distinguished from their mother tongue. The important fact professors should recognize regarding study of pronunciation is that they should encourage the learners to reach the acceptable level in proper communication rather than push them to have the same ability as the native speakers, Even though it cannot be said that the methods suggested in this study have absolute influence in reducing errors when learning French pronunciation system, I hope it can be at least a small help.

Utilization Plan of Blended Learning - Focused on NHK「NEWS WEB EASY」- (블랜디드러닝(Blended Learning)활용방안 - NHK「NEWS WEB EASY」를 중심으로 -)

  • Yu, Mi Sun
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.119-124
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to introduce the NHK"NEWS WEB EASY"online site to intermediate level learners of Japanese language, and to teach effective methods of Blended Learning through the lesson planning method using "NEWS WEB EASY" Suggesting. First, this paper helped students cultivate various vocabulary learning ability through Blended Learning using "NEWS WEB EAS Y", Second, helped them learn about Japanese culture and Japan through various articles, Third, helped them naturally perform listening training through listening files, Fourth, helped them practice reading Kanji and improve vocabulary skills by distributing the files without Furigana to them for search, and Fifth, showed them how to improve speaking ability by reading practice through learning using "NEWS WEB EASY". We could learn the fact that the study helped students a lot understand Japan and improve their Japanese ability by learning news articles that they could not come across due to prejudice through learning using "NEWS WEB EASY".

The Effect of Novel Engineering (NE) Education using VR authoring tool on STEAM literacy and Learning Immersion (VR 저작도구 기반 노벨 엔지니어링(NE) 교육이 초등학생의 융합인재소양과 학습몰입에 미치는 효과)

  • Song, Hae-nam;Kim, Tae-ryeong
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.153-165
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    • 2022
  • This study is about the Novel Engineering(NE) education program : a class model that combines reading and engineering. By including the process of directly designing and programming a virtual reality using CospacesEdu (a VR authoring tool for the NE class), the effects of the educational program on learners' STEAM literacy and Learning immersion are demonstrated. Moreover, the subject of this education is Dokdo in South Korea. As a result, the average of STEAM literacy is increased, and a significant change is confirmed statistically in Convergence. Learning immersion shows significant improvement in Challenges-skills balance. On the other hand, some students experience difficulties due to the long research stages, from reading a book to researching for information to designing VR and rewriting a story with the collected information. In conclusion, this study will help generalise other education using NE, and this developed program will be a reference that would suggest a new way of teaching.

중국인 학습자를 위한 문화교육으로서 한·중 소설 비교읽기 -4.19와 문화대혁명을 중심으로-

  • Jeon, Yeong-Ui;Eom, Yeong-Uk
    • 중국학논총
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    • no.62
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    • pp.85-100
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    • 2019
  • The article purpose is 'Reading Chinese translation text as a Korean integrated education for Chinese students'. Although number of foreign students has increased rapidly to the economic growth of Korea, the influence of Korean Wave, and the popularity of Korean popular culture like K-pop at domestic universities but the problems of their curriculum have been found in many places. Korean literary education through novel text has an important place in Korean studies, but literary education is often excluded in Korean language education as a foreign language education. Chinese students already have background knowledge of Korean translation novels through Chinese novels. They can get the learning effect as the Korean language study. Second, they can compared with Korean national violence and Chinese national violence through 'Red Revolution' and understand about Korean-Chinese understanding of the times, social and cultural phenomena, Third, they are able to study the theory of literature itself. also It was the educational purpose pursued by the humanities. Chinese students develop their Korean language skills by studying the Brothers which are translated into Korean, and we can see the similarities and differences of national violence by comparing Korea's '4.19' with China's 'Cultural Revolution' After comparing people, background, dynamics of the space where they are located, we can raise awareness of the historical and social problems of both countries. It is possible to study subjects' memories of space, change of local meaning, the formation of urban space or individual space in the text in the specific space where national violence occurs. In this way, the method of learning Korean integrated education through Brothers of the Chinese translation novels makes an opportunity to look at national violence in the Korean-Chinese space of the 1960s and 1970s. It has a subjective perspective from subordination to the nationality of the modern nation-state. This is an educational effect that can be obtained through reading a Chinese translation novel as a Korean language integrated education.

Factors influencing Evidence-Based Practice Attitudes among Undergraduate Nursing Students (간호대학생에서 근거기반실무 태도에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Choi, Mi-Hyang;Kim, Young-Hae;Son, Hyun-Mi
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.274-282
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This study is aimed at identifying factors influencing attitudes of Evidence-Based Practice among nursing students. Methods: 202 nursing students were recruited from B city and G district. The questionnaires included critical thinking dispositions, information retrieval skills, knowledge and attitudes of Evidence-Based Practice, and characteristics. Data were analyzed by SPSS/Win 21.0 using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and stepwise multiple regressions. Results: The average score of undergraduate nursing students for Evidence-Based Practice attitudes was $32.92{\pm}4.57$. Evidence-Based Practice attitudes had positive correlation with critical thinking disposition (r=.53, p<.001), information retrieval skills (r=.45, p<.001) and Evidence-Based Practice knowledge (r=.42, p<.001). Factors influencing Evidence-Based Practice attitudes were critical thinking dispositions (${\beta}=.45$) and Evidence-Based Practice knowledge (${\beta}=.30$). Total variance was explained about 35.3% (F=55.80, p<.001). Conclusion: These results show that teaching strategies that enhance critical thinking dispositions are recommended to improve Evidence-Based Practice attitudes among nursing students. Also, nursing education should include a regular Evidence-Based Practice curriculum to improve Evidence-Based Practice knowledge as is necessary for students to improve information retrieval skill. Reading nursing articles can help nursing students comprehend the up-to-data evidence of clinical practice.

A Study on Visual Metaphors that appear in the Stage Design of Bob Crowley - Focused on the stage design of 'AIDA' - (밥 크로울리 무대디자인에 나타나는 시각적 은유에 관한 연구 - 뮤지컬 '아이다' 무대디자인을 중심으로 -)

  • Hwang, Su-Yeon;Yoon, Jae-Eun
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2013
  • The main purpose of (the) performing arts is to efficiently communicate the themes and meanings which performances contain under limited time and place to the audience. Stage design should visually express play writer's scripts and director's interpretations of works, amid limitations. Although it is mostly designed metaphorically, in many cases, it is used only as a tool describing the background of performances but fails to effectively convey the true message of scenes to spectators. On the other hand, Bob Crowley has been recognized for his own design presentation skills to win 'Best Scenic Design of a Musical' of Tony Awards for six times and still exerts great influence on the musical and performing arts fields as a set designer. This study analyzes his reading of scripts and visual metaphor expressions, focusing on the musical, 'Aida' where the skills are mostly notable. To that end, we studied the concept of stage arts and theory of visual metaphoric expression to derive the features of his own technique in visual metaphor. Then, the features were applied to each scene of 'Aida' to see how they are displayed on stage. The result shows that Bob Crowley not only describes the background on stage, but also visualizes characters' personality and emotions in scenes. Such method of his expression is a proof to enhanced performance level by maximizing the atmosphere. Considering that a stage design should be based on the capacity of a designer to reinterpret the space with renewed viewpoints, visual metaphoric expression can serve as an effective tool to deliver clear messages to the audience under limited time and space, which is open to various methods of expressions.

Using Multimedia to Improve Listening Comprehension in the EFL Classroom

  • Park, Seung-Won
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.105-115
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    • 2003
  • The four skills of a language are basically required for a communication. They are very important for a learner to develop the balanced language acquisition. Today both listening and speaking skills are emphasized in the global era rather than reading and writing proficiencies. The reason is really why the learners' communicative competence is more needed than the accurate knowledge of a structure in the language. For this reason, the listening comprehension should be taught effectively using the following strategies. First, the sound difference of a language must be taught. Language is a complicated process to convey the comprehensive meaning combined with the internal and external factors of a language. In other words, the meaning for the sound of language should be transmitted by the unit of vocabulary and syntax. Second, a good listening comprehension requires the familiarity and much experience with a lot of English words to understand English sentences unconsciously. Third, as understanding the structure of language is effective for the listening comprehension, the better listening comprehension can be possible through the meaningful exercise. Fourth, the compound process of listening comprehension requires the comprehensive understanding of language, but not the separate understanding of language. Fifth, the appropriate application of the multimedia courseware helps improve the listening comprehension better than that of the existing audio, video, tape recorder and so on. Using multimedia courseware is useful as follows: A learner is able to take as much lesson as he/she wants. It does take little time to repeat about what he/she takes a lesson. It gives the lively picture with the native speakers' voices. It gives him/her(a learner) a feedback effect continuously through the interaction of computer. It controls his/her lesson in accordance with the level of a learner.

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An Analysis of Elements for Teacher Librarians' Educational Information Services Embedded in Common Inquiry Tasks of World History Territory in Korean Middle School History Studies (중학교 「역사」 교과서 세계사 영역의 공통 탐구 과제에 포함된 사서교사의 교육정보서비스 요소 분석)

  • Song, Gi-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.50 no.2
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    • pp.5-23
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze common inquiry tasks of middle school history textbooks and find out it's implications on teacher librarians' educational information services. There are 84 common inquiry tasks according to examinations of inquiry tasks related to world history in 18 kinds of middle school history textbooks. Results of the analysis show that almost all of common inquiry tasks of world history make middle school students who should resolve them research the pictures and reading materials included in the textbooks individually and verbalize under the information literacy process. Compared with information literacy process of the "Library and Information Skills" for middle schools, the First step of task definition and figuring out information needs and the Third step of representation of information are being implemented. For this reason, teacher librarian could reduce history studies teachers' burden of running the class and promote students' inquiry activities by teaching skills of information analysis and interpretation, synthesis and organization and evaluation of their information literacy process and results.

A Basic Study on the Selection of Educational Contents for Cultivating Global Business Communication Competence (글로벌 비즈니스 커뮤니케이션 역량 배양을 위한 교육내용 개발에 대한 기초연구)

  • Kim, Bu-Ja
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.91-100
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for the selection of educational contents when developing a course for cultivating global business communication competence. Reviewing previous studies on sub-elements of global competence, the researcher selected the sub-elements of global business communication competence. A survey was conducted on 148 employees of 20 companies regarding the importance of the sub-elements of global business communication competence. As a result, it was concluded that the sub-elements of relatively high importance-English email writing, reading and understanding of English materials and documents, telephone English, business English conversation, understanding of other cultures, communication skills, business knowledge-should be included in the educational contents of a course for cultivating global business communication competence.

Literary Texts in the English Classroom: An Integrated Approach to English Instruction (영어 교실의 문학 텍스트 -영어교육의 통합적 접근)

  • Kang, Gyu Han
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.107-128
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    • 2009
  • Literature had been at center-stage in the traditional grammar-translation-focused English classrooms up to the mid-twentieth century. As the Audiolingual Method and the Communicative Language Teaching have gained popularity in the English classrooms, however, literature has receded into the background of English education. The main reasons for using literary texts in the English classrooms for communication-focused English instruction need to be examined. First of all, students can come in touch with the subtle and varied uses of language through literature-based teaching. They also feel close to certain characters in the literary work and share the emotional reponses with them. They get personally involved in the plot of the story. Universal human experience and cultural enrichment are two other merits which can be conferred on students by literary texts. Such linguistic and literary experiences can be significantly integrated into the literature-based instruction. More significantly, the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) can be combined with one another and integrated into a literature-focused curriculum for English education. The value of literary texts in the English classrooms can be clearly demonstrated by effective ways of using such texts as Charlotte's Web for integrated instruction. The full array of benefits that literature can bring to English instruction, however, has yet to be fully realized. These potentials need to be materialized into classroom practice.