• 아동학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.297-308
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• 2009

The study abroad phenomenon at an early age in Korea is increasing steadily. Increasing social demand for global leaders, disappointment in Korean educational system and economic growth are motivating more students to study abroad. The study abroad is a social phenomenon that is widespread across all social status in Korea. This study tries to examine the phenomenon in respect to social, psychological, educational and economical perspectives and seek future research questions. The findings suggest ways to improve Korean educational system, support students currently or planning to study abroad and to re-adjust in Korea after they come back. A balanced perspective is necessary in viewing study abroad phenomenon, rather than preventing, implementing stronger pulling factors in Korean educational system. It is necessary to hold the study abroad as another educational opportunity.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.38-43
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• 2017

Many students prefer to study abroad to increase their chances of having a better future. While studying abroad they may encounter difficulties such as adapting to the culture of the country they are studying in. Chinese students coming to Korea are no exception to this, and when they are studying abroad, the new environment they are in may cause them hardships which may impact on their social life and even their academic performance. In order to develop their careers, they face many difficulties and challenges. Cultural differences they experience may change their attitudes, thoughts, and values. This research focuses on international students who are not yet certain about their future plans. In order to grasp levels of daily life satisfaction, ease of communication, and future planning orientation, this study conducted a survey of Chinese students who study in Korea. The empirical analysis showed that students with high level of life satisfaction have a tendency to enter graduate school. However, communication has no relation to future planning orientation.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1221-1221
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• 2022

Studying abroad in and of itself should be a unique and transformational learning experience for university students. Too often, "study abroad" is a code word for "faculty vacation" or "easy credit hours". For an international learning experience to be truly transformational it must offer an intense and directed program that maximizes the time the student spends in the accumulation of information that is new or different from what the student has "learned" previously. "Study abroad" may be a misnomer because it is not only about studying in another country or culture, that is, taking courses that usually have an attendance time of a few hours a week, but it is also about living in another country which becomes a 24/7 learning experience. Providing these programs during the Covid-19 pandemic has been a keen opportunity for institutional learning. When this immersion in foreign culture is combined with academic rigor applied to a student's chosen field of study the growth can be exponential. So, what is the relationship between academic and personal growth? The National Association for Study Abroad has found that "students who have studied abroad are better able to work with people from other countries, understand the complexity of global issues, and have greater intercultural learning. One study found that students returned from their study abroad experiences more tolerant and less fearful of other countries, but with a greater sense of nationalism-a phenomenon they called 'enlightened nationalism'." It is often said that "you only really learn to appreciate things that are important to you when they are gone, when you miss them." The international learning environment can provide this opportunity. The restrictions on various societies in the past two years due to the international Covid pandemic have provided existing study abroad programs with a true testing ground for the validity of their programs. At the end of the day, American colleges and universities are not helpless in the face of these developments. A lot depends on how a university positions itself for a future based on the uncertainties of the past. As Winston Churchill was working to form the United Nations after WWII, he famously said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste". In another context, Churchill's insight on human nature can also be applied to the coming semesters and years as studying abroad rebounds. What new strategies will be developed and maintained? Institutional commitment without fear will be necessary to assure that "studying abroad" will continue to develop as a truly unique and transformational learning experience.

• Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.13-25
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• 2014

The goal of this study was to examine the correlations of stress coping strategies and cultural, psychological and school adjustment among Korean early study-abroad adolescents in the United States. Participants were 437 Korean early study-abroad adolescents aged 15 to 18 years old enrolled in summer language institutes located in Seoul and Gyeonggido, South Korea. The survey consisted of questionnaires relating to coping strategies and, cultural, psychological and school adjustments. The data was collected during the break time of summer language institute classes. Results showed that these adolescents' problem focused and social support coping strategies were positively related with acculturation, psychological adjustment and school adjustment, and emotion focused coping strategy was positively related to satisfaction of life.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.137-156
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• 2009

This case study examines language learners' oral interactive practices and what they learn along with these practices. Language learners who study abroad take on the challenge of living in a foreign place and undergo difficulties in communicating and interacting with people in their new country. These difficulties, caused by cultural differences, are experienced most particularly in their daily interactions. Language learners' trials and efforts to learn English while dealing with a different culture and the difficulties are mainly observed for this paper. The process of learning a second culture is closely related to the process of learning a second language. Oral interactive practices can give the study abroad language learners opportunities to learn their target culture. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss how participating in interactive practices assists the learners in understanding their target culture while they deal with their difficulties inherent in studying abroad. This study adds weight to the notion that culture is an essential and major factor in learning a language, and that only active participation in interactions can be effective in learning both a language and its culture.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제32권
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• pp.81-107
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• 2013

This study examines pre-college study abroad (PSA, Chogi yuhak), which is one of the fastest growing phenomena among the various efforts for Koreans to learn English. The discussion includes the reasons why PSA has become so popular in the last decade under the name of globalization, the problems it has caused, and its new impact that this phenomenon has on Korean mothers. This study argues that PSA boom provides Korean mothers with an opportunity to pursue their own self-realization by studying abroad with their school aged children. These "new wild geese" mothers, who make double investments in their own education as well as in their children's in the U.S. represent important aspects of the contemporary Korean society regarding education, gender and neoliberal social atmosphere.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.636-643
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• 2016

국내 문화재와 관련된 여러 재단은 해외 한국문화재 소장 기관의 협조를 얻어 국외소재 한국문화재를 조사하고 있고, 조사 결과는 보존 복원 및 전시, 교육 등의 활용기반이 되고 있다. 국외에서 한국문화재에 대한 연구조사 및 전시 등의 활용은 활성화 되어있는 반면 국내는 연구조사 결과를 통한 활용의 사례가 많지 않으며, 국외소재문화재에 대한 접근성 또한 낮다. 본 연구의 목적은 국외소재 한국문화재에 대해 국내에서의 활용할 수 있는 방안을 모색하는 것이며, 디스플레이 전시와 온라인 박물관은 국외소재 한국문화재를 활용할 수 있는 방안이 될 수 있을 것이다. 이를 통해 국외소재 한국문화재에 대한 접근성을 높이고 전시, 교육 등 다양한 분야로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.415-424
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• 2021

유학생활은 학교에서 뿐만 아니라 경제, 사회적 관계, 문화 등 다양한 영역에서 이루어지기 때문에 각 영역별로 만족수준은 개인마다 상이하게 나타날 수 있다. 따라서 유학생활의 질적인 수준을 제고하기 위해서는 이를 고려하여 다차원적으로 접근할 필요가 있다. 이에 본 연구는 외국인 유학생의 유학생활만족도를 다차원적으로 접근하여 탐색하였다. 이를 분석하기 위해 잠재집단분석을 적용하여 하위집단을 식별하였으며, 집단분류에 영향요인을 검증하기 위해 다항로지스틱회귀모형을 적용하였다. 분석결과는 크게 2가지로 정리된다. 하나는 유학생활만족도가 상이한 하위집단이 식별되었다. 하위집단은 주거, 경제, 사회적 관계, 학업, 문화 등 5가지 영역별로 상이한 만족수준을 보였으며, 단일차원에서는 발견되지 않는 집단들을 식별해냈다. 두 번째는 집단분류에 영향을 미친 요인은 학업적 요인, 심리·정서적 요인, 환경적 요인이 복합적으로 작용하였다. 특히, 하위집단별로 예측요인은 상이하게 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 연구결과를 바탕으로 외국인 유학생의 유학생활만족수준을 제고하기 위한 실천적, 정책적 제언을 모색하고자 한다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제51권
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• pp.103-131
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• 2018

본 연구는 한국의 대학교에서 유학하고 있는 외국인 유학생들의 동기에 대해서 조사하고자 한다. 질적연구방법과 혼합연구방법을 사용한 본 연구는 6개 과목의 학습 본질을 설명할 수 있는 학생 인터뷰, 에세이, 디지털 스토리텔링 비디오 및 학생 제작 동영상으로부터 얻은 데이터를 근거이론(grounded theory)을 통해 분석하였다. 모든 과목은 2014학년부터 2017학년까지 영어교육 과정에 등록되었다. 본 연구자는 이 과정의 교수자였다. 데이터 분석에서 나타난 주요 범주가 경제력, 문화, 언어학습 및 자기개발이었다는 것이 본 연구의 결과에서 나타났으며, 외국인 유학생의 동기에 관한 대부분의 연구문헌의 결과를 입증한다(OUSO, 2015). 그러나 본 연구와 문헌에서 제시된 동기의 범주가 본질적으로 담론적(discursive)이었다는 것을 전문 문헌과 연구 데이터의 조사가 보여주는데 그 이유는 각 범주가 다른 모든 범주와 연관되어 있을 뿐만 아니라 서로 상호구성주의적(co-constructive)이기 때문이다. 이와 같이 본 연구가 시사하는 바는 유학 관련 문헌에서 발견된 동기의 범주가 본질적으로 담론적이라는 것이며, 이는 부르디외의 경제, 사회 및 문화 자본론(1991)과 유사하다. 본 연구의 결과는 유학의 다양한 동기가 비용과 경력 개발이라는 경제 논리하에 존재한다는 것을 시사한다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2015

본 연구의 목적은 상징적 상호작용론적 견해에 바탕을 둔 근거이론 방법을 이용하여 간호대학생의 전공 융합한 해외 단기연수 경험에 대한 실체이론을 도출하고, 해외 단기연수가 나아가야 할 방향을 조명하는데 있다. 연구결과를 보면 참여자들은 연수 후 경험으로 내 안의 또 다른 '나'를 발견하고 더 넓은 세상으로 나가고자 하는 열망이 강하게 생기면서 삶에 대한 태도를 변화하기 시작하였고 이는 자아성숙으로 나타났다. 그러나 일부 참여자는 현실에 짓눌려 열망을 내려놓고 예전 삶으로의 회귀를 나타내기도 하였다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 볼 때, 전공 융합한 해외 단기연수 후에는 반드시 추후 프로그램을 운영하여 긍정적으로 변화된 열망, 동기, 자신감 등을 강화 유지시켜 주는 것이 필요하고, 개인 성향에 따른 맞춤형 추후 프로그램을 운영하는 것이 요구된다. 또한 추후 프로그램 운영 시 연수에 참여한 학생들에 대한 주기적인 평가를 통해 추후 시점마다 심리적 또는 교육적 지지자원을 분배 투입하는 것이 필요하다.