• 음성과학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.157-175
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• 2000

The aim of this paper was to diagnose Korean college students' listening skills on the TOEFL. The researchers identified which section, among the TOEFL listening Part A, B, and C, is most easily teachable/ improvable during the period of a semester. First, the result of this research shows that Korean students tend to have lower scores in Part A than Part B or Part C. The results indicate that the short informal conversation doesn't give sufficient clues to students, and they don't have enough time to infer the answer. Second, the results revealed that. students showed the lowest progress in Part B after they studied TOEFL listening items and essential idioms for the listening section for 13 weeks. Because students didn't have much experience learning the informal conversation as opposed to the formal one in English, it is harder to achieve an improved grade in Part B, which consists of the informal conversation. But after a semester-long listening course, the average score on TOEFL listening sections increased.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2010

This study aims at investigating the linguistic and educational factors affecting TOEFL scores, focusing on three OECD countries, Korea, Japan, and Finland. The data comprise document analysis on curriculums, websites, and literature. The findings reveal that the number of Korean test-takers and their TOEFL scores gradually increased year by year. Finnish test-takers consistently gained greatly high scores, and Japanese examinees showed the lowest scores. The languages Korean, Japanese, and Finnish are all far distant from English and receive little support on historical grounds from the Indo-European family tree. In Finland, however, Swedish which belongs to Indo-European languages is still used as an official language with Finnish. Korea and Finland adopt English education from Year 3 in primary school, whereas English is not an official subject in primary school at present in Japan. Finnish students are taught a foreign language in addition to English from primary school. These seem to support the result of the high TOEFL scores of Finnish test-takers. This study concludes that social context which includes linguistic and educational environments are the main factors which affect TOEFL scores.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.153-171
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• 2003

The scores of TOEFL, TOEIC, and TEPS have been increasingly used for many purposes in Korea. In particular, these test scores are being used as a predictor for determining readiness for and success in college work, or as a measure of the testees' overall English proficiency. Nonetheless, studies have rarely proposed that the validity of the test scores is used for either purpose. As a preliminary step to explore the predictive validity of the test scores, we collected the scores of TOEFL, TOEIC, and TEPS from thirty students of a university as well as their cumulative grade point averages (GPAs). The correlations between the test scores and GPAs show that TOEFL will be most likely to have the highest validity coefficient as a predictor for determining success in college work as well as a measure of overall English proficiency. Although this study has a few limitations such as the small number of participants, their homogeneousness as a group, etc., it provides some insight into the use of the three tests for college admissions and measurement of overall English proficiency and suggests need for conducting further validation studies in these areas.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.919-922
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 판단 보조 시스템으로써의 기능을 수행하는 Artificial Neural Network(ANN) 시스템의 응용과 설계를 수행하였다. ANN 시스템의 응용에 있어 실질적으로 활용이 가능한 미 경영대학원 진학 희망자들을 위한 학교 선별 시스템을 구현하였다. 미국 소재의 대부분의 경영대학원에서는 입학 지원자의 평가항목으로써 대학평점(GPA), TOEFL(Test Of English as Foreign Language), GMAT(Graduate Management Admission Test), Essay 그리고 실무 경력을 요구한다. 본 논문에서 소개하는 학교 선별 시스템에서는 이러한 평가 항목 중 객관적인 평가가 가능하고 수치화 할 수 있는 세가지 요소만을 고려했다. 즉, Essay와 실무 경력과 같은 평가항목은 각 학교별 다소 주관적인 평가가 이루어지기 때문에 배제하고 보다 객관적이라고 할 수 있는 GPA, TOEFL. GMAT 만을 평가 항목으로 고려했다. 일반적으로 경영대학원에서는 최소의 TOEFL 점수를 요구하고 있다는 점을 고려해 TOEFL 점수에 우선 순위를 두고 각 학교를 크게 4개의 그룹으로 나누어 4개의 각기 다른 Network를 설계했다 최소 5년 이상의 유학 상담 경험이 있는 현직 전문가들을 통해 본 논문에서 소개하는 시스템의 성능을 검증 받았다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.191-210
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• 2004

The scores of TOEFL, TOEIC and TEPS have been increasingly used for many purposes in Korea In particular, these test scores are being used as a measure of the test-takers' overall communicative competence. Nonetheless, few studies have been conducted that investigate the validity of the test scores used for this purpose. As a preliminary step to explore the validity of the test scores, we conducted a small scale study by comparing 30 university students' scores in TOEFL, TOElC and TEPS with their class performances in English conversation and composition courses. The correlations between the test scores and the grade point averages of the courses show that the test scores are much harder to use as a valid measure of test-takers' overall communicative competence than usually thought to be and that the score in TOEFL is, nonetheless, a more reliable measure than the ones in the other tests. Although tins study has a few limitations such as the small number of participants, the homogeneity of the sample as a group, etc, it provides some insight into the use of the three tests for measurement of overall communicative proficiency and suggests need for conducting further validation studies in these areas.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2004

e러닝을 교육과 학습을 위하여 e비즈니스 기술 및 서비스를 사용하는 응용프로그램이다. 이는 원격지 자원과 서비스에 접근을 수월하게 함으로서 교육의 질을 높이기 위한 새로운 멀티미디어 및 인터넷 기술을 사용한다. 본 논문은 실제 TOEFL CBT에 기반을 두어 신중하게 설계되고 구현된 인터넷기반의 시험 시스템에 대하여 기술한다. 본 시스템은 콘텐츠 전달 기술, 컴퓨터 적응형 시험 알고리즘, 리뷰엔진으로 구성되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 컴퓨터기반 시험 시스템을 설계 및 구현 시 고려사항들에 대하여 서술한다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.113-132
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• 2004

This study aims to suggest desirable directions through analyzing English test items of college entrance examinations(CEE) in Korea, China, and Japan. To achieve this, English test items of Scholastic Ability Test(SAT) in Korea were compared with those of CEE in China and Japan, and test items of TOEFL and IELTS. It was found that there were not many items for testing productive skills relatively to the tests of other countries including TOEFL and IELTS. Especially, there were integrated items for writing test in China. In case of speaking test, all the other country adopted direct ways like interview and oral test, not indirect test as in the SAT in Korea. It is suggested that there need to be included test items comprising long passages in order to measure extensive reading ability. It can be suggested that doze test be adopted for testing integrated proficiency of English.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2000년도 7월 학술대회지
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• pp.88-95
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• 2000

This paper attempts to investigate characteristic features of Japanese EFL learners' English intonation and how their Japanese accents are affecting their English intonation, focusing on a comparison between the accent patterns of Japanese compounds and the stress patterns of English compounds. It is based on research dedicated to helping to improve the teaching and learning of English intonation (prosody) for Japanese EFL learners. It examines the Fundamental Frequency (henceforth Fx) contours of two EFL college students, one specializing in English and the other in Japanese. Both of them may be considered upper intermediate EFL students with their TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) scores ranging between 500 and 550.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2009

현재 수많은 서비스가 인터넷을 통해서 제공되며 이러한 추세는 계속해서 심화될 것으로 보인다. 전통적인 시험 방식 또한 인터넷을 이용한 시험으로 대체되고 있으며, 미국 ETS의 IBT TOEFL이 그 대표적인 예로 볼 수 있다. 뿐만 아니라 IT와 관련한 많은 시험들이 인터넷 기반으로 진행되고 있으며, 이와 관련한 논의가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 인터넷을 이용한 시험은 수험생들의 접근성을 높일 수 있으며 경제적이기 때문에 기존 출석 방식의 시험에 비해서 많은 장점을 가질 수 있다. 본 논문은 인터넷 기반의 자동 시험 플랫폼을 위한 브라우저 및 서버 프로그램을 개발하는 것을 목표로 하고 있으며, 기존의 2-계층 시스템들과는 달리 3-계층 기반으로 구현하였다. Visual Studio.Net 2005와 SQL Server 2000 개발 도구를 사용하였으며, ASP.NET 2.0 개발 플랫폼을 기반으로 하였다. ADO.NET을 사용하여 데이터베이스에 접근하였으며, 프로그램 언어로는 C#을 사용하여 구현하였다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.123-142
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• 2009

The present study used multi-faceted Rasch measurement to explore the characteristics and bias patterns of non-native raters when they scored L2 writing tasks. Three raters scored 254 writing tasks written by Korean university students on two topics adapted from the TOEFL Test of Written English (TWE). The written products were assessed using a five-category rating scale (Content, Organization, Language in Use, Grammar, and Mechanics). The raters only showed a difference in severity with regard to rating categories but not in task types. Overall, the raters scored Grammar most harshly and Organization most leniently. The results also indicated several bias patterns of ratings with regard to the rating categories and task types. In rater-task bias interactions, each rater showed recurring bias patterns in their rating between two writing tasks. Analysis of rater-category bias interaction showed that the three raters revealed biased patterns across all the rating categories though they were relatively consistent in their rating. The study has implications for the importance of rater training and task selection in L2 writing assessment.