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A study on vocabulary instruction to improve English communicative competence: Focus on English verbs (의사소통 능력을 높여주는 어휘 지도에 대한 연구: 동사를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Bu-Ja
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.131-158
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of the present study is to explore an effective way of teaching English vocabulary which is geared toward improving students' English communicative competence. This study focuses on English verbs, which may be followed by patterns according to subcategorization. Learning verbs must include learning about patterns as well as meaning in order to improve the ability to use verbs receptively and productively, or communicative competence. On the basis of the language progression proposed by Willis (2003), a teaching strategy which helps learners learn English verb patterns effectively and systematically was proposed. The effect of the teaching strategy was investigated. The subjects of the experimental group who learned English verb patterns intentionally through the teaching strategy proposed by this study significantly improved themselves in the ability to use them receptively and productively. This result shows that the teaching strategy including improvisation, recognition, rehearsal, system building, exploration and consolidation is helpful to improving communicative competence.

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Improving Abstractive Summarization by Training Masked Out-of-Vocabulary Words

  • Lee, Tae-Seok;Lee, Hyun-Young;Kang, Seung-Shik
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.344-358
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    • 2022
  • Text summarization is the task of producing a shorter version of a long document while accurately preserving the main contents of the original text. Abstractive summarization generates novel words and phrases using a language generation method through text transformation and prior-embedded word information. However, newly coined words or out-of-vocabulary words decrease the performance of automatic summarization because they are not pre-trained in the machine learning process. In this study, we demonstrated an improvement in summarization quality through the contextualized embedding of BERT with out-of-vocabulary masking. In addition, explicitly providing precise pointing and an optional copy instruction along with BERT embedding, we achieved an increased accuracy than the baseline model. The recall-based word-generation metric ROUGE-1 score was 55.11 and the word-order-based ROUGE-L score was 39.65.

A Study on the Adoption of Characteristics of Educational Game for Edutainment Contents Development - through a Case Study of English Vocabulary Learning Came for Children (에듀테인먼트 컨텐츠 개발을 위한 게임 요인 적용에 관한 연구 - 어린이용 영어 단어 학습 게임 컨텐츠 개발을 중심으로)

  • 박수정;김현정
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.271-280
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    • 2003
  • In digital age, multimedia technology has changed the learning method as a learner-directed way. CD-rom and internet that are major two multimedia learning way, has aimed at edutainment which combine education and entertainment. However, existing educational contents can only induce temporary learning motivation, and are in short of entertaining factors enough to induce continuous and ingenuous learning motivation. Therefore, in order to be used by users efficiently, educational software have to adapt characteristics of educational game more actively. In this paper, adoption method of characteristics of educational game in learning contents is sought and the specific example of adoption is demonstrated by a case study of developing vocabulary learning educational game.

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A Study of Smart Convergence Design of English Vocabulary Learning Contents Applying the Periodic Repetitive Method (주기적 반복법을 적용한 영단어 학습콘텐츠 스마트 융합 설계 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Sang
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.133-140
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    • 2016
  • This paper suggests designing how to acquire English vocabularies on the smart devices based on the research that a ground-breaking English Vocabulary Learning Contents needs developing. The method makes it possible to develop the contents which helps the learners to master English vocabularies effectively on the smart phone. The core idea of this paper is as in the following: 1) English learners learn 30 vocabularies for three minutes 10 times (one is for a new learning and the other nine ones are for reviews about the first learning) a day. 2) Considering Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve, the reflection study proposes to provide the learners with three times' reviews: one day, 10days, and 30days later from which they learn the first 30 vocabularies. This contents is mainly made up of 5 developing sections (1)to generate App ID, (2)to access App, (3)to set up Alarm, (4)to process Word learning, and (5)to monitor the result of learning. This proposed idea is optimized to enhance the memory by Ebbinghaus Periodic Repetitive Method, which makes the learners satisfied with their English vocabulary learning.

Analysis technique to support personalized English education based on contents (맞춤형 영어 교육을 지원하기 위한 콘텐츠 기반 분석 기법)

  • Jung, Woosung;Lee, Eunjoo
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.55-65
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    • 2022
  • As Internet and mobile technology is developing, the educational environment is changing from the traditional passive way into an active one driven by learners. It is important to construct the proper learner's profile for personalized education where learners are able to study according to their learning levels. The existing studies on ICT-based personalized education have mostly focused on vocabulary and learning contents. In this paper, learning profile is constructed with not only vocabulary but grammar to define a learner's learning status in more detailed way. A proficiency metric is defined which shows how a learner is accustomed to the learning contents. The simulational results present the suggested approach is effective to the evaluation essay data with each learner's proficiency that is determined after pre-learning process. Additionally, the proposed analysis technique enables to provide statistics or graphs of the learner's status and necessary data for the learner's learning contents.

Effects of Pair Types on English Vocabulary Acquisition (짝 구성 유형이 영어어휘습득에 미치는 효과)

  • Jang, Yong-Seon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.332-344
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    • 2016
  • This study aimed at investigating the effects of grouping participants in pairs according to their relative vocabulary proficiency on the incidental improvement of vocabulary knowledge. Forty six university students were divided into three groups (high-high(n=14), high-low(n=18), or low-low(n=14)) and took part in the study. They performed three vocabulary activities in pairs as extra-class works. Data were collected from one receptive vocabulary knowledge test scores before treatment and two posttest scores after treatment. The results showed that, unlike former study results, HL dyads acquired more vocabulary receptively and productively than HH or LL dyads did, which demonstrated that collaborative pair activity was conducive to the growth of vocabulary knowledge. Furthermore, not only higher proficiency participants in HL pairs made greater vocabulary gains than participants in HH pairs did but also lower proficiency participants gained more vocabulary than participants in LL pairs did. Based on these results, we discussed pedagogical implications.

Reliability measure improvement of Phoneme character extract In Out-of-Vocabulary Rejection Algorithm (미등록어 거절 알고리즘에서 음소 특성 추출의 신뢰도 측정 개선)

  • Oh, Sang-Yeob
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.219-224
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    • 2012
  • In the communication mobile terminal, Vocabulary recognition system has low recognition rates, because this problems are due to phoneme feature extract from inaccurate vocabulary. Therefore they are not recognize the phoneme and similar phoneme misunderstanding error. To solve this problem, this paper propose the system model, which based on the two step process. First, input phoneme is represent by number which measure the distance of phonemes through phoneme likelihood process. next step is recognize the result through the reliability measure. By this process, we minimize the phoneme misunderstanding error caused by inaccurate vocabulary and perform error correction rate for error provrd vocabulary using phoneme likelihood and reliability. System performance comparison as a result of recognition improve represent 2.7% by method using error pattern learning and semantic pattern.

Vocabulary in Korean-Speaking Toddlers : A Preliminary Analysis of Word Class, Composition, Gender, and Individual Variation (걸음마기 한국아동의 어휘발달 : 단어유목, 어휘구성, 성 차 및 개인차에 관한 기초분석)

  • Bornstein, Marc H.;Park, Sung-Yun;Cote, Linda R.
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.19-39
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    • 2004
  • Mothers of 58 20-month-olds in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, completed vocabulary checklists for their children. When vocabulary level was taken into account, children's vocabularies contained relatively greater proportions of nouns than other word classes, and more verbs than adjectives or closed-class words. Correlations among word classes showed that each word class was consistently positively correlated with every other class. Girls' vocabularies showed evidence of being larger than boys. Large individual differences in the sizes of children's vocabularies were found. Factors that influence vocabulary size and can account for gender and individual differences are discussed. Noun prevalence in the vocabularies of children learning to speak Korean, and the merits of several theories that may account for this word-class prevalence pattern, are evaluated.

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A Study Regarding Education Method on Idiomatic Expressions Appearing in the Korean Drama for Learners of Korean Language (한국어 학습자를 위한 드라마 <도깨비> 속 관용표현 교육 방안 연구)

  • Song, Dae-Heon
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.181-191
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest a direction for efficient teaching and learning idiomatic expressions in Korean to improve the vocabulary of Korean language learners. In order to make learning more interesting and enhance learning effectiveness for Korean language learners, the drama, , which was popular in Korea, was used as educational material. Since idomatic language is formed and used based on Korean history, culture, and social background, dramas containing Korean culture and sentiments can be said to be suitable materials for the teaching and learning of Korean idiomatic expressions. By analyzing the drama , 277 significant vocabularies were extracted from the drama based on vocabulary actually used. Among these, 124 idiomatic expressions were extracted after excluding overlapping expressions. Idiomatic expressions extracted in this way were classified based on vocabulary used more than 2 times. In addition, in order to select idiomatic expressions suitable for the level of the learners, 46 final expressions for Korean language education were selected considering the difficulty of vocabulary. Lastly, when the materials selected in the drama were used for education, the precautions for teaching and learning, and the direction of education on idiomatic language were classified into elementary, intermediate, and advanced grades and presented.

Vocabulary Generation Method by Optical Character Recognition (광학 문자 인식을 통한 단어 정리 방법)

  • Kim, Nam-Gyu;Kim, Dong-Eon;Kim, Seong-Woo;Kwon, Soon-Kak
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.943-949
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    • 2015
  • A reader usually spends a lot of time browsing and searching word meaning in a dictionary, internet or smart applications in order to find the unknown words. In this paper, we propose a method to compensate this drawback. The proposed method introduces a vocabulary upon recognizing a word or group of words that was captured by a smart phone camera. Through this proposed method, organizing and editing words that were captured by smart phone, searching the dictionary data using bisection method, listening pronunciation with the use of speech synthesizer, building and editing of vocabulary stored in database are given as the features. A smart phone application for organizing English words was established. The proposed method significantly reduces the organizing time for unknown English words and increases the English learning efficiency.