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Translation and Interpretation in Korean English Poetry Reading Classes (영시 수업에서의 해석과 번역의 문제)

  • Lee, Sam-Chool
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.45
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    • pp.55-83
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    • 2016
  • To provide a set of data with which instructors may boost the sagging demand for Anglo-American poetry classes, this thesis classifies the kinds of difficulties the students face in reading English poems. Asses to the classification is an analysis on the causes of the difficulties at different levels of the reading process, from the linguistic to the cultural. Arnoldian insight argues that poetry is the best of all forms of writing. Without an ample exposure to poetry, average English majors would barely sharpen the skills that they use to deal with other kinds of writing. To help ease the continuing need for a workable teaching model in English poetry reading classes, this thesis suggests focusing on the kinds of wrong translations produced by the students. According to the theory of cultural translation, any translation, even the wrong kind, is already a product of a very complicated process of interpretation that involves many cultural factors. With the analysis of these factors discovered in Korean college English reading classes, this thesis tries to explain the mechanisms through which wrong translations are produced, since these inevitably lead to wrong interpretations of given poetic texts.

Study on Ability to Communicate with the Smart-based Cooperative Learning (스마트 기반 협동학습을 통한 의사소통능력 신장에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jeongrang;Noh, Jaechoon
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.625-632
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    • 2014
  • Due to the development of information and communication technology smart devices and apps, SNS, mirroring communication is made with such a smart and education to reflect the change of emphasis on the recent variety of collaborative social interaction are emerging. In this study, smart training and LT cooperative learning model developed in conjunction with the 'Smart-based cooperative learning 'model applied in the third grade social studies class and Smart-based cooperative learning and cooperative learning common to kidney doctor communication skills of elementary school students the impact on the communication capacity compared respectively, were analyzed. As a result, the expression of the elementary school, listening and understanding, all the sub-areas of interaction, such as communication skills in social studies class kidneys were applied to Smart-based cooperative learning in elementary school than applying the general cooperative learning model. This is not said to improve the ability to interact with the Smart-based cooperative learning in speech and in writing and clearly express the thoughts and opinions of students and separates help you understand the meaning of the words and writings of other students for the purpose in social situations can.

A Survey of Student Satisfaction with a Portfolio Process and Assessment (포트폴리오 과정 및 평가에 대한 학생의 만족도조사)

  • Yoo, Dong-Mi;Han, Jae-Jin;Eo, Eun-Kyung
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.42-49
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    • 2014
  • The purposes of this study were to identify and analyze students' attitudes and satisfaction to the portfolio process and assessment for the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course at Ewha Womans University School of Medicine in Seoul, Korea. The subjects consisted of 64 medical school students. Questionnaires consisting of 20 5-point Likert-type items were developed, including three question domains: 1) orientation, 2) portfolios in general, 3) individualized feedback. The mean and median were found and frequency analysis was performed to identify the common characteristics of the participants. A major finding was that 54.7% of the respondents felt that the self-reflection involved in building the portfolio was a valuable learning experience. Plus, the majority of respondents perceived that the individualized feedback had a positive tone and its contents were specific, practical, and constructive. The students perceived that building and writing portfolios heightened their understanding of exit learning outcomes and enhanced their reflective thinking and self-directed learning skills. Meanwhile, some students perceived that there was too much paperwork in the portfolio process and that the process was time consuming. Furthermore, 32.8% of the respondents said that they had difficulty establishing their learning strategies by themselves and self-directing their learning during the portfolio process. In conclusion, it is expected that building a portfolio can help students not only to enhance their ability to accumulate and use their personal learning resources but also to develop the professional qualities required by doctors, such as self-directed learning, self-reflection, lifelong learning, team work, organizational skills, time management and prioritization, and professional thinking and behavior.

A Critical Evaluation of the Concept and Writing of Learning Outcomes (학습성과의 개념과 작성에 대한 탐구)

  • Lee, Dong Yub;Yang, Eunbae B.
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2016
  • Recent changes in educational paradigms that emphasize the performance or outcomes of education are redefining how learning objectives are being described as 'learning outcomes' in various academic disciplines. Medical education is not an exception to this trend. However, it has come to our attention that the key concepts and appropriate descriptions of learning outcomes have not been well understood among educators and that this lack of understanding has hindered our efforts to implement the practice in the field. This study aims to provide a direction to establish and describe learning outcomes by examining previous studies that have focused on setting learning objectives as well as learning outcomes. Setting and describing learning outcomes starts from reflection on the approach of behavioral learning objectives, which overemphasizes learner's acquired knowledge, skills, and attitude in each classroom rather than actual performance. On the other hand, the learning outcome approach focuses on what the learner is able to do as a result of a learning experience. This approach is more learner-friendly and encourages students to lead and be responsible for their learning process. Learning outcomes can best be described when the relevance of actual contexts and the hierarchy of learning objectives are considered. In addition, they should be in the form of context, task, performance, and level, as well as be planned with proper assessment and feedback procedures. When these conditions are met, the learning outcome approach is beneficial to students as it presents a curriculum that is more open to learners. Despite these advantages of the learning outcome approach, there is a possible concern that setting the learning outcomes and describing them can restrict evaluation to lower cognitive skills if the concept of learning outcome is narrowly interpreted or is set too low. To avoid such narrow applications, it is important for educators to understand the comprehensiveness of the learning outcome setting and to consider long-term outcomes embedded in an organizational vision rather than only short-term behavioral outcomes.

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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A Comparative Study of Graduate Level Archival Curriculum in Korea and the United States of America (한국과 미국의 대학원 기록관리학 교과과정에 관한 비교 연구)

  • Chung, Yeon-Kyoung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.5-25
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    • 2005
  • The purposes of this study are to compare and analyze archival curriculums in Korea and the United States in aspects of specializations, changes, relationships between archival science and library and information science, numbers of the courses and their proportions, and to suggest a future direction of the revised archival curriculum. Archival Science in Korea needs to prepare a more systematic and firm foundation by opening commonly required or prerequisite courses according to each component of the archival body of knowledge. Based upon the reinforcement of the methods of using information technology in integrated environment and development of critical thinking skills, the effectiveness of archival management should be approached in curriculum. And strengthening of research skill through providing of systematic practicum and internship, seminar, workshops and writing thesis will prepare problem solving skills in complicated archival work.

A Comparative Study on the Information Literacy Programs (정보이용능력 교육 프로그램의 비교 연구)

  • Kang, Hye-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.297-320
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to identify theoretical basis of information literacy program in the Korea. Nine Information Literacy Program were compared with ACRL Information Standards. The result of this study is as follows: (1) The identification of information needed was included in the programs that emphasized a thesis or topic statement and formulated question, critical thinking, information technology. (2) Most programs contained mainly potential sources for information. (3) Each programs had element of Information access strategy and skills that explained to OPAC, Indexes and Abstracts, On-line retrievals. (4) Implements the search strategy using various formats was essential elements in the programs. (5) Evaluation and synthesis was included in the programs, partially evaluation for information process and satisfaction was included. (6) The writing skills for termpaper. quotations and oral presentations are important elements of information use in the programs, however. those programs didn't contain enough the ethical and legal uses of information with respect to the standard.

An Analysis of Elements of the Information Literacy Process within Common Inquiry Tasks of Textbooks in Korean Middle Schools Social Studies (중학교 「사회」 교과서의 공통 탐구 과제에 포함된 정보활용과정 요소 분석)

  • Song, Gi-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.233-252
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze inquiry tasks of textbooks in middle schools social studies under the information literacy process and find out teacher librarians' educational information service on the side of information literacy education. Results of the analysis show that middle school students who carry out the inquiry tasks of social studies should select sources, seek its' related information and create their products through writing reports or presentation. Compared with information literacy process of the "Library and Information Skills", 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 social studies teachers' burden of class and promote students' inquiry activities by teaching skills of suitable materials seeking strategies for solving their task, understanding and synthesizing the information and evaluating their process and result. Therefore, it is necessary to activate collaborative teaching between the teacher librarian and the social studies teacher based on the information literacy.

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.