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Thematic Analysis of the Therapeutic Song Writing Experience of Music Therapy Interns: A Focus Group (음악치료 인턴들의 치료적 노래만들기 경험에 대한 주제분석: 포커스 그룹을 중심으로)

  • Park, Chanyang;Kim, Jinah
    • Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2020
  • The internship is essential for the music therapy curriculum and affords interns the opportunity to apply their classroom-based knowledge and skills to real-world clinical settings. However, challenges associated with the internship can result in interns undergoing trial-and-error learning, interpersonal conflicts, and intrapersonal difficulties. An experiential music therapy group may be useful in helping interns process these incidents and develop their personal and professional skills. We explored the experiences of music therapy interns participating in therapeutic song writing. In this study, five music interns completed two 4-hour sessions of therapeutic song writing. Following the second session, a group interview was conducted with participants to gather data on their experiences. The interview was recorded, transcribed, and analyzed. Six themes and 18 sub-themes were derived from the data. The six themes were preconceptions of therapeutic song writing, meaningful lyric creation, challenges in song composition, structured experiences during song writing process, development of self-awareness through music, and relational experiences resulting from the group process. Participants were able to incorporate their individual internship experiences into a single song by communicating with group members during the step-by-step process. Participation in therapeutic song writing was found to help music therapy interns identify and process challenges encountered during their internship and further their personal and professional development.

대학생들의 3D 가상현실을 이용한 채팅의 영어학습 효과

  • Lee, Seon-Hye;Jeong, Dong-Bin
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.233-257
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of 3D avatar-based Virtual Reality chatting on college students' English learning achievement. Forty college sophomore students participated at this study and the research lesson continued for 8 weeks. They were administered to take a pretest to evaluate their vocabulary knowledge and writing skills. Their progress was assessed on the basis of midterm. Finally, a post-questionnaire was administered to measure their interest and understanding toward their learning experience in 3D avatar-based Virtual chatting. The results of this study indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between the control group and experimental group with respect to their midterm scores and writing. The result of the post-survey indicated the interest of English was statistically higher than the understanding of English.

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High School Students in Natural Science Track and Engineering Major University Students'Perceptions on Writing and Composition Education (자연계 고등학생과 공학 전공 대학생의 글쓰기 교육에 대한 인식)

  • Lee, Hyonyong;Im, Young-Goo
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.405-415
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate high school students in natural science track and engineering major university students' perceptions about the writing and composition education. A total of 318 high school students in natural science track from two high schools in a metropolitan area and 447 university students majoring in engineering from three universities participated in the survey and asked to response their perceived status and needs of writing education for science-engineering track. The survey instrument, developed by Lee et al.(2009), was used for this study. The data was analyzed through the SPSS 18.0 program for Windows for Multiple Response Frequency Analysis, Descriptive Statistics, Independent Samples t-test, and One-way Analysis of Variance. The results indicated that high school students relatively perceived that writing education was less necessary compared to university students. In addition, high school students found writing less difficult than university students do. In related to studying their experience with writing and composition education, almost no high school students have taken writing classes and university students have taken an average of one class. Most university students who took writing classes took basic writing classes that were not programmed for students in Science and Engineering. In the basic survey to revitalize writing and composition education for Science and Engineering students in different majors, the level of writing and composition education required by students in each major was different. Writing was considered most necessary for students majoring in Chemical Engineering, followed by students majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Electronic Engineering. The study of writing and composition education for high school and college should extend to studies on teachers or professors who teach writing, studies on contents and methods of writing education, and studies on the development of writing programs for different majors in university.

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Problem Development for PBL-based English Science Classes in Elementary Schools (초등학교에서 PBL 기반 영어과학수업을 위한 문제 개발 연구)

  • Park, In-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.33-38
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    • 2020
  • Problem development is important to Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and is key to the creativity and problem-solving skills of successful learners. The purpose of this study is to have PBL classes that effectively materialize problem development stages, and to develop learning using problems suitable for elementary school English Science classes. In this study, the steps for developing the problems are identifying educational content, identifying learners' characteristics, discovering problems, setting up roles and situations, and writing problems. Based on these steps, five PBL problems were developed by selecting a subject suitable for the PBL method of an English Science class, which is one of the English curriculums in elementary schools. Creative thinking, problem-solving skills, presentation skills, confidence, self-directed learning, cooperation, and communication skills are required in the rapidly changing society of the 21st century, rather than teacher-centered instruction, acquiring knowledge for correct answers only, and uniform assessments, which still take place in many English education settings. Therefore, developing problems suitable for PBL learning should be continuously studied.

Educational Drama Skills to Improve the Expressive Ability of Korean Language (한국어 표현능력 향상을 위한 교육연극 기법)

  • Park, Hee-Jeong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.672-679
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    • 2015
  • The early stage of Korean language education was to understand grammar. However, recent Korean language education aims to improve expressive ability for smooth communication. Hence, educational drama for education has gained attention as one of the effective ways of improving communication skills. Educational drama provides an actual conversational situation in which one can use appropriate words and grammar depending on the situation. Non-verbal expression such as body language and facial expression could be picked up so one also improves one's communicative abilities naturally. This means that educational drama shares Korean language education's goal of improving communicative ability. Moreover, the student becomes the core of the activity and finds solutions through cooperation with others, and this also helps improve social skills and self-esteem. This thesis covers methods of having interviews, re-writing texts to scripts, writing up post-script by imagining the following text, role-playing, and improving expressive ability by debating educational theatrical techniques. To make these activities successful, good quality VOD and learning materials shall be developed and used. Also, efficient training programs shall be created so that teachers make use of what they learn and improve their teaching skills.

Translator-Assisted L2 Writing, Necessary or Not?: Beginner University Learners' Perceptions of Its Validity (대학 L2 글쓰기에서 번역기 사용은 필요한가?: 타당성에 대한 초급반 학습자의 인식)

  • Kim, Kyung-Rahn
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2020
  • This study aimed to investigate beginner-level learners' use of translators in L2 writing, and shed light on its validity in writing performance through their responses on the necessity, reliability and limitation of machine translation. 117 university students from beginner-level L2 writing classes participated in the survey. Additionally, 11 of them were interviewed about their answers. The survey and interview data revealed varying viewpoints such as reliability and effects as well as reasons for choosing translator-assisted writing. The vast majority(76.1%) used web-based machine translators for their writing activities, and employed various strategies to help their insufficient L2 skills and to increase their motivation and confidence. On the other hand, they exhibited its detrimental effects including it could lead to plagiarism, and interfere with the learning process unless they post-edited the given translation. However, translators were viewed as a new, efficient, and valid educational tool for effective and successful L2 writing.

Archives and Writing (기록학과 쓰기)

  • Lee, Youngnam
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.71
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    • pp.169-236
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    • 2022
  • This paper is a study on the relationship of archives and writing. Writing is an big issue these days. Archival studies need to be interested with writings. It's not just about writing skills. Archival studies have to try archiving more good relationships. Symbiotic approach can be worth the efforts. The main focus of this paper is on the writing in archives workshop. Archives workshop is a good place where writing and archiving have a symbiotic relationships. Writing is an archival try to invite the values of 'requests, inquiring after, observes, conversation' to archives. These archival practices can contribute the symbiotic approach to constructed archives.

The Characteristics of Lesson Planning of Pre-service Elementary Teachers to Develop Scientific Communication Skills for Elementary School Students (초등학생의 과학적 의사소통 능력 함양을 위해 예비 초등교사들이 작성한 수업과정안의 특징)

  • Na, Jiyeon;Jang, Byung-Ghi
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.54-65
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of lesson planning of pre-service elementary teachers to develop scientific communication skills for elementary school students. For this purpose, lesson plans and lesson planning journals written by the 53 pre-service teachers were collected and analyzed. The results of the research were as follows. The pre-service elementary teachers used an implicit and contextual approach to develop scientific communication skills. Teaching and learning activities for enhancing scientific communication were mainly conducted in words or in writing. There were many activities expressing elementary school students' thoughts and presenting the results of experiments in the lesson plan. There were many cases in which the pre-service teachers' lesson plans did not include the evaluation of scientific communication skills. In their lesson plans, there are a lot of mutual activities between teachers and students, team and whole students, and inter-students within teams together, and students' individual activities from requests of teachers. We found that the pre-service teachers had various difficulties when they planned the science lesson to develop scientific communication skills. The pre-service teachers were less likely to refer to specialized materials related to science education when planning their classes.

A Strategy using Writing based on STEAM Instruction for Information Gifted Students' Creative Problem-Solving (정보영재의 창의적 문제해결력을 위한 STEAM 기반 쓰기 활용 전략)

  • Jeon, Su-Ryun;Lee, Tae-Wuk
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.181-188
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose an a strategy using writing based on STEAM Instruction for information gifted students' creative problem-solving. It is needed a complex and dynamic interaction of variety elements for creative problem solving. And it should be provided experience encompassing various disciplines thorough convergence education for leading to the these interactions and developing the ability to solve complex problems. Writing has already been verified educational effects in a variety subjects. And writing gives a positive impact on creative problem solving by helping awareness of the problem and encouraging critical thinking. In addition, writing can be used as an effective tool for improving problem solving based on similarities between problem-solving process. Learners will find algorithm thorough the process analyzing and writing experience with high-tech products like vending machines, mobile phones and can learn naturally the principles of various disciplines used in real life. Furthermore, learners will experience interaction, convergence of various thinking and cultivate creative problem- solving skills.

An Investigation of Students' Science Writing Processes Using Think-aloud Method (발성사고법을 이용한 학생들의 과학 글쓰기 과정 탐색)

  • You, Jiyeon;Kang, Sukjin;Kim, Jiyeong;Noh, Taehee
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.881-892
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    • 2013
  • It has been recently emphasized that comprehensive understanding of students' cognitive activities in the process of writing as well as final product is needed in order to develop an effective strategy for science writing. In this study, we investigated the characteristics of writing process in the situation that students wrote a composition in solving the application problem on a science topic. Seven eighth graders selected in the consideration of their science achievement and communication skills were asked to write a composition using think-aloud method. They were also interviewed after their writing work. The analyses of the results indicated that students' writing processes consisted of six distinctive components: generating, organizing, setting, translating, evaluating, and revising. It was also found that the patterns of process components for each student were different in terms of the frequency and the sequence. The patterns of process components were categorized into four types: systematic, tacit planning, trial and error, and random strategies. Educational implications were also discussed.