• 아동학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.15-28
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• 2009

This study focused on the comprehension of texts written either in Korean script (Hangul) or Chinese script (Hanja). For this purpose, we measured the reading time and the correct response in text comprehension tasks with 104 Korean-Chinese children who were either 10 or 19 years old. There was a main effect of script : The reading time of Hanja texts was shorter than that of Hangul or Hangul Hanja mixed texts. But the older subjects who spent the same reading time in both Hangul and Hanja texts showed the longer reading time in Hangul Hanja mixed texts revealing the interaction between age and script. The correct response rate on the comprehension task was the highest in Hangul text. The results were discussed in relation to the independent dual language processing systems in Korean-Chinese.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.362-371
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate difficulties in using prosodic information to identify the meaning of ambiguous sentences in children with high functioning autism (HFA). Fifteen high functioning autistic children and fifteen children who matched their chronological age (CA) participated in this study. We compared the performance of the two groups by conducting syntactically and affectively ambiguous sentence comprehension (SASC and AASC) tasks. The results of this study show that in both tasks, the difference between the two groups was statistically significant at each condition and the performance of high functioning autistic children was significantly lower. In a correlation analysis of major variables, children who matched CA showed a correlation between prosody-only (PO) and AASC, while children with HFA showed a correlation between PO and MO (morpheme-only). Children with HFA used grammatical morpheme information to understand general sentences. We found that the ability to use prosodic information in children with HFA is significantly lower than that of normally developed children. Considering the relevance of prosody to linguistic, non-linguistic and emotional aspects of communication, improving prosodic perception is thought to be a way to mediate deficits in the comprehension of ambiguous sentences in children with HFA.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to present evidence for a particular processing approach based on the language-specific characteristics of Korean. To compare individuals' sentence-comprehension abilities, this study measured the accuracy and reaction times (RT) of 12 aphasic patients (AP) and 12 normal controls (NC) during a sentence-picture matching task. Four versions of a sentence were constructed with the two types of voice (active/passive) and two types of word order (agent-first/patient-first). To examine the effects of increased processing demand, picture stimuli were manipulated in such a way that they appeared immediately after the sentence was presented. As expected, the AP group showed higher error rates and longer RT for all conditions than the NC group. Furthermore, Korean speakers with aphasia performed above a chance level in sentence comprehension, even with passive sentences. Aphasics understood sentences more quickly and accurately when they were given in the active voice and with agent-first order. The patterns of the NC group were similar. These results confirm that Korean adults with aphasia do not completely lose their knowledge of sentence comprehension. When the processing demand was increased by delaying the picture stimulus onset, the effect of increased processing demands on RT was more pronounced in the AP than in the NC group. These findings fit well with the idea that the computational system for interpreting sentences is intact in aphasics, but its ability is compromised when processing demands increase.

• Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.47-63
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to develop a screening test for children at risk of reading underachievement and to investigate the effectiveness of the early-stage intervention program. In the first part of the study, we recruited 155 elementary first grade students for a screening test. Phonological deletion, digit naming, object naming, and sound-letter correspondence knowledge of a screening test, all assessed at the beginning of the school year, predicted the reading ability at the end of the school year. In the second part of the study, we analyzed the difference in the reading ability between fourteen children who participated in the intervention program and eighteen non-participating children. Reading ability was assessed by evaluating word recognition, oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, and pseudo-word recognition. The reading ability of intervention group improved more compared to control group, and the difference between two groups accentuated over time. However, final analysis conducted in November revealed that two groups did not differ significantly in oral reading fluency. This suggests that, unlike word recognition and comprehension, fluency might not dramatically improve in a short period.

• 아동학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.163-175
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• 2001

This study investigated the effect on children's literacy of teacher-child discussion about the contents of storybooks. The subjects were 10 experimental and 10 control 5-year-old kindergarten children in Cheongju. The experimental design was the Split Plot design. The research instruments used for pre- and post-tests were the Vocabulary Decoding Competence Test(Lee, 1998), Writing Competence Test(Lee & Lee, 1990), Story Comprehension Competence Test(Lee, 1998; Morrow, 1990), and the Emergent Reading Ability Judgements for Favorite Storybooks(Sulzby, 1985). Data were analyzed by ANOVA with repeated measures. Results showed that the teacher-child discussions about the contents of storybooks were effective for improving children's competence in decoding vocabulary, writing, and story comprehension but not for improving emergent reading ability.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2000

그 동안 우리나라의 영어 교육은 듣기와 말하기 같은 실용적 언어 기능보다는 쓰기와 읽기 같은 수동적인 언어기능 위주로 교육이 진행 되어왔다. 이러한 교육 방법은 학생들이 영어 교육을 받은 기간이 비교적 긴 기간에 비추어 볼 때에 상당히 비효율적인 언어구사 능력을 갖추게 하였다. 이 연구의 목적은 영어 듣기 지도에 관한 효율적인 방안을 연구하여 학생들로 하여금 영어를 정확히 들을 수 있는 능력을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 연구하고자 한다.

• 영재교육연구
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.649-667
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• 2015

본 연구의 목적은 중학교 미성취 영재학생의 미성취 문제 해결을 위한 읽기 이해 전략 프로그램을 개발하고 그 효과성을 탐색함으로써, 미성취 문제 해결을 위한 교육 원리와 교육 방안을 제안하려는 것이다. 이를 위하여 본 연구는 읽기 이해 구성주의 모형과 읽기 이해 전략 모형에 따라 미성취 영재학생들을 위한 교육 프로그램을 개발하였다. 연구대상으로는 미성취 영재의 조작적 정의에 근거하여 36명의 미성취 영재학생을 판별하였다. 판별된 학생을 대상으로 개발한 읽기 이해 전략 프로그램을 적용하고, 프로그램 전 후 읽기 이해 능력, 읽기 메타 인지 능력, 학교 성적 등의 변화 추이를 분석하였다. 또한, 읽기 이해 전략을 이외의 다른 미성취 요인들로 인한 미성취 발생 여부를 확인하기 위하여 모든 미성취 영재 학생과 그들의 선생님을 면담하였다. 연구 결과, 읽기 이해 전략 프로그램은 중학교 미성취 영재학생의 읽기 메타인지 능력과 읽기 이해 능력을 신장시켰으며, 그들의 학업 성취를 향상시킬 수 있었다. 특히 미성취 영재로 판별된 36명의 학생들 중 3분의 1에 해당하는 12명이 읽기 이해 전략 프로그램을 통하여 미성취 수준에서 벗어날 수 있었다. 본 연구 결과에 근거할 때, 중학교 미성취 영재학생들에게 읽기이해 전략을 습득하게 함으로써 효과적으로 학습전략을 체득하도록 하는 것은 그들의 미성취 문제를 해결하는데 상당한 도움이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• 재활치료과학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.25-38
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• 2021

목적 : 노화 과정에 따른 속담 이해력을 객관적으로 평가할 수 있는 분석방법을 정립하기 위해 속담 이해력 과제 제작 후 평가척도별 차이를 비교하였다. 연구방법 : 만 65세 이상 정상 노인 70명을 대상으로 설명하기 방식을 통한 속담 이해력 과제를 실시하였다. 3점 및 5점 척도의 점수 산정 방식을 설계하고 두 가지 방법으로 각각 분석하여 비교하였다. 두 척도에 따른 난이도와 변별도를 산출하여 최종 문항과 평가척도를 선정하였고, 이 척도상 수행력과 집행기능 간의 상관성에 대해 알아보았다. 결과 : 첫째, 3점 척도보다 5점 척도에서의 문항변별지수가 상대적으로 높게 산출되었고, 최종 10개 문항이 선정되었다. 둘째, 속담 이해력은 70~84세 집단이 65~69세 집단보다 유의하게 낮은 수행력을 보였고, 교육년수가 10년 이상인 집단이 9년 이하 집단에 비해 유의하게 높은 수행력을 보였다. 셋째, 속담 이해력 과제의 수행력은 집행기능 과제의 반응시간과 부적 상관을 보였다. 결론 : 속담 이해력은 일반적인 뇌기능인 좌반구와 우반구의 반구 특성에만 기인하지 않고 일반 노인내에서도 노화과정에 따른 뇌기능의 저하를 변별적으로 보여줄 수 있는 과제이며, 평가 척도의 점수범위가 높을수록 그 차이를 더 효과적으로 평가할 수 있음을 알 수 있다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.235-252
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• 2000

This study investigated the effects of story making activity with wordless picture books on the language abilities of 5- and 6-year-old children. The 52 subjects attending a kindergarten in Kwangju were randomly assigned to an experimental group or a control group of 26 children each. The experimental group made stories with wordless picture books while the control group listened to stories. Experimental treatments were given twice a week for 6 weeks. Assessment was by The Language Comprehension-Cognition Test(1994), The Picture Vocabulary Test(1995), and The Sentence-Comprehension Test(1996). Qualitative level of the stories was analyzed by Morrow's(1985) revised Instrument Assessing Children Understanding of Stories(Chae, 1996). The vocabulary, language-comprehension, and story-composing ability of children who made stories with wordless picture books were higher than those of children who listened to stories told by teachers.

• 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2001

This study was designed to determine what components of spoken language have been relatively neglected in the teaching of listening comprehension in Korea and to suggest a model of listening process. Two types of tests were undertaken using spoken and written forms of English with secondary school teachers of English and college students. Findings: Hearing power has been generally neglected in the teaching of listening comprehension. Hearing power which can be thought as an active process is defined as an ability to transfer the sequence of discrete phonetic segments without word boundary into the sequence of words in phonemic representations by using both nonlinguistic factors and linguistic factors including perception rules based on phonetics and phonology. Vocabularies, hearing-speaking power, syntactic structures and idiomatic expressions are to be taught for spoken English. A model of listening process was suggested and discussed.