• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.245-259
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to investigate English teachers' perceptions about doing their own action research to find out the benefits of involvement in action research. I believe that teachers should engage in curriculum research and development because it relates to their own classrooms and because a primary aim for teacher education program is to give teachers ways of exploring their own classrooms. I focused on 17 graduate students who had undertaken action research during the fall semester of 2007 and administered a questionnaire about their perceptions of doing action research. The results revealed that their perceptions of doing action research fell into the following two categories, positive and negative aspects. For positive aspects, they experienced a sense of personal and professional growth and they underwent identity transformation from passive, etic-oriented, and uncritical to active, emic-oriented, and critical teachers. However, many of them expressed that major obstacles to doing action research were time constraints and lack of skills or training in conducting action research. Thus, it is suggested that both pre- and in-service teachers should consider conducting a language teaching diary study, doing collaborative action research, and acquiring all the necessary skills for conducting action research.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.321-346
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• 2010

This study was performed to develop a task-based English lesson plan. The study reviewed the background theories needed to accomplish the study purpose; types of learning, current trends in English teaching, and the task-based teaching. A frame for the task-based English lesson was developed as the result of this study. An actual task-based lesson plan was made after the frame for the task-based English lesson. The author presented task-based English lesson plans at English education conferences, and applied them to pre-teacher training and in-service trainings for English teachers. It is concluded that the task-based English lesson plan was very effective in enhancing English communicative competence and that the pre-teachers and teachers were satisfied with the lesson plans. It is hoped that more teaching material will be developed based on this task-based English lesson plan.

• 아동학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.223-235
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• 2009

Elementary education in Korea has variously changed and developed during the last thirty years. Among all the progressive changes, the improvement of teaching conditions is considered to be the most fundamental one. The number of students assigned to a class or a teacher has decreased to a considerable extent. Cyber teaching-learning has been peformed at school and home, and English education has been emerged as a significant part of the Korean public education. The research issues constantly considered essential over the past three decades starting in the 1980's are those related to curricula, teaching-learning methods, training of teachers in-service, and education for upright characters. The practical and political issues should be dealt with to revise the three integrated subjects and text books into a sole integrated subject and text book, to double the credential of teachers in terms of professionalism and to decrease the number of students per teacher in Korea to the OECD level.

• 한국교육학연구
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.57-81
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• 2017

본 연구는 관제기 관립 외국어학교의 교육사적 의미를 정리하기 위한 것으로, 이 시기 설립 운영된 6개 관립 외국어학교의 교사진 특성과 학생수 변화를 통해 당시 외국어교육 정책과 외국어학교간 비교우위를 살펴보고자 한다. 1894년 갑오개혁을 통해 과거제와 신분제를 폐지한 조선에서 외국어 교육은 근대적 문물 습득과 사회적 지위 상승을 위한 문화자본이었다. 본 연구를 통해 얻어진 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 관제기의 외국어학교는 당대 최고 수준의 교육기관이었다. 입학연령은 15세 이상 23세 이하였지만 실제 입학생들 대부분은 20세 이상이었다. 둘째, 관제기 외국어학교의 몇몇 교사 중에는 군사와 외교, 기술 분야 전문가도 있었다. 특히 법어학교 교사 마르텔은 대한제국 시기 중립외교 정책을 전개하는 데에 중요한 역할을 하였다. 셋째, 외국어학교의 학생 모집은 당시의 정치적 사회적 분위기에 많은 영향을 받았다. 넷째, 관제기 관립 외국어학교의 입학생 통계를 보면 한어학교, 법어학교, 영어학교의 순으로 비중이 높으며, 이는 당시 재학생 통계상 영어학교와 일어학교에 학생들이 집중된다는 일반적인 주장과는 다른 결과이다. 다섯째, 관제기 관립 외국어학교는 역관통사를 양성할 뿐만 아니라 경세가가 될 수 있는 문무 관료를 양성하였다.