• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.91-99
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• 1989

This stdudy intended to analysis the achievements of science education in primary, secondary and high school in Korea and Japan based on the IEA(the Internationl Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) data. Advancing in school level. Korean students were inferior to Jatopanese in Science achievements, especially much more in comprehension, application than knowledge aspect. This results were roughhly discussed in relation to the environments of science edecation and the evlation systems.

• Journal of Korean language education
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.31-63
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to compare the aspects of acculturation and the acculturative strategies of Chinese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Japanese international students in Korea and to explore the correlation between acculturative strategies and acculturation as well as between acculturative factors and acculturation. The analysis revealed (i) that all of the international students from four countries adapted well to Korean culture in order of contentment to the collegiate life, personal factors, Korean living culture, social factors, Korean classes. Further, (ii) frequently used acculturative strategies of Chinese, Mongolian students were in the order of separation, marginalization, and assimilation while the most often used acculturative ones of Vietnamese and Japanese students were in the order of marginalization, separation and assimilation. In addition, (ⅲ) the acculturation of international students from four countries showed a significant correlation with personal factors, Korean living culture, contentment to the collegiate life, and (iv) the acculturation of Chinese students showed a positive correlation with separation strategy. In contrast, there was a negative correlation between the marginalization strategy and the acculturation of Mongolian and Japanese students.