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영어교육에서 중간언어의 중요성 (The importance of interlanguage in teaching English as a foreign language)

  • 박경자
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제6호
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    • pp.113-142
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    • 2000
  • In order to obtain a better understanding of L2 learners, transitional knowledges, it is very important and necessary to have a better knowledge of interlanguage. According to Corder, the role of interlanguage in English education holds significance to (1) for language teachers, (2) for language learners themselves, and (3) for language textbook compilers. To me the significance of interlanguage in English education can be described in terms of not only language teachers, learners themselves, textbook writers and compilers but pure linguists, applied linguists, school authorities as well as parents. For language learners themselves a clear understanding of interlanguage results in students being receptive to language input, and the avoidance of mental block, and low levels of foreign language anxiety. Native speakers of English (NSE) reflect not only linguistic features but also psychological, socio-linguistic, and discourse features when engaged in communication activities. This means that L2 learners are introduced to these different features, especially pragmatic features which are different from their mother tongue or L1 when engaged in communication with NSE. Hence the importance of interlanguage pragmatics should be recognized. It is very important that teachers of English should have a better understanding of interlanguage and present L2 learners with their interlanguage features so they can avoid any misunderstandings such features may cause when conversing with NSS. It should also be noted that interlanguage can form the foundation of language acquisition theory and linguistic analysis.

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Language- Independent Sentence Boundary Detection with Automatic Feature Selection

  • Lee, Do-Gil
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • 제19권4호
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    • pp.1297-1304
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    • 2008
  • This paper proposes a machine learning approach for language-independent sentence boundary detection. The proposed method requires no heuristic rules and language-specific features, such as part-of-speech information, a list of abbreviations or proper names. With only the language-independent features, we perform experiments on not only an inflectional language but also an agglutinative language, having fairly different characteristics (in this paper, English and Korean, respectively). In addition, we obtain good performances in both languages. We have also experimented with the methods under a wide range of experimental conditions, especially for the selection of useful features.

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언어와 민요의 운율 자질에 관한 음향음성학적 연구 (An Acoustic Study of Prosodic Features of Korean Spoken Language and Korean Folk Song (Minyo))

  • 구희산
    • 음성과학
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.133-144
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this acoustic experimental study was to investigate interrelation between prosodic features of Korean spoken language and those of Korean folk songs. The words of Changbutaryoung were spoken for analysis of spoken language by three female graduate students and the song was sung for musical features by three Kyunggi Minyo singers. Pitch contours were analyzed from sound spectrogram made by Pitch Works. Results showed that special musical voices (breaking, tinkling, vibrating, etc.) and tunes (rising, falling, level, etc) of folk song were discovered at the same place where accents of spoken language came. It appeared that, even though the patterns of pitch contour were different from each other, there was positive interrelation between prosodic features of Korean spoken language and those of Korean folk songs.

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한국 무속어의 주술적 특성과 그 해석 (ON THE INCANTATORY FEATURES OF KOREAN SHAMANIC LANGUAGE)

  • Choong-yon Park
    • 인문언어
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    • 제1권1호
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    • pp.295-321
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    • 2001
  • This paper attempts to demonstrate how the linguistic and mythological features of the shamanic language make it incantatory, or ′enchanting′. Passages used in shamanic rites manifest linguistic characteristics that point to their own norms and conventions, as well as some mythological features that contribute to the undecipherablity of the shamanic language. Focusing on the estranged linguistic and mythological features, I propose that shamanic languages can be best interpreted in terms of the linguistic hierarchization, a notion that has been developed since Roman Jakobson′s poetics. The present study adopts Eisele′s framework that reinterprets Jakobsonian hierarchization into a slightly revised notion on the basis of the "degree of combinatorial freedom" and the "degree of semantic immediacy", looking into a set of paradigm examples in search of some parallel structures characterizing the shamanic language. The enchanting effect of this peculiar form of language, it is argued, is due mostly to the frequent use of lexical parallelism, which works in the reverse direction of the normal process of interpretation.

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Annotation of a Non-native English Speech Database by Korean Speakers

  • Kim, Jong-Mi
    • 음성과학
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.111-135
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    • 2002
  • An annotation model of a non-native speech database has been devised, wherein English is the target language and Korean is the native language. The proposed annotation model features overt transcription of predictable linguistic information in native speech by the dictionary entry and several predefined types of error specification found in native language transfer. The proposed model is, in that sense, different from other previously explored annotation models in the literature, most of which are based on native speech. The validity of the newly proposed model is revealed in its consistent annotation of 1) salient linguistic features of English, 2) contrastive linguistic features of English and Korean, 3) actual errors reported in the literature, and 4) the newly collected data in this study. The annotation method in this model adopts the widely accepted conventions, Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) and the TOnes and Break Indices (ToBI). In the proposed annotation model, SAMPA is exclusively employed for segmental transcription and ToBI for prosodic transcription. The annotation of non-native speech is used to assess speaking ability for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners.

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An Application of Announcing techniques to the teaching of speech for non-native speakers of Japanese

  • Tomoko Shimoda
    • 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한음성학회 1996년도 10월 학술대회지
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    • pp.168-168
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    • 1996
  • In this paper I will examine some concrete examples of the obstacles faced by non-native speakers of Japanese when learning the language. I will go on to suggest ways in which these obstacles may be overcome. Nowadays there are numerous Japanese language books available for non-native speakers. However, most of these introductory Japanese language books focus on topics such as pronunciation, accent and intonation. Notable, these introductory textbooks provide insufficient emphasis on prosodic features of the Japanese language. The Japanese language has been considered by many teachers as relatively easy compared to other languages, due to its simple phonetic structure. This may be a partial explanation of the reason why the teaching of prosodic features has generally been given insufficient emphasis. To teach Japanese efficiently at a university level I have combined an emphasis on the teaching of prosodic features together with my experience of television announcing. This has entailed using television news programmes and contemporary reading materials in my class. Using taped material I intend to describe a case-study of teaching of Japanese articulation.

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열과 온도 수업에서 나타난 초등학생들의 중간 언어 분석 (Analysis of Elementary Students' Interlanguage in Science Class about Heat and Temperature)

  • 이일연;장신호
    • 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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    • 제34권1호
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2015
  • For effective science learning, teachers need to rearrange scientific language so that students can understand the contents with their incomplete language resources. Interlanguage is the interplay between everyday language and scientific language. The purpose of the study was to analyze the patterns of interlanguage during 4th grade science class to learn "Heat and Temperature" and to find the features of meaning sharing inside classroom in which a teacher and students participated. The data analysis shows that elementary students' interlanguage has different features compared to scientific language that involves passive voice and content-specialized nouns. Students' interlanguage implied the quality of class community's knowledge-sharing, according to the degree of how students can connect scientific language and everyday language in more effective ways. The implication to elementary science education was discussed.

Mathematics and Language

  • Adanur, Yunus;Yagiz, Oktay;Isik, Ahmet
    • 한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2004
  • This study explores the relations between mathematics and the natural human language. At the very outset, a general definition of language was, given while it was attempted to make some comparisons between the words of natural language and mathematical symbols at that. Besides, the occupation of natural language functions within mathematics was handled. Consequently, it was tried to manifest that the language of mathematics enjoys the features of natural language as well. Mathematics makes use of many functional and structural features. The fact that fundamental ingredient of mathematics is symbols does not change this reality.

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유아의 인종적 신체 특징 인식, 외모와 언어 단서에 따른 내집단 범주화 및 선호도 (Children's Awareness of Racial Features, Racial In-Group Classification and Racial Preference According to Visual and Language Features)

  • 이정민;이강이
    • 아동학회지
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.85-102
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of racial features, racial in-group classification and preference by Korean children. The study participants comprised 89 children aged 3-5 years. The children performed photograph description and choice tasks. The major findings were as follows: First, older children were significantly more likely than younger children to use racial feature and less likely to use general physical feature to describe the stimuli. Second, children tended to select the South-Asian person speaking in Korean language as a Korean, rather than the Korean person speaking in English. Third, children tended to select the person of Korean appearance speaking in English as a playmate. The result revealed the developmental features of racial awareness. Furthermore the correspondence of language plays an important role on the children's in-group classification whereas the correspondence of appearance plays an important role on the children's preference.

플러그인 언어로 확장 가능한 프로그래밍 언어 (An Extensible Programming Language for Plugin Features)

  • 최종명;유재우
    • 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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    • 제31권5호
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    • pp.632-642
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    • 2004
  • 현대적인 소프트웨어들은 모듈성과 확장성을 강조하고 있으며, 프로그래밍 언어와 컴파일러에서도 확장성에 관한 연구들이 수행되고 있다. 본 논문에서 소개하는 Argos 언어는 플러그인 언어라는 개념을 이용해서 언어와 컴파일러를 확장할 수 있는 방법을 제공한다. Argos에서 플러그인 언어는 클래스의 메소드를 정의하기 위해서 사용되며, 플러그인 언어 처리기는 동적으로 추가 및 교체될 수 있는 특징을 가지고 있다. Argos에서 플러그인 언어는 멀티패러다임 프로그래밍과 도메인 특정 언어를 지원하기 위해서 사용될 수 있다.