• 영어어문교육
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2005

This paper is a qualitative and quantitative study. The main purpose of the paper is to diagnose what makes English communication difficult at the Korean EFL adult level. In order to obtain data, this study employed interviews and a questionnaire. We identified thirty three factors blocking pathways to oral communication. Qualitative analysis repeatedly revealed patterns such as lack of grammar, lack of vocabulary, lack of background knowledge, and peer pressure, but quantitative analysis yielded somewhat different results: lack of colloquial expressions, lack of vocabulary, lack of various topics, problems in the educational system, difficulty in using existing knowledge, and lack of grammar. Findings which were common to both qualitative and quantitative analyses suggest that lack of linguistic knowledge and lack of background knowledge are major barriers learners encounter in communication. On the basis of the results, suggestions are made for overcoming these barriers.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.328-332
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• 2021

The article considers general tendencies in world and education, and also both principles and methods of forming professional, communicative, intercultural competences and in the process of teaching foreign language for professional purposes in the conditions of engineering, economic and other non-linguistic specialties at technical university. The article views some essential issues of this competence including awareness of pedagogical values, the construction of the pedagogical process, pedagogical communication and behavior; pedagogical technology, its essence, structural components, understanding of innovative components of professional activity, requirements for the design and engineering of pedagogical technologies.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2019

본 연구는 해외인턴쉽의 외국어능력 발전에 미치는 영향을 고찰하기 위해 15주간 해외인턴쉽 프로그램에 참여한 10명의 한국대학생들이 작성한 영작문의 변화를 조사하였다. 자료수집을 위해 참여학생들은 인턴쉽 전후로 영작문 하나씩을 작성하였다. 수집된 자료를 이용해 두 영작문의 구성요소 및 어휘 사용면의 변화들을 분석하였고, 이어 통계분석도 실시하였다. 본 논문의 결과에 의하면, 참가자들이 인턴쉽 이후에 더 많은 수의 문장들을 사용하였고, 문장들이 더 길어졌으며, 아울러 더 복잡한 구조의 문장을 생성한 것을 알 수 있다. 또한 어휘의 유창성과 사용능력이 증가하였고 문장 내에 다음절의 다양한 유형의 단어들이 사용되었다는 것을 알 수 있다. 본 연구는 해외인턴쉽이 외국어능력 향상에 유용하다는 것을 나타낸다. 따라서 글로벌 경쟁력 제고를 꾀하는 중소기업들은 생산성, 품질 등 산업적 능력 제고뿐만 아니라 해외인턴쉽과 같은 훈련프로그램을 통해 인적자원의 글로벌 역량도 강화할 필요가 있겠다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.103-112
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• 2017

Work engagement and job burnout are crucial problems in Korea, particularly in the business environment, and they also indicate people's motivation. Online-based teams in e-business also have these issues. Especially the role of the leader in this new type of teams is more crucial for members' motivation, behavior, and performance. Contingency leadership theories posit that different situations need different traits or behaviors of a leader. For an online-based team, which is internet-based team in e-business, a leader should use specific communication strategies to enhance a team's performance and members' motivation. In an online-based team and an offline-based team, the ways in which leaders motivate members will be different. This paper suggests particular communicative strategies for leaders of online situations. Online-based team members communicate using mobile phones or IT tools, and leaders mayinfluences members in virtual meetings. Moreover, online-based leadership needs to be more entrepreneurial and risk encouraging, and less conservative than offline-based leadership. In addition, online-based leadership should be energetic, decisive, adaptable, and inspiring, and furtherutilize communication tools such as being more gregarious/talkative, assertiveness, linguistic diversity and affect. This paper explains the roles of communicative elements such as coordination, expression, direction-giving/uncertainty reduction, empathy, meaning-making, satisfaction, and competence to decrease job burnout and to increase work engagement. The purpose of this study is to suggest communication strategies' differentiated influences on work engagement and job burnout in an online-based team.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.595-612
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• 2011

Most organizations use performance appraisal system to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of their employees. In evaluating staff performance, performance appraisal usually involves awarding numerical values or linguistic labels to employees performance. These values and labels are used to represent each staff achievement by reasoning incorporated in the arithmetical or statistical methods. However, the staff performance appraisal may involve judgments which are based on imprecise data especially when a person (the superior) tries to interpret another person's (his/her subordinate) performance. Thus, the scores awarded by the appraiser are only approximations. From fuzzy logic perspective, the performance of the appraisee involves the measurement of his/her ability, competence and skills, which are actually fuzzy concepts that can be captured in fuzzy terms. Accordingly, fuzzy approach can be used to handle these imprecision and uncertainty information. Therefore, the performance appraisal system can be examined using Fuzzy Logic Approach, which is carried out in the study. The study utilized a Cascaded fuzzy inference system to generate the performance qualities of some University non-teaching staff that are based on specific performance appraisal criteria.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제20권
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• pp.295-321
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• 2010

The trend of globalization has sharpened the debate on interculturality, which scholars examine from different and often conflicting points of view ('content' vs. 'practice', 'culture-specific' vs. 'universal', 'communication (meta)theory' vs. 'communication practice', 'individual' vs. 'collective', etc.). Whereas all these approaches are necessary to describe the multiple dimensions of interculturality, their dichotomous nature does not help to account for its internal complexity, which cannot be dissociated from the connections that exist among all these dimensions. The difficulty posed by the essentialist interpretations that tend to result from these dichotomies is compounded by the fact that in postmodern debates priority has been given to approaches that emphasize individual or collective agency over structural constraints which have to do with political economy or with cultural and linguistic codes and traditions. This paper aims mainly at suggesting that the dissolution of the boundaries that exist between these approaches should be pursued in order to get a fuller and richer approach to their common object of study. After discussing, by way of illustration, content-based and practice-based perspectives, we suggest that one way of getting beyond these dichotomies consists in focusing on the 'interactional' dimension of interculturality, which means laying emphasis on intersubjectivity and, particularly, on the individual subjects considered as members of different cultural communities who strive to transcend their sociocultural boundaries in order to reach harmonious interactions in a world in which inequality and the de-territorialization of people and cultures are central features.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.47-59
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• 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a Korean version of Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (K-PASE) from PASE and to evaluate the validity and reliability of the K-PASE. This scale was originally developed by Washburn et al. (1993). A valid and reliable physical activity scale for the elderly is needed to assess accurately physical activity of the elderly, because there has been no valid and reliable physical activity scale for the elderly in Korea. Methods: The K-PASE was developed from PASE through linguistic validation and cultural adaptation for use with this population. Convenient sampling was used to recruit participants. Reliability was evaluated by conducting the test-retest and convergent validity was evaluated by Pearson correlation. Results: Test-retest reliability, assessed over a 2 week interval, was r=.94. Convergent validity was established by correlating the KPASE scores between related variables which were the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology Index of Competence (TMIG-IC) and hand-grip strength. Scores of the K-PASE had a low significant correlation with TMIG-IC (r=.246, p<.001), and hand-grip strength (r=.251, p<.001). The mean score of physical activity of Korean elderly assessed by the K-PASE was 96.5. Conclusion: We conclude that the K-PASE is a reliable and valid instrument to assess physical activity for Korean elderly.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.383-390
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• 2020

본 연구는 알츠하이머와 혈관성 치매 환자를 대상으로 구어유창성과 이야기이해 과제 수행능력의 차이 및 작업기억 처리수준과의 상관 그리고 언어능력 관련 요인선별을 위해 시행되었다. 전반적인 인지능력에서 차이를 보이지 않는 각기 15명의 환자를 대상으로 구어유창성 내 음소유창성 및 이야기이해 그리고 작업기억 하위과제인 지연회상과 재인과제에서 두 그룹 간 유의한 수행능력의 차이를 보였다. 상관 및 회귀분석에서는 알츠하이머 그룹이 작업기억 내역행 숫자기억 과제와 이야기이해 과제에서만 유의한 상관을 보인 반면, 혈관성 치매 그룹은 추가적으로 재인 점수에서도 이야기이해 능력과의 유의한 상관이 나타났다. 한편, 회귀분석에서는 혈관성 치매 그룹에서만 언어적 작업기억 능력이 이야기이해 능력의 예측 요인임을 확인하였다. 결론적으로 두 유형의 치매를 구분하는 데 있어 음소유창성 과제 외에 이야기이해 및 작업기억 과제가 유의한 도구임이 확인되었는데, 이를 통해 두 유형의 치매에 대한 분류기준을 제고함은 물론 적절한 치료계획 및 효율적인 중재에 부가적인 기여를 할 것으로 보인다.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.158-165
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• 2022

본 연구는 영어원어민과 비원어민이 영어로 대화할 때 의사소통을 위해 어떻게 상호 협상하는가를 조명하고자 하였다. 본 연구에는 영어원어민 20명과 한국 대학생 20명으로 총 40명이 참여하였다. 참여자들은 한 명의 영어원어민과 한 명의 비원어민으로 한 쌍을 이루는 식으로 해서 20쌍으로 나뉘었다. 데이터 수집을 위해서 참여자들에게 영어로 대화할 수 있는 과제들이 주어졌고 그들의 대화는 녹음되었다. 총 37개의 녹음된 대화가 전사되었고 전사된 대화는 분석에 사용되었으며 통계분석들을 실시하였다. 본 연구결과에 의하면, 영어원어민과 비원어민 모두 성공적인 의사소통을 위해 상호 노력한 것으로 나타났다. 특히 원어민들은 대체로 비원어민들이 말을 할 수 있도록 부추기며 대화의 자연스러운 흐름을 주도하는 역할을 한 반면에 비원어민들은 그들의 목표언어 능력의 부족으로 인하여 대화전략들을 많이 구사한 것으로 드러났다. 비원어민들은 대화를 지속하기 위해 광범위한 전략들을 활용하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 원어민과 비원어민 간의 상호작용에 대한 이해를 높이며 교육적인 시사점을 내포한다.

• 대한수학교육학회지:수학교육학연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.351-367
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• 1999

This study aims to study the discourses influencing high school students' concept and attitude toward mathematics, and to examine how gender differences concerning mathematical aptitude are created. This study is based on the results of previous two studies which suggested that mathematical competence differs not only according to gender, region and school year, but also even within the same gender. For this study, 12 students ranking in the top 10% at two co-ed high schools were interviewed to find out 1) what discourses are related to gender and mathematics, 2) in what way these discourses are formulated and gain currency, and 3) how they have affected students in general. Common notions concerning mathematics may be summed up as follows: 1) Most of the students believe that gender difference in mathematical aptitude results because biologically men tend to be strong in mathematics and analytical skills while women tend to have better linguistic ability. This concept can help male students' studying to have a greater learning toward mathematics. 2) A large number of the students believe that male students' studying method is based on comprehension whereas female students' method is based on retention, and hence the former group tends to be better at applying their learning than the latter group. This notion seres to encourage male students and discourage female students from tackling difficult mathematical problems. 3) Many students believe that, although female students may surpass their male counterparts in middle school or the first year of high school, they will eventually fall behind by the 3rd year. Despite research which shows that these common beliefs are not grounded in scientific proof, high-school girls, who may be strong in mathematics, lose self-confidence and feel a sense of crisis. The mechanisms which produce and reinforce such concepts as those mentioned above can be summarized as follows: 1) Regarding the choice of majors and future career paths, parents show different attitudes toward sons and daughters, and this tends to influence high-school girls and hinders them from entering mathematics-related fields. 2) Teachers with value systems based on stereo-typed gender roles affect students a great deal, and give different advice according to gender of their students, for selecting their major fields - for instance, whether to study the natural sciences as opposed to humanities. 3) This study indicates that peer-group behavior, of either support or exclusion, also reinforces the process of internalizing notions of gender difference related to mathematical aptitude. 4) The gender-based notion that men are naturally more inclined to have better mathematical ability has caused male students to choose the natural science subjects and female students to turn to the humanities. The discourses discussed above, propagated in schools and homes, and in the mass media, are continually reinforced along with general gender inequalities in the society at large.