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Perspectives on EFL Teachers' Responding to Students' Writing at the Semantic Level

  • Chang, Kyung-Suk
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • no.3
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    • pp.185-201
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    • 1997
  • This study explores perspectives on responding to EFL students' compositions at the semantic level. In the last three decades, there has been a shift from product-oriented approach to process-oriented one to teaching writing. The shift has led to the criticism of the traditional view on teacher response. The traditional view has been under attack for its overemphasis upon form and ineffectiveness on improving student writing skill. It is also noted that research into students' reactions to the traditional teacher response has been inconclusive. The process-oriented approach, on the other hand, draws its attention to meaning and the logical development of thought as well as linguistic matters. In this context, the present study discusses what EFL teachers need to take into account in providing the semantic-level feedback on students' compositions. Firstly, teacher response to student writing is on-going; teacher feedback involves teacher intervention in the drafting process, the revision process, and the presentation of product. Secondly, in the writing conferences, the teacher provides students an opportunity to talk about writing, assistance and advice on the content/meaning of the written text, helping them expand and clarify thinking about audience(reader) and purpose.

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Learning from the L2 Expository Text

  • Kim, Jung-Tae
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.21-40
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    • 2004
  • This study Questioned what happens in L2 reading comprehension of the expository text, as measured by recall and inference-making abilities, when a L2 reader was induced to develop a content schema about the topic of a target text, but the structure of that schema departs from the structure of the target text Seventy-four. Korean university students read either the same version text twice (consistent condition) or two different version texts (inconsistent condition) with a three-day interval between the two readings. The results of a verification test indicate that, for those subjects with higher L2 reading proficiency, the inconsistent condition was more beneficial than the consistent condition for the inference-making task. On the other hand, for lower-level L2 readers, the consistent condition was more favorable for the recall task. It was concluded that inducing a structurally inconsistent schema through an L2 pre-reading would be beneficial only when the reader's L2 linguistic ability is proficient enough to produce necessary propositions from the pre-reading.

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Analyzer to Identify Phrases and the Functional Roles in Sentences: Its Architectural Aspects

  • Alam, Yukiko Sasaki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.67-75
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents the architectural aspects of the phrase analyzer that attempts to recognize phrases and identify the functional roles in the sentences in formal Japanese documents. Since the object of interest is a phrase, the current system, designed in an object-oriented architecture, contains the Phrase class, and makes use of the linguistic generalization about languages with Case markers that a phrase, whether a noun phrase, a verb phrase, a postposition (or preposition) phrase or a clause phrase, can be separated into the content and the function components. Without a dictionary, and drawing on the orthographic information on the words to parse, it also contains a class that identifies the types of characters, a class representing grammar, and a class playing the role of a controller. The system has a simple and intuitive structure, externally and internally, and therefore is easy to modify and extend.

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Content-Based Summarization of Educational Linguistic Video Using Multiple Features (다중 특징 값을 이용한 교육용 어학 비디오의 내용기반 요약)

  • Han Hee Jun;Kim Cheon Seog;Choo Jin Ho;Ro Yong Man
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.3-6
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    • 2003
  • 방송 서비스상의 교육용 어학 컨텐츠의 증가와 더불어 비디오 컨텐츠의 효율적인 제공, 이용 및 관리를 위한 내용 기반 요약에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 교육용 어학 비디오의 내용 기반 요약을 위한 방법을 제안한다. 디지털 비디오로부터 샷 경계를 추출한 후 각 샷을 대표하는 키프레임으로부터 MPEG-7 비주얼 특징 값들을 추출한다. 추출된 특징 값들의 다중 조합을 통해 교육용 어학 비디오의 내용 정보를 세분화하여 요약 결과를 생성한다. 외국어 회화 컨텐츠에 대해 실험하여 알고리즘의 효용성을 검증하였으며. 제안한 방법은 교육용 방송 컨텐츠의 다양한 서비스 제공 및 관리론 위한 비디오 요약 시스템에 효율적으로 이용될 것이다.

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Microblog Sentiment Analysis Method Based on Spectral Clustering

  • Dong, Shi;Zhang, Xingang;Li, Ya
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.727-739
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    • 2018
  • This study evaluates the viewpoints of user focus incidents using microblog sentiment analysis, which has been actively researched in academia. Most existing works have adopted traditional supervised machine learning methods to analyze emotions in microblogs; however, these approaches may not be suitable in Chinese due to linguistic differences. This paper proposes a new microblog sentiment analysis method that mines associated microblog emotions based on a popular microblog through user-building combined with spectral clustering to analyze microblog content. Experimental results for a public microblog benchmark corpus show that the proposed method can improve identification accuracy and save manually labeled time compared to existing methods.

Textual Linguistic analysis of 'Letters to parents' in elementary schools (초등학교 '가정통신문'의 텍스트 언어학적 분석 - 구조, 기능, 화행 유형을 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Yu Mi
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.26
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    • pp.487-508
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze communication between school and parents using the "letters to the parents", in order to examine possible areas of improvement for enhancing educational opportunities and school life adjustment for children from multi-cultural families. The letters to the parents used in elementary schools were analysed through genre analysis specifically for this study. At first, the Korean language textbooks for married female immigrants were investigated to see how many letters to parents were included in them. Second, letters to parents were collected to research their structure and content. They were categorized by the text type according to functions and speech acts. It is expected that the results of this study will be helpful for the Korean language education of married female immigrants.

Diagrammatic Reasoning in Joseon Mathematics Book 'JuseoGwangyeon' (조선 산학서 《주서관견》의 도해적 추론)

  • CHANG Hyewon
    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.61-78
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    • 2023
  • By virtue of the characteristics inherent in diagrams, diagrammatic reasoning has potential and limitations that distinguish it from general thinking. It is natural that diagrams rarely appeared in Joseon mathematical books, which were heavily focused on computation and algebra in content, and preferred linguistic expressions in form. However, as the late Joseon Dynasty unfolded, there emerged a noticeable increase in the frequency of employing diagrams, due to the educational purposes to facilitate explanations and the influence of Western mathematics. Analyzing the role of diagrams included in Jo Taegu's 'JuseoGwangyeon', an exemplary book, this study includes discussions on the utilization of diagrams from the perspective of mathematics education, based on the findings of the analysis.

An Analysis of Current States and Information Content of Author Abstracts in the Field of Social Sciences (한글 초록의 현황과 내용분석 - 사회과학분야 저자초록을 중심으로 -)

  • Chang Hye-Rhan
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 1996
  • To understand the present states of abstracting and to investigate contents of abstracts, a survey content analysis was done in the field sciences. Of the 102 nation wide scholarly journals examined $54(53\%)$ included abstracts with articles. 33 had abstracts in Korea Among the 34 journals with editorial statements about abstracting only 13 had suggestions about abstract contents. Based on the investigation, 4 disciplines having abstracts mostly was selected and 149 abstracts in the 4 major journals in each discipline were sampled. Complete abstracts were ama;uzed according to 12 variables covering required content elements, unnecessary statements, and writing styles. Statistical characteristics of the abstracts is varied among disciplines and the scope is very wide. Particularly number of paragraph and number of character per abstract is much different from the standards. The content analysis showed $51\%$ of the abstracts were incomplete. $39\%$ of the abstracts did not mention research method used. 59 abstracts included unnecessary statements. Writing stle analysis also showed many faults both in the pronoun abuse and the misuse of voice or tense. Korean author abstracts in social science scholarly journals have deficiencies in linguistic structures as well as in contents and style.

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The Breach and Distance between Language and Experience (언어와 경험: 괴리와 거리)

  • Noh, Yang-jin
    • Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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    • v.116
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    • pp.59-78
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    • 2010
  • The main purpose of this paper is to show how the notion of the language-experience correspondence is ill-grounded, and that the notion of 'literal meaning' based on it accordingly goes nowhere. Drawing on the experientialist view, I observed that language itself is a system of signs, and thus is given meaning only by way of symbolization. According to the experientialist account, the meaning of a signifier is given by means of "symbolic mapping." in which a certain portion of experience-content is mapped onto the signifier. And since symbolic mapping is partial by nature, there must come in some breach between the signifier and the experience-content mapped onto it. The partial nature of symbolic mapping repudiates the very notion of correspondence, and accordingly the notion of literal meaning. Rather, meanings are produced by means of the varied distances between the signifier and the mapped experience. In this perspective, the inquiry into the nature and structure of meaning should become part of one into that of symbolic experience. Such an inquiry may not be expected to reach the objectivity of linguistic meaning. Instead, we may be content with the relative stability in communication, which seems to be grounded in the commonality conspicuously observed at the bodily level of human experience.

Comparative Study on Visual and Perceptual Difference Towards the Artworks of Human and Artificial Intelligence Using Eye-Tracking (시선추적장치(Eye Tracking)를 활용한 인공지능(AI) 창작물과 사람의 창작물에 대한 시지각 비교 연구)

  • Hwang, Mi Kyung;Zhou, Yi Mou;Park, Min Hee;Kwon, Mahn Woo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.374-381
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    • 2022
  • This study analyzes the visual perceptual difference of observers in the artworks created by human artists and artificial intelligence(AI) through eye-tracking. More specifically, the study analyzes the degree of visual attention through a fixation experiment on non-linguistic sources such as the formation and expression of artworks. As a result of this study, the subjects had guessed that one out of four artworks were created by AI (in actuality, 61.1% of the artworks were created by The Next Rembrandt). This demonstrates that most of the subjects hardly recognized the difference between the artwork of human artists and AI. From the comparative analysis of visual perceptual differences found through eye-tracking, more visual attention was found to be demanded for catching details of more stimulating visuals compared to less stimulating visuals. In the gender difference analysis, both of the female and male subjects were likely to stare more intently at the flowers of still-life paintings (Deep Dream & Vincent Van Gogh) while the eyes of a portrait painting (Rembrandt & The Next Rembrandt); this demonstrates no significant differences in gender. Various opinions on AI and art creation from different perspectives arose, therefore, this research is meaningful in a way that it suggests an objective examination through experiments with an artistic perspective.