• English Language & Literature Teaching
• /
• v.7 no.1
• /
• pp.137-160
• /
• 2001

This paper is to suggest the way to improve EFL reading skill through semantic mapping by leveled group activities. Semantic mapping is a categorical structuring of information in graphic forms or diagrams. It can be used to activate and organize background knowledge on topics in classrooms. For small group activities, the class is divided into higher leveled groups and lower leveled groups of four members based on their grades. The teaching process has three stages: Pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading. In the pre-reading stage, students discuss what they know about the topic. They map ideas with a brainstorming technique. In the while-reading stage, they read the text about the topic. While they are reading, they could ask some questions they might have and discuss the information in the text and categorize them with semantic mapping. In the post-reading stage, they discuss what they thought of the topic and add some information about the topic with semantic mapping. For the subjects of this study, third grade, middle school students were selected: 41 students for the experimental group and 35 students for the control group. The experimental period covered almost one semester from March to August, 2000. The results were as follows: 1) The students in the experimental group had higher scores in reading comprehension than those in the control group when semantic mapping was used; 2) The use of semantic mapping in reading comprehension was found to be much more effective in the higher leveled group than in the lower leveled group; 3) The results of questionnaires showed that many students became more interested and motivated in English, and semantic mapping helped them to participate positively in reading the English text. Thus, using semantic mapping by leveled group activities can be an effective alternative to traditional teaching methods for teachers who desire to improve reading skill in middle school students' English classes.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
• /
• v.3 no.1
• /
• pp.113-129
• /
• 1991

This study was conducted to compare the outward aspects, objectives, and the contents of Home Economics text books of middle schools of Korea, Japan, U.S.A. and England. The results were summarized as follows. 1. The outward aspects of tex books： The Korean text books were small in size and the quality of paper was inferior to those of foreign countries. The Japanese text books were written by many authors, contained many lab works and data. Text books of U.S.A. were big in size made with good quality paper and contained many colour pictures. Text books England contained many problems and lab works. 2. Objectives of the Home Economics and Unit objectives： The objective of the subjects of Home Economics was written only in Korean text books. The unit objectives were described most concretely and detailedly in Korean text books comparing with other countries. 3. Contents： Korean text books covered all six areas of foods, clothings, housing, home management, family and occupation and theoretical explanations prevailed. Japanese text books contained numerous lab works, lacked two areas of home management and occupation, thecontents included a few practical lab works two areas of home management and occupation, the contents included a few practical lab works. In the text books of U.S.A. contained all six areas of Home Economics were covered and special emphasis was placed on self discovory and self development, and vocational guidance was also stressed. The text book of England contained only three areas of Home Economics, clothing, foods and housing； the number of area was limited but the basic theories of covered area was intended to lead to self comprehension through questions and lab works.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
• /
• 1989.10a
• /
• pp.252-256
• /
• 1989

글의 이해의 핵심과정이란 글에 대한 응집성있는 의미표상의 형성과정이라고 간주하고, 참조적 응집성 처리, 상위주제적 인과성 응집성 처리, 상위주제적 대비적 응집성 처리, 글 전체 구조적 응집성 처리의 특성들을 우리말 덩이글을 사용한 실험 결과들을 근거로 논하고 이와 관련하여 한국어 이해의 일반특성에 대한 논의를 제시하였다.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
• /
• v.1 no.4
• /
• pp.105-109
• /
• 2009

This thesis describes the method for well voice announcement using the TTS(Text-To-Speech) technology in the shop music broadcasting service. Offering a high quality TTS sound service for each shop requires a great expense. According to a report on the architectural acoustics the room acoustic indexes such as reverberation time and early decay time are closely connected with a subjective awareness about acoustics. By using the result the customers will be able to recognize better the voice announcement by applying sound effect to speech files made by TTS. The result of an aural comprehension examination has shown better about almost all of the parameters by applying reverb effect to TTS sound.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
• /
• v.21 no.4
• /
• pp.243-257
• /
• 2000

This empirical test of the efficacy of the literature-based reading instruction was conducted with 63(31 male and 32 female) 2nd grade elementary school children. Subjects in the experimental group had 40-45 minutes literature-based reading instruction twice weekly; those in the control group had only basic text reading. Procedures included a pilot study, pre-test, experimental period, and post-test. Research instruments included the Basic Learning Skill Test(Park et al., 1988), the Qualitative Reading Inventory(Leslie & Caldwell, 1990), and the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey(Mckenna & Kear, 1990). Data were graded and scored by each research question and then analyzed with a t-test of differences between the groups. The experimental group showed higher word recognition, text comprehension, and story grammar strategies than the control group. They also showed more improvement in each of these categories than the control group.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
• /
• v.23 no.3
• /
• pp.101-109
• /
• 2023

This paper discusses the use of sentiment analysis and text summarization techniques to extract valuable information from the large volume of user-generated content such as reviews, comments, and feedback on online platforms and social media. The paper highlights the effectiveness of sentiment analysis in identifying positive and negative reviews and the importance of summarizing such text to facilitate comprehension and convey essential findings to readers. The proposed work focuses on summarizing all positive and negative reviews to enhance product quality, and the performance of the generated summaries is measured using ROUGE scores. The results show promising outcomes for the developed methods in summarizing user-generated content.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
• /
• v.20 no.11
• /
• pp.402-410
• /
• 2020

It is very important for Academic purpose Korean leaner to understand main ideas and overall context of texts. In order to understand the overall context and mail ideas of text, learners need output task, ways to perform what they are learning, such as retelling. That would help them to realize that there is a gap between what they have understood and what they can actually speak or write. These out activities help learners comprehend the text more efficiently, while at the same time raising their confidence level. The purpose of this study was to develop an education plan to improve reading comprehension ability by using retelling activity. To achieve the purpose of the study, retelling activity, which makes it easier to take an integrated approach to language function and is considered to be relatively effective, was utilized because of the characteristics of retelling activity education instead of teacher-centered education methods.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
• /
• v.24 no.4
• /
• pp.217-238
• /
• 2013

We investigated how combining different types of images with written text affects the comprehension of health related information. The types of images were picture, photograph, and X-ray. 47 four year college students were recruited for the experiment. The independent variables in this study included information presentation format, vividness of image, and the degree of awareness for the disease. The dependent variables were recognition and recall for information. The results showed that the information with images in recognition and recall had higher score than information with written text only. In regard to the effect of different kinds of images on comprehension of health information, information with picture had higher score than the information with photograph and X-ray. The vividness of image were found to work as a negative factor on the recognition of information. Finally, the degree of awareness of disease also failed to have any significant effect on subjects' recall and recognition. This research has implications for the contents design of health related website.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
• /
• v.11 no.4
• /
• pp.47-58
• /
• 2008

The purpose of the study was to reveal the effects of visual organizer types and cognitive styles in electronic text understanding. 126 graduate students were divided into a field-dependent group and a field-independent group, and then assigned to two different types of web- based instruction programs which included visual organizers of 'reduction' type and 'abstraction' type. Regarding the comprehension of contents, there were no significant effects of visual organizer types and cognitive styles. However, it was revealed that there were significant interaction effects between visual organizer types and cognitive styles on the awareness of structure in electronic texts. That is to say, while Type 2 ('abstraction' type) was more effective to field-dependent learners, Type 1 ('reduction' type) was more effective to field-independent learners in awareness of structure in electronic texts.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 2006.02b
• /
• pp.803-809
• /
• 2006

이 연구는 인터넷 소설을 읽을 때 사용자의 참여도에 따라 그 내용의 이해도가 어떻게 영향을 받는지 알아 보고자 한다. 현재 인터넷 소설은 소설의 양식이 인쇄매체에서 인터넷 매체로 옮겨졌음에도 불구하고 인터넷이라는 매체의 특성을 활용하지 못하고 있다. 인터넷 매체의 여러 특징들 가운데 상호작용성은 인쇄매체에서 인터넷 매체로의 전환을 이룬 다른 장르에서 주요 특징으로 고려되고 있다. 이것은 디지털 스토리텔링에서 사용자의 활동(action)에 관한 부분으로 활동적인(active) 사용자의 참여를 말한다(이 연구에서는 상호작용성을 사용자가 매체에 활동을 통한 개입, 사용자 참여도로 조작적 정의를 내린다). 또한 모니터를 통한 글 읽기는 인쇄매체에 비해 가독성이 떨어지고 훑어보는 글읽기(scanning)가 이루어지기 때문에 내용을 이해하는 데 어려움이 따른다. 인터넷 매체의 특성을 살리면서 글에 대한 이해도를 높이기 위해 사용자의 참여도를 독립변인으로 글의 이해에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 했다. 실험 1에서는 기존의 단편 추리 소설을 이용해 사용자의 글읽기 과정에서 범인추측의 정도에 차이를 주어 참여도에 변화를 주었다. 그 결과 사용자의 참여도에 따라 이해의 정도가 유의미함을 보였다. 이는 사용자의 참여도가 이해에 영향을 미친다는 기존 연구를 뒷받침하며 인터넷 소설에서 인터넷 매체의 특성을 살린 글의 기재가 글의 이해에 도움이 된다는 것을 말해준다. 실험 2에서는 실험 1과 같은 추리 소설을 이용하되 사용자의 참여도에 따라 소설 내용의 변화를 주었다. 실험 2의 결과 내용 변화에 따른 이해도의 차이는 나타나지 않았으나 자신이 선택하지 않은 경로로의 이야기 내용에 궁금증을 보고하며 글의 전체 내용에 관한 관심을 보였다. 이는 사용자의 참여가 글의 이해뿐만 아니라 흥미유발에도 영향을 미친다는 가능성을 보여주므로 상호작용적인 글읽기와 흥미유발에 관한 추후연구가 필요함을 시사한다. 이 연구는 또한 기존의 인터렉티브 스토리텔링 연구가 현 상황에 대한 보고와 구현된 시스템의 사용성 평가에 국한된 것에 반해 실험 연구로의 변화를 꾀하였다는 것에 의의를 둘 수 있다.