본 연구는 설문조사를 이용해 전국 대학생들의 생태통로에 대한 인식 및 지식수준을 알아보고자 하였다. 인간과 자연이 공존해야 하는 생태계는 사람들의 무분별한 개발로 인해 생태계의 균형을 파괴하고 있다. 생태통로는 이러한 생태계 파괴를 방지하고 생태계의 연속성을 유지하기 위해 설치하는 인공적인 생태적 공간이다. 그러나 국민들의 관심과 인식이 부족해 관리가 미흡한 실정이다. 그리하여 본 연구에서는 국민들의 생태통로에 대한 인식수준을 높이고 교육의 기회를 제시하고자 한다. 전국 대학생 100명을 대상으로 온라인 설문과 오프라인 설문을 통해 생태통로에 대한 인식 및 지식을 분석하였다. 생태통로에 대해 들어보았는지에 대한 인식을 조사한 결과 57%가 ‘있다’고 하였으며, 43%가 ‘없다’고 하였다. ‘생태통로는 야생동물들이 안심하고 통행할 수 있도록 나무와 풀로 뒤덮여 있을수록 좋다’는 지식 문항을 조사한 결과 생태통로에 대해 들어본 그룹은 22.8%, 생태통로에 대해 들어보지 않은 그룹은 23.3%만 올바르게 알고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이를 통해 생태통로에 대해 들어본 그룹이 60% 미만으 로 생태통로에 대한 인식이 낮은 것으로 판단되며 생태통로에 대해 들어본 그룹이 생태통 로에 대해 들어보지 못한 그룹만큼 지식이 올바르게 정립되지 못한 것으로 판단되었다. 따라서 국민들이 생태통로에 대한 올바른 인식과 지식을 가지고 있을 수 있도록 교육적인 측면에서의 지원이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

As English communication is vital for academic communities and workplaces in globalized society, learners seek for opportunities to learn English with specific needs for their studies and work. In order to make these learners equip with the necessary English communicative competence in the desired contexts, English teaching professionals and researchers now need to pay close attention to learners' specific needs considering the context of discourse and the features of discourse community. The main purpose of the current study is to present an overview of ESP research in English Teaching for 50 years and to provide directions for the future research. In particular, this paper (a) discusses the features of ESP; (b） overviews ESP research articles published in English for Specific Purposes from 1986 to 2014; (c) presents current status of ESP research in English Teaching; and (d) suggests topics for ESP research in Korea for the future.

The purpose of the present study is to learn about English conversation instructors, in particular, to find out (1) who they are; (2) how they cooperate with English teachers at schools; and (3) what needs they have to serve better as English teaching staff at schools. An online survey was administered to all English conversation instructors at elementary and secondary schools in Korea. Around 4,630 English conversation instructors- 2,920 at elementary schools and 1,710 at secondary schools- participated in the study. The collected data were analyzed: (1) to describe the characteristics of English conversation instructors; (2) to examine how they are sharing teaching duties with English teachers; and (3) to assess the needs for their competency development. The needs of English conversation instructors were analyzed by calculating the gap between the current competence and the expected competence. The difference of English conversation instructors competence development needs at the elementary level and at the secondary level were then further analyzed through Analysis of Variance. The results of this study can be used as basic data to establish the training system for English conversation instructors’ competence development.

Park Hai-kyong & Jeon Ji-hyeon. 2014. Move analyses of English job application letters: A case of Korean college students. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22(1). The purpose of this study is to examine the rhetorical structure of English job application letters written by Korean college students. College students were asked to write job application letters as an assignment for their Business English class. A move-analysis was conducted for the obtained college students' application letters. Then, the results were compared to the authentic application letters written by (1) Korean workers who obtained the interview and the job through their application letters and (2) native English-speakers who were in search of jobs in Korea. The results indicated that there were no consistent differences among the three group statistically. However, the authentic letters from the Korean and the English workers showed similar patterns in move sequence, frequency, and length, which was different from those written by the college students. The Korean college students seemed to use all the moves in their letters, whereas the other two groups seemed to focus more on promoting candidature(Move 5) for the communicative purpose of a job application letter. The present study suggests that an understanding of both the rhetorical patterns and the communicative purpose (i.e., to obtain an interview opportunity in the case of submitting a job application letter) should be emphasized in the genre writing process.

위석은 소화된 음식물이 축적되어 구성된 위장내 덩어리 이다. 담도위석은 매우 드문 형태의 위석으로 주로 담낭절 제술의 과거력을 가진 환자에서 발생하는데 유두부 괄약근 기능 소실이 원인이 되어 십이지장에서 담도내로 소화되지 않은 음식물을 비롯한 이물질이 역류하여 발생하는 것으로 생각된다. 이러한 담도위석의 치료로 내시경적 역행성 췌담관 조영술을 통한 유두부로의 제거를 시도해볼 수 있으나 본 증례처럼 거대크기의 담도위석은 유두부를 통한 제거가 불가능하고 수술적 치료가 필요한 경우가 많다. 체외 충격 파 쇄석술은 신장결석이나 요로결석의 파편화에 이용되는 기술로 담도결석에서도 드물게 이용되는데, 본 증례는 개복 담낭절제술 및 총담도-십이지장 문합술의 과거력을 가진 담도위석 환자에서 커다란 크기로 인하여 두차례 체외 충격파 쇄석술을 통하여 분쇄후 내시경 역행성 췌담관 조영 술로 제거한 흔치 않은 증례이며 거대담도위석의 안전하고 간단한 치료대안으로 생각된다.

A continuing challenge for English educators and policy makers in Korea is how to provide the right amount of good English education in an effective and efficient way, to help achieve the needed level of English communication skills. No efforts would turn out successful if the amount and the quality of public English education did not meet people's expectations. In order to plan and implement successful English education policies, it is necessary to figure out what kind of English education and how much of it are needed for Korean people. The current study aims to investigate what levels of English speaking proficiency Korean people perceive they need. The study first reviews some widely-used international English oral proficiency standards, then, compares those with the level descriptions of the Korea’s national curriculum of English. To gather information on the current level of English speaking proficiency, and the expected level of English speaking proficiency, 356 teachers (123 elementary school, 114 middle school, 119 high school), 696 students (179 elementary school, 222 middle school, 295 high school), and 650 parents (164 elementary, 212 middle school, 274 high school) from all the 16 district education authorities, were surveyed and interviewed. The results are presented with the discussion of the future directions of English education in Korea.

The current study proposes the directions of oral communication education for adult learners. It reports the preliminary results of a survey into the workplace oral communication uses of business employees. A questionnaire was developed and administered to 121 employees working at 6 different companies. The questionnaire was constructed based on the oral communication forms, adapted and modified from the oral communication forms categorized by Crosling & Ward (2002). The oral communication forms within the organization were categorized into communication (1) with similar status staff, (2) with supervisors, (3) with lesser status staff, (4) in team works, and (5) in meetings. The most frequently occurring form of oral communication at work was 'communicating for networking' for similar status staff; 'following instructions and responding orally' for supervisors; 'informal conversation' for lesser status staff; 'participating in discussions' for teamwork'; and 'communicating for networking' for meetings. On the other hand, the most difficult form of oral communication at work was 'persuading' for similar status staff, for supervisors, for lesser status staff, and for meetings; and 'chairing and leading discussions' for teamwork. Implications for oral communication education are discussed in light of these findings.

The purpose of this study is to explore communicative tasks carried out in global financial organizations in Korea. In particular, we attempt to find out some of the communicative tasks that employees are required to perform in their daily work settings. Interviews were conducted with twenty nine employees at the global financial firms such as Citibank, Goldman Sach, ABN AMBRO, and Credit Sussise. Interviewees were asked about (1) daily communicative tasks they carry out in English and in Korean at work, (2) the difficulty they encounter communicating in English and in Korean for tasks at work, and (3) the perceived needs to improve communication skills for tasks at work. The responses of the interviewees were categorized, coded, and analyzed qualitatively. Based on the findings, several preliminary conclusions are made along with suggestions on communication education for employees in financial sectors.

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 14(2). Working with others in organizations, people often need to express conflicting opinions. An argument is the process of harmonizing and compromising conflicting opinions. Many researchers have recognized the value of argument and conducted research on interpersonal argument, ranging from specialized contexts with special issues to more general conversational contexts. However, there has been relatively little research conducted on this important interpersonal communication aspect in Korea. This study examines the relationship between personal traits related to argument and personal success within organizations. Three personal traits - argumentativeness, argumentative flexibility, and verbal aggressiveness - were used to measure individual characteristics towards argument; and, the time spent for promotion, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment were used to assess organizational success. In addition, the present study attempted to discern if there is any difference in the participants' personal traits toward argument according to the group they belong to. The participants' background information such as the type of organization they work for, the type of work they currently do, gender, age, marital status was collected. The results of a survey administered to 202 office workers are discussed in light of implications.

Motivation is one of the main determinants in the success of attaining a foreign language. Accordingly, there has been a considerable amount of research on L2 motivation in the last three decades. These studies on L2 motivation, however, tend to depend heavily on quantitative approach rather than qualitative approach regardless of educational context. Although we have gained our knowledge on relationships among motivational factors, we do not have enough evidence to understand Korean learners’ L2 motivational ups and downs in a classroom foreign language learning. Suspending our current beliefs about L2 motivation, and investigating what facilitate, debilitate, and sustain learners’ motivation in a Korean classroom will provide us invaluable insights to understand the nature of L2 motivation. The purpose of this paper is to find out factors that is facilitating, debilitating, and maintaining learners’ motivation in an ESP classroom in a university. The participants were 115 university students enrolled in a business English class. The participants’ responses on the open-ended questionnaire were analyzed by the NUD*IST program (V.4.0). There seem to be some difference in facilitating, debilitating, sustaining motivations in learning English in classroom. Classroom implications are discussed in light of these findings.

본 연구는 직접메탄을 연료전지(Direct Methanol Fuel Cell DMFC)용 전해질 막으로 이용되는 양이온교환막의 개발에 관한 것이다. 투과증발공정에서 메탄을 Barrier로 잘 알려져 있는 Poly(vinyl alcohol)을 Base polymer로 사용하고 양이온 교환기가 포함되어 있는 Poly(acrylic acid)를 가교제로 사용하여 가교제의 함량변화에 따른 메탄을 투과도(Methanol permeability) 이온전도도(Ion conductivity) 이온교환용량(Ion exchange capacity) 함수율(Water content) 고정이온농도(Fixed ion concentration)를 통해 막 특성을 측정하였다. 메탄올 투과도와 이온전도도는 가교제인 PAA함량이 증가함에 따라 감소하다가 15%이상에서는 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 이것은 가교제의 함량증가로 인한 가교의 영향과 가교제에 포함되어 있는 친수성기의 도입으로 이와 같은 결과가 나타난다고 예상된다. 실험결과를 통해 DMFC에 적용가능성이 있는 막은 25℃ 50℃에서의 메탄을 투과도가 6.49×10-8/cm2/s 2.85×10-7/cm2/s 25℃ 50℃에서의 이온전도도가 2.66×10-3S/cm 9.16×10-3S/cm 이온교환용량이 1.32 meq/g membrane 함수율이 0.25 g H2O/g membrane 고정이온농도가 5.25 meq/g H2O인 PVA/PAA-160℃ 15% 막으로 예측된다.

직접메탄올연료전지에 사용가능한 이온교환막을 개발하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 폴리설폰을 설폰화시켜 양이온교환막을 제조하였고 그에 대한 특성을 150℃에서 열처리 전과 후를 통해 메탄을 투과도, 이온전도도, 이온교환용량 그리고 함수율 등에 대하여 평가하였다. 폴리설폰 고분자의 단량체와 설폰화제의 몰비가 1.4일 때 메탄올 투과도는 2.87×10-7 ;cm2/s(열처리 안함), 1.52×10-7; cm2/s(열처리함)과 이온전도도는 1.10×10-2; S/cm (열처리안함), 0.87×10-2; S/cm(열처리함)을 각각 보여 주었다. 그 이후의 몰비에서는 거의 증가하지 않았으며, 이러한 경향은 함수율과 이온교환용량에서도 같은 경향을 보여주었다.