The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 14(2). This paper explores the characteristics of feminine and masculine language use through an examination of word frequency in modern Korean novels. Through several blind tests of sample paragraphs from sixteen novels by Kong Seon-ok, Kim So-jin, Shin Kyeong-suk, and Yun Dae-nyeong, subjects were required to identify the gender of the author. The most striking result of the blind tests involved the unanimous identification of two paragraphs from the same novel as feminine. Applying the monoconc program to this novel by Shin Kyeong-suk, an analysis was conducted on word frequency. The result showed that there was a high frequency of words that functioned as hedges, mitigators, and positive back-channel cues. Taking these words that apparently led the blind test subjects to deem the author of Shin's novel to be feminine, a word search was conducted for the other fifteen novels. Though certain words in Shin's novels showed a similar rate of frequency, it was discovered that they involved different collocations. Hence, it may be speculated that this brought about a more mixed response from the blind test subjects. Such explorations show that the perception of feminine/masculine language use involves not only individual words but more importantly, their collocation within sentences.

The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent Korean college students can acquire vocabulary from reading course materials. The participants were 32 college students who enrolled in a TEFL methodology course. A vocabulary test was administered at the beginning and the end of the course, and the results showed that the participants were able to recognize meanings of an average of 3.6 new words, suggesting that small but significant amounts of incidental vocabulary learning can occur as a result of reading course materials. The findings also showed that there was a statistically significant relationship between the number of times each word occurred and its relative learning gain. The results of this study suggests that incidental vocabulary learning is possible from reading even though the amount of such learning is not large. Implications for vocabulary learning and teaching are discussed.

본 연구에서는 디자인 분야에서 접근이 용이하고 자연스러운 환경 하에서 제품 사용 중 표출되는 사용자의 감성을 측정할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 또한, 개발된 감성어휘 로깅 소프트웨어인 VideoTAME을 활용하여 제품 사용 중 표출되는 사용자의 감성변화를 측정하였다. 개발된 소프트웨어의 실험 진행 모듈에서는 실험 참여자가 실험실에서 자신이 태스크를 수행하였던 장면을 녹화한 동영상을 직접 재생해 보면서 자신의 감성변화를 평가할 수 있다. 실험 분석 모듈에서는 연구자가 각 태스크별로 전체적인 실험 내용을 재생하면서 실험 결과를 확인할 수 있고, 마이크로소프트 엑셀로 내보내기하여 다양한 측면에서 자료를 분석할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 실험실에서 피실험자들이 휴대폰을 가지고 일련의 태스크를 수행한 장면을 녹화한 동영상을 VideoTAME을 통해 재생해 보면서 자신의 감성변화를 평가하게 하였다. 본 실험에서는 태스크의 성격에 따라서 표출되는 대표 감성의 종류에는 큰 차이를 찾아볼 수 없었다. 이는 태스크의 전체적인 속성 보다는 각 태스크를 수행하는 시점에서의 상황에 따라 감성의 변화가 일어나는 것이라 추측할 수 있다. 향후 보다 많은 실험 데이터와 이의 통계적 분석을 통해 제품의 사용성이 사용자의 감성에 어떤 영향을 미치는 지에 대하여 밝혀낼 수 있으리라 기대한다.

This paper deals with false friends-the source of their sound image (signifiant) is the same, but the concept image (signifie) is differentfound in Korean and Chinese. It is well-known that these false friends frequently cause negative transfer. I demonstrate that the false friends between Korean and Chinese can be classified into four types: ① no semantic resemblance type, ② partially overlapping type, ③ semantic inclusion type I (Korean over Chinese), and ④ semantic inclusion type II (Chinese over Korean). The result of the contrastive analysis of each type shows a striking difference. In the actual communications, false friends between these two languages may lead to misunderstanding. In order to prevent negative transfer due to false friends, students are advised to carefully check the differences in meaning and function.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of using and authoring web-based vocabulary learning tasks on Korean EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition. The subjects of the study were seventy-seven EFL college students in Korea. They were divided into three groups: a traditional control group, and two experimental groups using and authoring the web-based vocabulary tasks, respectively. The major results of the study were as follows: first, the two experimental groups performed significantly better on the vocabulary recognition and use posttest than the control group did. This result indicates that both the use of the web-based tasks and the participation of students in authoring the web-based tasks are more effective in vocabulary acquisition than the use of traditional vocabulary learning methods. Second, both the experimental groups performed significantly better on the delayed posttest than the control group did. This result provides evidence that using and authoring web-based vocabulary tasks are effective in helping students retain newly acquired words in the long-term memory. Third, the learners' responses of the two experimental groups prove to be positive with respect to the use of the web-based task authoring tools in vocabulary learning. Based on these results, some pedagogical suggestions should be made on the effective use of the web-based task authoring tools in Korean English classroom settings.

Hong, Eun-jin. 2004. An Analysis of Vocabulary Errors by Japanese Learners of the Korean Language. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 12(1). This paper examines vocabulary errors, especially focusing on replacement errors in writing, of Japanese who learn the Korean language. Through the analysis of these vocabulary errors in writing, it was found that the important causes of the errors are native language influence, target language influence, and educational curricula, etc,. This study attempts to explain the errors through a contrastive analysis of Korean and Japanese. The results of the analysis are presented with the error list, the error correction list, and the study list for objective research. The findings of this research can be summarized as follows: First, errors with nouns that aren’t used in the target language are caused by the transfer of the native language. Second, errors with adverbs occurred in relation to sentence meaning rather than word meaning itself. Third, errors with number adjectives appeared in the combinations of ‘native Korean numeral + Chinese-origin noun’, or ‘Chineseorigin numeral + Chinese-origin noun’. The teaching of combination rules about these sequences will help Japanese learners of Korean to decrease these errors. Fourth, many errors with verbs and adjectives were found to come from meaning similarity that exists between the native and target languages. Fifth, errors with collocations were due to the transfer of Japanese to the target language and also to similarities in meaning.

This study analyzed English words that are used in the middle school English text books of the 6th and the 7th National Curriculum in Korea. For this analysis, an English corpus of a total of 1,230,023 nodes was built out of 63 English textbooks of the 6th and the 7th National Curriculum. The study specifically investigated the following items for analysis: 1) tokens and types of words used in the middle school textbooks, 2) frequency of the words, and the numbers of new words introduced in each school-year, 3) high-frequency words in the textbooks with reference to those in large-scale general English corpora, 4) parts of speech of the words and their frequencies, and 5) the comparison of the words used in reading parts and listening parts. Analysis of the corpus revealed the following results. Regarding the average number of tokens and types, the textbooks based on the 7th Curriculum contain more than those based on the 6th Curriculum. As for the frequency of the repetition of words, the 6th curriculum textbooks are more than the 7th curriculum textbooks. Comparison of vocabularies used in the text corpus and in general large-scale English corpus shows that there are more similarities than differences.

This study investigated the relations among Korean phonological processing skills, English vocabulary knowledge, and the learning of new English words in 6th grade children. The children were tested in phonological awareness, phonological short-term memory, and naming speed tasks, as well as English vocabulary and paired-associate learning of Korean-English word pairs. Most tasks were significantly correlated with English vocabulary and paired-associate learning. In regression analyses, phonological awareness, short-term memory, and naming speed significantly predicted English vocabulary; and English vocabulary and naming speed predicted paired-associate learning. These results suggest that Korean phonological awareness, naming speed, and short-term memory are associated with English vocabulary knowledge and learning. These findings support the transfer of phonological processing skills across second languages.

본 연구에서는 사진 이미지에 대해 어떠한 감성들이 나타날 수 있는지를 확인하여 이를 구조화할 수 있는 기본 감성 모형을 개발하였다. 그런 다음, 이 모형을 바탕으로 주요한 시각 속성 중 하나인 색의 유무가 감성에 어떠한 영향을 줄 수 있는지에 대해 알아보았다. 연구 1에서는 다양한 기법과 소재가 반영된 사진가들의 사진을 제시하고 각 사진에 대해 감성 반응을 받은 다음 이를 분석하였다. 얻어진 자료를 주축 기법을 이용하여 요인분석한 결과 감성 어휘 변량 중 약 42%를 세 요인만으로 설명할 수 있었다. 세 요인은 각각 긍정적-부정적 인상, 동적-정적 인상, 가벼운-무거운 인상으로 명명되었다. 연구 2에서는 세 요인을 감성 공간의 기본 차원 축으로 삼아 색의 유무가 사진 감성에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 대표적인 컬러 사진 90장을 흑백으로 전환하여 컬러와 흑백 각각 90장의 사진 이미지를 자극으로 사용하였으며, 각각의 사진 이미지들이 세 감성 차원들에 대해 평정되었다. 감성 차원별로 색의 유무에 대해 t검증을 실시한 결과, 모든 감성 차원에서 색의 유무에 따라 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 흑백으로 전환된 이미지가 더 부정적이고 정적이며 무거운 이미지로 느껴지는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 사진 이미지에서 동일한 소재와 동일한 구도라 할지라도 기본적인 시지각 속성의 변화만으로 감성반응에 중요한 차이를 유발할 수 있음을 시사한다.

Neogrammarian regularity hypothesis represents the phonetically gradual, lexically abrupt sound change. Lexical diffusion, on the contrary, supposes the phonetically abrupt, lexically gradual sound change. According to Labov, neogrammarian change type and lexical diffusion change type coexist in sound change, so these two seemingly oppositional theories, in fact, mutually complementary. In this respect, lexical diffusion contributed to the study of sound change by fundamentally broadening its horizons.

본 연구에서는 인간의 감성에 반응하는 디지털 벽면을 통하여 색채 감성 반응에 대한 연구를 목표로 한다 사용자의 감성 반응에 대한 연구 단계로는 첫째, 감성 어휘에 따른 반응을 조사한다. 둘째, 감성어휘에 따라 색채 배색의 데이터를 형성한다. 셋째, 자동적으로 가상공간에서 사용자의 감성어휘에 따라 색채감성공간을 연구한다. 건축공간의 물리적 특성의 한계에서 유동적인 감성반응 환경의 요구를 충족시키는 데에는 많은 한계점이 따른다. 그래서, 본 연구에서는 이러한 한계점을 극복하기 위해 디지털 환경을 이용한 가상공간에서 실행하였다. 이는 실제공간에서의 시행착오를 줄일 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 빠른 시간 내에 인간의 반응을 연구할 수 있다. 특히, 본 연구에서는 감성반응의 실내배색에 의해 실내공간에서의 디지털 벽면의 디자인을 가상공간에서 개발하여 거주자의 감성 반응을 평가하는 것을 연구 목적으로 두었다. 이와 같은 거주자의 감성반응형 환경 디자인은 미래의 디자인의 패러다임이 될 것이다.