글로벌화의 영향에 의해, 제2언어의 학습은 갈수록 중요해지고 있다. 홍콩의 특 수한 언어 환경 속에서, 남아시아계 학생들의 중문 학습은 홍콩 각계의 관심 있는 의제이다. 본 연구는 중국어의 듣기와 말하기, 읽기, 쓰기 능력을 배양하는 과정 중, 홍콩 의 남아시아계 학생들이 쓰기 방면에서 큰 어려움이 존재한다는 것을 보여주고 있다. 남아시아계 학생들은 한자 쓰기 학습에서 많은 어려움에 직면하고 있다. 대 표적으로 나타나는 문제는 “쓸 줄 모른다” 혹은 “잘못 씀”의 경우로 나타나는데, “쓸 줄 모름”은 또한 두 종류로 분류된다. 즉, 학생이 중국 문자를 쓰는 것을 모르 는 상황에서, 혹은 병음을 사용하여 대체하기도 하고, 혹은 쓰지 않는 경우가 나타 난다. 또한, “잘못 씀”은 대개 6가지 경우로 분류되는데, 자의적으로 한자 쓰기, 필획을 더하거나 빼기, 부건을 빠뜨리고 쓰기, 동음 형성자를 뒤섞어 쓰기, 형태가 비슷한 다른 자를 뒤섞어 쓰기, 글자와 글자를 합하여 하나의 한자로 쓰기 등의 오류이다. 본고는 이러한 오류를 유형화하여 제시함으로써, 향후 한자교육이 나아 갈 방향에 대해 논의해 보고자 한다.

This study investigates secondary school English teachers’ perceptions and psychological burdens involved in the implementation of the speaking and writing tests of the National English Ability Test, which is being developed by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The study surveyed 138 secondary school English teachers in Seoul. Although more than half of the teachers were aware of the new test, 18% of the surveyed teachers were not aware of the fact that speaking and writing skills would be assessed in the new test. Also, 22.7% of the teachers were opposed to the productive skills test. More than half (56.2%) of the teachers felt some psychological burdens toward the inclusion of the speaking/writing tests. Although the teachers admitted that serving as raters for the new test would help improve their teaching, the majority of them were reluctant to participate in the actual rating process. The teachers felt that the difficulty of subjective rating and the lack of time for the speaking and writing tests were serious problems in implementing the new test. The teachers were sensitive toward the students’ test anxiety. They also indicated that they feel a strong psychological burden when making judgments on the students' performances. Implications and suggestions are made based on the findings.

목적 : 학령전기 아동의 글씨 쓰기 특징을 알아보고 글씨 쓰기 명료도와 시지각 능력과의 상관관계를 확인하며, 글씨 쓰기 명료도에 영향을 주는 요인을 알아보고자 하였다. 연구방법 : 한국형 덴버 발달 판별 검사를 통하여 정상 발달로 판별된 49명의 학령전기 아동(평균 연령=67.0개월, SD=3.4)을 대상으로 글씨 쓰기 명료도 측정을 위하여 자모 쓰기 검사지를 사용하여 자음과 모음을 모사하도록 하였으며, 시지각 및 시각-운동 통합 수행 능력 측정을 위하여 한국판 시지각 발달 검사를 사용하였다. 결과 : 글씨 쓰기 특징은 확산, 선 변형, 직각이탈 순으로 오류를 범하는 아동이 많았으며, 상하역전과 좌우역전에 어려움을 보이는 아동은 없었다. 글씨 쓰기 명료도는 전반적인 시지각 능력과 양호한 수준의 상관관계를 나타냈고, 특히 운동성이 요구되는 시각-운동 통합 척도 중 눈-손 협응, 따라 그리기, 시각-운동 속도와 양호한 수준의 상관관계를 보였다. 회귀 분석 결과 글씨 쓰기 명료도에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 요인은 눈-손 협응과 따라 그리기였다. 결론 : 5～6세 학령전기 아동의 글씨 쓰기 능력에 있어 특히, 비운동성 시지각 보다는 시각-운동 통합 능력의 발달을 향상시키기 위한 중재를 제공하는 것이 자모 따라 쓰기 능력(명료도)을 향상시킬 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있다.

A large number of foreign students enroll at Korean universities each year. Although a good command of the Korean language is crucial for them to be successful in their studies, and both university authorities and teaching staff now agree that students’ language ability needs to be tested before their admission, a valid and reliable test of academic Korean is still to be developed. The aim of this paper was twofold: to determine the Korean language proficiency level and language task types that are necessary to succeed at the university level in Korea; and to determine test specifications that could be used by examiners to appraise university candidates’ language skills. To develop such specifications, Common European Framework (CEF) descriptors of language proficiency were used. These descriptors can be used as indicators showing which language tasks a candidate should be able to do at a certain level. To create test specifications, academically relevant descriptors were selected and task types associated with each were analyzed. Many descriptors associated with the B2 level of the CEF were used to determine the language achievement level necessary for university students in Korea. Information about linguistic input and output associated with each language task type was also gained and applied from CEF descriptors.

The purpose of this study is to analyze writing activities in Korean high school English textbooks and suggest more effective writing activities in comparison to Chinese textbooks. For the analysis, two Korean and two Chinese high school English textbooks are selected. Writing activities are investigated in terms of three research procedures. The study begins by typifying writing activities as controlled, guided, and free writing, guided by Raimes’ controlled -to-free approach (1983) and Rivers’ five writing instruction stages (1981). Next, it examines writing activities according to the writing criterion prescribed by the Korean and Chinese national curricula, respectively. Finally, it investigates writing activities in relation to other language skills, such as listening, speaking, and reading. The results are as follows. First, while Korean textbooks include more writing activities than Chinese textbooks, there remain substantial imbalances in both. Both textbooks contain the most controlled writing activities and lack free writing. Second, Korean textbooks provide more writing questions than do Chinese textbooks in order to satisfy the national-level writing criteria. However, in comparison to Chinese textbooks, they lack writing activities designed to satisfy paragraph- level writing standards which enhance logical organization competence. Third, Korean textbooks offer more writing activities integrated with other language skills. Both textbooks most frequently contain writing activities integrated with reading skills.

A traditional assumption has been that written work in foreign language classes must be corrected carefully. If they were not corrected, errors would be deeply ingrained, and it would be difficult for learners to use the language correctly. Feedback has been viewed as a facilitator of learning and provides various kinds of information to the learner. In foreign language learning, this information consists primarily of modifications and upgrade their inter language grammar. Teachers" written feedback is a topic of continuing interest in foreign language teaching. But most experienced writing teachers know that responding to the students" writing can be the most frustrating, difficult and time consuming part of the job. Providing written feedback on student papers is the teachers‘ most crucial task. And it plays an important role in motivating and encouraging students. But in spite of corrections, teachers have found that students continue to repeat the same mistakes. Moreover the return of papers covered with red marks causes disappointment and discouragement on student"s faces. The teacher wonder if lerner"s errors should be corrected. If so, when should learner"s errors be corrected and which error should be corrected? How should learner"s errors be corrected? Who should correct learner"s errors? To this end, this paper will review the researches about these questions. And this paper will discuss and try to find the conclusion on these questions.

This paper is to analyze the components the writing textbook should have and offer a plan of the textbook for efficient education. Approximately 20 kinds of the textbooks on the market are analyzed in section 2. Components are selected through examination of related materials and preceding research in section 3. Also, the plan of the writing textbook is presented concretely, focusing on components in section 4. Structural characteristic of Chinese letter is considered, which means that combination of strokes becomes single-component characters and that of single-component characters becomes multi-component characters are regarded when analyzing the components. In addition, rules of stroke order and number of strokes are classified as their basis and examples are presented. It also examined the standard of selection of entries, order of arrangements, type of letter, appendixes, and indexes. To edit the textbook in accordance with the above-mentioned standards, the process of selecting entries would be required and this will be made up for by follow-up research.

Spelling is a complicated skill, which is difficult to acquire even for native language learners. During the early stages of learning to read, children use various orthographic strategies to spell and their spellings show different developmental characteristics. This present study examines Korean elementary school students" English spelling. This is a cross-sectional study: three hundred and fifty seven students" spelling data was collected from 4th, 5th and 6th grade students and analyzed for comparison from the developmental spelling view. The data was analyzed into two categories: accuracy of spelling at each grade and the children"s invented spellings. Results showed that the EFL children"s spellings have developmental features similar to native language learners or ESL learners. The fourth graders omitted vowels and substituted letter names instead of short vowels. As the grades increase, the salient features of spelling were changed; whereas the fourth graders showed low level achievement in CVVC words, the six graders" spelling presented increased achievement in the same category. However, they have different aspects in detail, e.g. Korean learners acquire diphthongs earlier than CVck, which is unusual compared to the native English learners. Finally, a conclusion was drawn from the data and instructional suggestions are provided.

This paper presents the rationale behind a newly-developed and implemented college freshman program designed to improve writing skills and the outcomes after one year running. In line with the current teaching trend of colleges in Korea, this program has several features such as placing the freshmen into different levels based on their writing skills, running class focusing on writing skills and giving a S/U grade. Comparisons between a pre-writing test and two post-writing tests show that this program has contributed to increasing the students’ writing skills. The students’ responses to the questionnaire of the program also endorse the test results. A couple of pedagogical implications concerning EFL writing education are suggested.

This study aims at investigating Korean high school students’ reading and writing relations in English with a focus on analysis of effects of reading journal writing which integrates reading and writing. Three groups (reading, writing, reading journal writing) had different treatments for 8 weeks. The results revealed that the reading journal writing group had the highest post-test writing scores compared with the two other groups. This group’s scores were statistically significant different from the reading group’s. The same results were also found in the higher-level group. As for the lower-level group, however, the scores of the writing group were highest. These results support the bidirectional hypothesis with a special emphasis on the interaction of reading and writing. The higher-level and the lower-level reading journal writing group had the highest post-test reading scores; however, no statistical significance was noted among the three groups. The results of the reading test do not seem to be clearly related to any hypothesis of reading-writing relations. The results of the questionnaire survey and interview and of the analysis of reading journal suggest that effects of reading journal writing can vary with reading texts and learners’ language proficiency level.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate effects of writing instruction using comic strips on Korean students' English writing skills and learning attitudes. Using both narrative and descriptive writing tasks, the experiment was conducted for eight weeks with 120 secondyear middle school students. The experimental group had writing activities with comic strips, whereas the control group studied writing using the textbook or free writing. The results showed that the experimental group improved English writing skills more, and had more positive attitudes toward learning English, than the control group. Lower-level students in the experimental group showed a marked improvement in narrative writing, while upper-level students demonstrated a positive change in their attitudes. Through surveys, interviews, observation, and analysis of students' writing, it was revealed that the experimental group reacted differently depending on the contents and type of comic strips, and activity types. Comic strips that dealt with everyday life and were drawn humorously induced more interest, while those demanding cultural understanding diminished the students' motivation. Student participation increased when drawing their own strips and sorting cuts of comic strips into order.

The present study investigates the effects of teaching activity-based integrative reading and writing on the amelioration of written language in the elementary school classroom. This study was conducted during the first semester in 2003. The subjects were 160, 6th year elementary school students. They were divided into two groups, control and experimental. Both the control group and the experimental group were composed of 80 students each. Each group was divided into three levels: high, intermediate, and low, on the basis of a diagnostic evaluation. All the subjects of the experimental group were integratively taught reading and writing of the English alphabet, words, phrases, sentences, and context, according to their level. All the subjects of the control group were discretely taught reading and writing according to their curriculum and level. They were also given a questionnaire of affective and psychomotor domains. Statistical analyses were performed to determine: (a) the difference of the control and experimental groups, (b) the difference between the control and experimental groups, (c) the difference of their level (high, intermediate, and low) of the control and experimental groups on reading and writing in the pre- and post- achievement tests, and (d) the difference of the level of the control and experimental groups on the affective and psychomotor domains such as interest, self-confidence, understanding, participation, and motivation of reading and writing in the pre- and post- achievement tests. The results of this study reveal that significantly higher scores on the written language were obtained in the experimental group. The difference between the control group and the experimental group was not significant at the beginning of the term. However, the difference was significant at the end of the term. It was also found that in the experimental group, interest was improved at the intermediate level. Self-confidence and understanding were improved at the intermediate and low levels, and participation was improved at the low level. It is recommended that researchers and teachers develop integrative materials of reading and writing more widely according to the level.

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether training of writing a daily work log using cognitive therapy approach can help increase work performance in a patient with depression using a single subject experimental reversal design (ABA). Method : The patient is a 19-year male youth with a diagnosis of depression of which onset was 2 years. While being on a work-aid program for individuals with various disabilities, he has shown helplessness, inferiority with his appearance, insomnia, and suicidal impulse besides depression. His supervisor reports that he often fails to complete his own work, makes errors and mistakes, and cuts his work hours. His training of writing a daily work log consisted of the following steps; (a) analyzing and writing about the circumstances, his behaviors, thoughts, and feelings at the happiest and unhappiest work or time on a daily basis; (b) analyzing and writing his plans about how to improve his unhappy feelings or circumstances, implement them accordingly, and the results post implementation of these plans; (c) reviewing his daily work log and discussing about it with the main investigator daily; and (d) writing 3 times and reading aloud 2 times his resolutions regarding the unpleasant circumstances, methods to improve the circumstances or feelings, and the expected positive results from his resolutions. This training was conducted for 5 days. Results : The results were: on self-reporting depression scale, a mean of 80% in the baseline and 68% in the training; on self-reporting on the patient’s work performance satisfaction, a mean of 68% in the baseline, and 88% in the training; the supervisor’s reporting of the patient on the Work Personality Profile, a mean of 58% in the baseline and 70% in the training; and on the self-reporting on the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale, 215 out of 280 full points in the baseline and 164 in the training. Conclusions : The results indicate that the use of writing a daily log using cognitive approach helps improve not only depression state but also work performance in a patient with depression.