Acknowledging the limited opportunities faced by learners of Korean in the US, this study investigates the efficacy and challenges of immersive Korean language-focus residential programs in US college dormitories. Through an examination of a Korean language dormitory (called K-house) at a Midwestern university in the US, the current study sheds light on the optimal experiences and effective immersive environments that college langauge dormitory programs in the US can foster for both linguistic and cultural learning of Korean. By delving deeper into the specific programming and experiences of K-house residents, the study demonstrates that K-house facilitates access to Korean language and culture, enhances motivation of Korean language study, and cultivates a sense of belonging to the K-house community among K-house residents. Additionally, the findings of this study provide valuable insights for designing effective Korean language dormitory programs that promote language and cultural immersion in the context of teaching and learning Korean as a foreign language. Furthermore, this study offers suggestions for future research in this area.

한국어교육 기관별 교육 목표에 맞는 교재 개발의 흐름에 맞 춰 서울과학기술대학교 한국어 과정에서도 초급 1, 2의 교재를 개발하 여 사용하고 있다. 이에 1년여간 사용해 온 초급 교재에 대한 학습자 와 교사의 사용 만족도와 교재의 장·단점을 설문 조사와 인터뷰를 통 해 살펴보았다. 이를 통해 문법의 체계적이며 단계적인 연습 및 활동 이 제시되었으며, 실제적으로 사용할 수 있는 어휘 및 표현이 제시되 어 학습자의 만족도가 높았음을 알 수 있었다. 다만 번역이 없어 혼자 학습하기에는 어려움이 있었다는 점이 가장 큰 단점이었다. 본 연구에서 교재 개발 과정과 중점을 두고 개발한 부분을 살펴봄으 로써 향후 중급 교재 개발 시 번역 수록이 절대적으로 필요함을 확인 할 수 있었다.

이 연구는 한일 양국 간 대학생이 서로의 문화에 대해서 어떤 계기로 관심을 갖게 되었는지, 어떠한 문화에 관심이 있는지에 대한 실태를 파 악하고자 하였다. 그 결과는 다음 세 가지로 요약된다. 첫째, 한국대학생 의 일본·일본문화에 대한 관심도는 상당히 높은 것으로 나타났다. 일본문 화에 처음 관심을 갖게 된 계기와 시기로는 초등학교, 중학교 때 접한 학생들이 많았으며, 주로 애니메이션을 통해서 접하였다. 고등학교 이후 에 관심을 갖게 된 학생은 학교에서의 일본어 수업이나 유튜브를 통한 일본 음식, 일본 여행을 통해서 관심을 갖게 되었다. 둘째, 국가 차원에 서의 한일관계는 현재는 부정적으로 생각하고 있으나, 미래에는 좋아질 것으로 판단하고 있다. 한일관계가 나쁜 원인으로 역사문제와 정치문제 에 기인하며, 이를 정치인들이 악용하여 해결보다는 갈등을 조장하고 있 으며, 한일관계가 좋아지기 위해서는 서로 간의 교류를 늘려서 원활한 대화가 필요하다고 생각하고 있다. 셋째, 민간 차원에서의 국가이미지와 한일관계는 긍정적인 것으로 나타났다. 한일 간의 관계가 악화되더라도 국가 간의 관계와 민간차원과의 관계는 별개로 보고 있다.

모국어와 한국어를 번역하는 능력은 한국어 전공 외국인 학습자들에게 요구되는 핵심 역량이지만 지금까 지 다소 소홀하게 다루어진 경향이 있었다. 이에 본 연구는 외국인 학습자 대상 번역 수업의 내실을 기한다 는 목적에 따라 한국현대시 번역 활동의 한국어 교육적 의미를 확인하고 베트남 대학생의 번역 능력 향상을 위한 교육적 시사점을 도출한다. 번역이란 원문의 의미와 가치에 대한 폭넓은 ‘이해’를 바탕으로 번역문을 ‘집필’하는 작업으로 진행된다. 하지만 이 연구는 논의를 명확하게 하기 위하여 원문 텍스트의 이해가 번역 결과물에 주는 영향력을 확인하고 학습자가 정확하게 번역하게 도울 원문 이해 교육 내용을 도출하는 데에 초점을 맞추었다. 이 연구에서 제시한 시사점은 베트남인 학습자 80명이 <사평역에서>(곽 재구, 1983) 번역한 결과를 분석 고찰한 결과인바, 향후 대학에서 외국인 학습자 대상의 한국어 번역 강의 를 개설할 때 실질적으로 도움이 될 수업 내용을 안내할 것으로 기대한다.

Nearpod, an online teaching cloud-based platform, offers great potential to generate pedagogical tasks and yield better results in teaching communication skills. This study thus examined the effects of Nearpod-based English-speaking classes. To this end, one-on-one speaking tests were conducted twice in a semester, and a questionnaire was administered to assess university students’ perceptions of the usefulness of Nearpod in offline classroom. The participants comprised 39 university students who took a mandatory English class titled Communication in English. The paired samples t-test results indicated that the students’ overall speaking performance has improved over time. Specifically, compared to the high-level students, the low-level students showed a significant increase in speaking performance. The questionnaire analysis demonstrated that most students were satisfied with Nearpod-based English speaking classes because of enhanced interest, active participation in class, and increased interaction with class content and peers. The pedagogical implications are suggested and the limitations of the study are further discussed.

This paper investigates Korean EFL students’ learning (de)motivation factors according to the level of students’ English learning motivation. A total of 41 undergraduate students reflected on their past ten years of English learning experiences and submitted autobiographic essays with ‘motigraph,’ marking their annual changes of English learning motivation from 0 to 10. The data were analyzed with Grounded Theory. The findings revealed that the factors that increased or decreased English learning motivation were different according to students’ level of motivation. Students with low-level motivation were influenced by their teacher or parents, while those with high-level motivation were influenced by their past L2 learning experiences perceived positively by themselves. In both groups, the factors of emotional experiences caused by negative L2 learning experiences were the main reasons for demotivation. This paper emphasizes the importance of subjective appraisal in maintaining students’ L2 learning motivation and recovering from the state of demotivation.

본 연구는 1987년 6월 항쟁의 발생원인과 역사적 의미 그리고 6월 항 쟁에서 대학생의 역할을 분석하였다. 6월 항쟁은 한국정치에서 장기간 지속된 군부 권위주의 체제를 민주주의 체제로 이행하게 만든 역사적 사 건이며, 제도적 민주주의를 정착시켰다. 이러한 6월 항쟁은 국민운동본부 의 주도로 시작된 비폭력 항쟁이었으며, 시민들이 자발적으로 시민혁명 에 동참하였다. 그리고 시민의식과 덕성을 갖춘 근대적 시민이 출현했고, 학생과 시민들뿐만 아니라 ‘넥타이 부대’라는 새로운 집단이 등장하였다. 무엇보다도 아래로부터 형성된 자발적 시민대회가 전국으로 확대되었고, 권위주의체제 내에서 절차적 민주주의의 실현을 가져왔다. 특히 6월 항 쟁뿐만 아니라 민주화 운동에 있어 대학생은 핵심적인 주체였다. 또한 지방의 대학생들은 1980년대 민주화 운동의 가장 주요한 세력이었고 비 폭력을 주장하고 실천하려고 지성인이었다. 따라서 대학생들은 1987년 6 월 항쟁 이야기를 기록하고, 계승·발전시켜야 한다.

이 연구의 목적은 5･18 당시의 상황을 복기하면서 광주민주화운동의 요인, 기독교와 민주화운동의 관계, 5･18 광주민주화운동 전후 대학생의 역할 등에 대하여 새로운 관점에서 고찰하는 데 있다. 5･18 광주민주화 운동에 관한 기존연구들은 사회학적 측면, 정치학적 관점, 역사학적 관 점, 혹은 구술채록이나 증언 등 스토리텔링에 의존하는 경향이 강하다. 본 연구는 당시 생산된 사료를 통해 광주민주화운동 과정에서 대학생의 역할에 관해 주목하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 운동의 요인적 측면에서 1979년 10월 26일 이후 군부 내 ‘12·12 군사쿠데타’가 전국대 학생들의 시위를 촉발시킨 것으로 보인다. 둘째, ‘5·17 비상조치’를 통한 비상계엄령 확대, 정치활동 금지, 민주인사의 체포 및 투옥, 대학 휴교령 이 5·18의 발단을 제공한 것으로 생각된다. 셋째, 5·18 광주민주화운동 과 대학생들의 역할은 시민수습대책위원회, 시민항쟁의 직접 지원 활동 과 적극적인 참여, 광주민주항쟁의 진상 전달 및 국제적 확산 노력 등이 었다. 넷째, 대학생들은 민주화운동 과정에서 결의문 낭독, 반정부집회와 시위, 삐라살포와 전 세계인을 향해 광주의 진상을 확산하기 위해 노력 했다. 향후 연구에서는 대학교수들의 5·18 광주민주화운동 과정에서 사 회적 참여를 살펴볼 필요가 있다.

This study showcases an International Learning Exchange (ILE) program between North Korean (NK) refugee students in South Korea and American university students from the US. ILE programs connect two or more linguistic/ cultural groups for intercultural awareness, which provide authentic communicative environments. However, the prevalent use of English and research focus mostly on non-native English-speaking students reflect the ideology of native-speakerism embedded in ILE programs. The purpose of this study was to develop an ILE program that resists native-speakerism and to investigate its influences on native as well as non-native English-speaking students. Adopting a case-study approach, data were collected from video-taping, fieldnotes, student documents, surveys, and interviews. Findings show how the authors designed and implemented a principle-based ILE program. The responses of NK students show their growing motivation and communication ability. The responses of American students show their critical reflections on their native-speaker identities. This study offers insights into designing ILE programs based on multilingualism and translanguaging.

The study investigated if teaching summarizing skills could improve the summary skills of Korean EFL university students. This study involved 38 university freshmen in a required English course and were randomly chosen as the control and experimental groups. The experimental group was taught through summarizing rules, while the control group was engaged in other lessons during the intervention period. The students’ summaries were analyzed as to how effectively the participants paraphrased and integrated the main ideas, the major supporting details, and accurate information from source text into their summaries. The results show that a significant instruction effect was observed in the summary writing performance of the experimental group, in identifying main ideas and major details and paraphrasing and integrating ideas, compared to the control group, which showed a significant change between the first and second summaries only on the accuracy measure. The results are also supported by the questionnaire on students’ perceptions of the instruction.

This action research explores an effective teaching method for EFL teacher’s questioning types in a Korean online university context. By reviewing the previous studies on teachers’ questioning types which have been categorized mostly by cognitive linguistic tradition, this study sorts out the different questioning types from socio-linguistic perspective using the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) framework. These new categorized questioning types are applied to instruct the participant students (57) who were majoring in English and were mostly interested in TESOL (Teaching English to the Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program provided by the online university in Korea. Using a series of lecture content, two assignments, and an online discussion board, these newly added questioning types (offer and request types replacing command) were successfully taught in an online lecture entitled ‘Classroom English and Communication’ in the first semester of 2021. With a mixed analysis method, this study explains the procedures of various classroom tasks and analyzes the assignment data and online discussion board texts. This teacher classroom communication consisting of instruction and questioning needs to be reconsidered due to this study’s findings and its pedagogic implications that are clearly based on socio-linguistic perspectives.

This study reports Chinese and Korean university EFL students’ perceptions of and attitudes toward online and face-to-face English language learning modes during COVID-19. Few previous studies have focused on how students thought of online and face-to-face learning experiences of subjects regarding new concept learning and delivery of new contents. Research gravitating around English courses showed students' mixed perceptions. The survey was conducted for 302 Korean and 337 Chinese university students who took communication-oriented English courses. Descriptive statistics and qualitative data analysis were used for analysis. Results indicated that students preferred face-to-face English learning with some specific indications of achieving a stronger help and quality for communicative competence in language. Online learning also benefited students with a sense of both flexibility and independence. Positive components of face-to-face learning for language education might be considered for online education while incorporation features such as flexibility and independence to enrich language education during COVID-19.

This study investigates the claim that task-induced involvement load has an effect on vocabulary learning and examines the effect of task types and word concreteness on intentional vocabulary learning in the Korean EFL context. This study aims at testing whether productive word-focused tasks lead to equally effective vocabulary learning when the total involvement load index is equal but the distribution of index levels of each component (need, search, and evaluation) is different. The three productive word-focused task types are gap-fillig, sentence writing, and gap-filling through word transformation. In addition, in order to investigate the effect of word concreteness on vocabulary learning, two groups of target words were selected based on the level of word concreteness. In sum, the results of this study generally supported involvement load hypothesis (Laufer & Hulstijin, 2001) and test types and proficiency levels proved to be important variables that affect vocabulary learning. Moreover, the findings also indicated that word concreteness was not a major factor in vocabulary learning. The pedagogical implications and further suggestions are discussed.

Name is an individual symbol in human society. It is not only a language symbol, but also the crystallization of the history and culture of various countries. In recent years, with the increasingly frequent exchanges between China and South Korea, more and more Chinese people are influenced by the “Korean Wave” and choose to study in South Korea. A proper Korean name can help international students learn Korean better, understand Korean culture, and adapt to Korean life and so on. Both China and South Korea belong to “the Cultural Sphere of Chinese Characters”. In the past, when Chinese names were translated into Korean, most of them chose Korean symbols corresponding to Chinese characters, but now they are marked according to the “Loanword orthography”. But in fact, this is not binding, and can not be well observed. Foreigners’ Korean names have always translation mixed. This paper investigates and analyzes the preference of Korean name forms used by 211 international students of P University in Busan. The result is that China and South Korea are both belong to Chinese cultural circles. When naming Chinese students, it is not necessary to mark according to the Loanword orthography like translating the names of European and American. At the same time, cultural factors should also be considered for translation.

This study was conducted to investigate the dietary adaptation and use of the university foodservice (UF) in Korea according to the residence period of foreign students. The average length of residence in Korea of t he subjects was 8.2 months. The period of residence was divided into quartiles: 1-4 months in the first quartile (average 2.2 months), 5-7 months in the second quartile (average 6.3 months), 8 months in the third quartile, and 9-66 months in the fourth quartile (average 18.3 months). The regularity of meals tended to be the highest in the 1st quartile and lowest in the 2nd quartile and then increased in the 3rd and 4th quartiles. The frequency of consumption of delivery food and convenience store food was lowest in the first quartile and highest in the second quartile and then decreased with the period of residence. The frequency of night eating increased according to the period of residence after the second quartile. The degree of adaptation to Korean foods was highest in the first quartile. The use of the university cafeteria was significantly higher in the 1st and 4th quartiles than in the 2nd and 3rd quartiles (p<0.05, p<0.01, respectively). The satisfaction with the UF decreased as the residence period increased. Based on these results, since international students are very positive and try to adapt to the dietary life in Korea in their early years of studying in Korea, it would be desirable to intensively support them to adjust to their dietary life at this time. In addition, since it takes about 18 months or more to assimilate the Korean food culture and show positive changes, it is necessary to continuously operate the Korean food culture adaptation program for international students over this period.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, online education has emerged as an important research field to match its growing necessity. In this vein, this research explores one of the challenges facing online teaching of the Arabic language to Korean students at the university level based on the practical experience of online teaching in the academic year of 2020 while focusing on the role of students. The main goal of this research is to give some answers to its main question, which is: How is it possible to activate the role of students in the online classes of the Arabic language? The study suggests some online activities through which the role of students in online classes can be activated. An online survey questionnaire was provided to test the influence of some of those activities and to explore the students’ feedback. Additionally, interviews were conducted with some students to gain further understanding of their opinions about those activities. The results of the study showed positive feedback from the students towards those activities and provided some advantages of using those online activities for adding enjoyment to the students’ assignments. It is also recommended that teachers include more innovative online activities which match their students’ needs.

Considering critical roles of teachers in education, an increasing number of studies have investigated language teacher identity. Although many studies have reported nonnative English-speaking teachers’ identity, few studies have explored native English-speaking teachers’ (NESTs’) professional identity. Taking poststructural approaches towards identity, the present study investigated how two NESTs working in Korean universities perceived themselves professionally and how their identities were realized in class. Data were collected through interviews, class observations, and material collections. Findings showed that the NESTs constructed multiple identities differently shaped by various factors, such as previous experiences and college majors. One NEST had identities of a role model for foreign language learning and a caretaker, while the other showed weak identities as a teacher with identities of a writer and a babysitter. Despite such differences, the NESTs commonly manifested an overarching identity as a guide who desired to create safe and comfortable learning environments. These findings confirm close connections between teachers’ professional identity and practices.

Based on analysis of connotation and measurement scales of international student satisfaction, dimensions of international student satisfaction toward Korean university and impact of each dimension on total satisfaction were discussed in this study. First, through literature review on measurement of international student satisfaction and depth interview with 12 Chinese students, a four-factor model reflecting dimensions of international student satisfaction was constructed. Second, through regression analysis of 224 data collected by questionnaire survey, influences of four dimensions of international student satisfaction on total satisfaction were revealed. The results showed that international student satisfaction can be divided into four dimensions, including education service satisfaction, administration service satisfaction, facility service satisfaction and support service satisfaction. Education service satisfaction is the most influential variable on total satisfaction, followed by support service satisfaction, facility service satisfaction and administration service satisfaction.

이 연구는 통일 문학교육을 실천하기 위한 기초연구로서 대학생들의 북한에 대한 인식과 태도를 확인한 것이다. 이를 위하여 먼저 통일과 북한에 대한 대학생의 인식을 정보와 관심의 영역으로 나누어 살폈다. 충북지역 K대학 재학생 1～4학년 232명을 대상으로 2019년 6월 설문조사를 실시한 결과, 응답자의 16.8%가 통일에 대해 생각해 본 적이 없는 것으로 나타났다. 응답자들은 북한에 대하여 57.8%가 별다른 관심을 보이지 않았다. 통일을 화제에 올리거나 관련 검색을 하지 않았다고 한다. 그리고 연구자의 조사에 따르면 현재 남한 문학 교과서에 소개된 통일 주제의 소설작품은 4편이었다. 이렇게 볼 때, 우선 통일 교육을 위해서는 북한의 상황을 알리고 교류 확대를 도모하는 것이 필요해 보인다. 이를 통해 긍정적인 관심을 높이고 실천의 통로를 넓히는 것이 필요하다고 보여 진다. 이를 위해 통일을 주제로 한 소설을 교과서에 적극적으로 실을 필요가 있다고 본다. 이런 맥락에서 이 글은 ｢쇠찌르레기｣와 ｢림진강｣을 가지고 북한의 속살을 살피고 북한 소설의 양상과 교육적 활용을 고민하였다.

This study investigated the effect of automated writing evaluation (AWE) feedback on Korean university students’ revision behavior. Specifically, it explored the extent to which the quality of essays differed between first drafts and second drafts. Furthermore, the way individual students dealt with incorrect feedback in revising essays was examined. In this study, ETS’ Criterion program, one of the most popular AWE programs, was employed. In cases where incorrect feedback was detected, the first and second drafts were closely compared to find out how students altered the text in response to the incorrect feedback, and this was classified into one of three categories: successful changes, unsuccessful changes, and text deletion. The results showed that students’ second drafts were rated significantly higher than first drafts by two NS raters, which indicates that many students followed the revision suggestions made by the Criterion program. As students’ Criterion scores increased, their ability to identify and make successful changes in response to incorrect feedback improved. The findings of the study can advance our understanding of AWE use in an EFL context and should contribute to broader examination of how Korean university students engage in revision of their essays.