The purpose of study was to investigate university students’ attitudes towards English language learning apps and examine whether there is any significant difference in their attitudes depending on their personal variables such as their gender, major, grade, nationality, and so on. This study also explored students’ perceptions of English language learning apps that they have used. Participants were college students living in Korea and China. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire and an interview. Results showed that both Korean and Chinese students generally held positive attitudes towards English language learning apps, although Chinese students showed more positive attitudes than Koreans. The main reasons that they liked to use English language learning apps were their convenience, ubiquity, and rich resources. On the other hands, it was revealed that the lack of communication and feedback was the main problem of using such apps. Both Korean and Chinese students stated that it was an effective way to use English language learning apps to practice pronunciation, vocabulary, listening, and reading skills. Findings of this research suggest that English language learning apps should be developed to inspire users/students’ learning interest and foster learner autonomy.

The purpose of this study is to present the contents of ‘Korean politeness’, which can be used to learn ‘Korean as a Second Language’, from the perspective of ‘conversational performance’. To this end, first, the concept of Korean politeness was examined in two elements: ‘sociocultural norm consciousness’ and ‘conversational strategy of individual speech act’. A conversational performance model of Korean politeness was also investigated as a educational unit of politeness contents. This performance model is composed of ‘adjacency pair’ and based of ‘common ground’ including honorific and speech act requirements. In order to construct educational politeness contents for KSL learner, conversational scenes of the revised KSL textbook, Standard Korean for Elementary Schoolchild were then analysed. In conclusion, politeness contents of KSL textbook were revealed in three aspects: ‘practice of using honorific style’, ‘politeness routines’, ‘politeness expressions and strategies’. Based on the results of the analysis, the direction of politeness education for KSL learners in elementary school was finally proposed in both ‘speech act’ and ‘conversation type’ pragmatic education.

The purpose of this study is to examine a corpus regarding the use of discriminatory language and its perceptions. First, we examined informal job titles that indicate social views regarding the respective workers, and then we analyzed expressions indicating negative perceptions as well as negative expressions about occupations and tasks to determine negative views or attitudes toward the workers. Summarizing the results of the analysis, ganhowon(nurse) and cheongsobu(cleaner) as inappropriate titles, nogada(physical labor) and gongdori/gongsuni(factory boy/girl) as expressions of negative perception, and nogada and wunjeonsu(driver) in negative expressions related to occupations and work occur with high frequency. Ganhowon is used with titles for women like eonni(older sister), agassi(lady), and Miss ○, cheongsobu and pachulbu(day maids) with the titles ajumma(tannie) and ajeossi(older man), wunjeonsu and gongsuni with the epithets nom(jerk) and nyeon(bitch), and nogada with the titles ilggun(workers) and inbu(laborers), and such terms as jjapsae(the fuss) with a epithet saeggi(jerk/bleeder) are used mainly as inappropriate titles. Bad behavior, deprecatory social treatment, and negligent discrimination are conveyed in these expressions of negative perception. The expressions related to occupation and work were mainly used for professionals doing less respected or socially lower work or who do not work well, and there were many expressions indicative of low status or lower rank in the job hierarchy. Lastly, references to appearance and sexuality were those most frequently used in expressions conveying other occupational discrimination, and were found to be used mainly for ganhowon and gongsuni who are young women.

The purpose of this study is to develop a curriculum to help foreign broadcasters who will be in demand in the future develop pragmatic language and Korean language skills suitable for broadcasting languages. Based on literature review related to broadcasting language and Korean for Occupational Purposes, the broadcasting language conditions for foreign broadcasters were organized. In order to develop the Korean language curriculum, it’s been interviewed and surveyed foreign broadcasters who are working at Korean broadcasting stations. Based on the needs assessment, the education contents and teaching items were designed. The principles of composition of the curriculum established in this study are as follows. (1) Curriculum for Korean language and broadcasting ability for foreigners; (2) content that can be understood and proceeded with the characteristics of genre; (3) use the correct broadcasting language; (4) active response attitude; and (5) a broadcaster with the ability to understand Korean culture. Proposals for the curriculum that can help foreign broadcasters grow into good communicators of cultural content in Korea are presented.

The purpose of this study is to point out the problems of Korean language policy and education through some phenomena of variation and change in Korean language, and to show how they should go in the future. Since language policy and education are directly related to the status of language, in Chapter 2 we outline the current status and situation of Korean. In Chapter 3, we examine some of the variations and changes in Korean language, which are highly interesting from a social perspective. Based on these results, in Chapter 4, we present the direction of Korean policy and education as ‘rich and just Korean’. So far, the key direction of policy and education for the Korean language has been ‘window-dressing language policy’ and ‘window-dressing language education’. They have attempted to refine Korean by simplifying and abstracting the various language facts and disregarding of the elements that seemed not to be beautiful. The language policy and education caught up in the ‘beautiful Korean’ obsession have lasted for decades in Korean. Now Korean speakers should be liberated from ‘beautiful and pure Korean’ ideology. We should pay more attention to local dialects, North Korean words, slang and buzzwords, and net languages. We need to accept new concepts through contact with other languages. With its diversity, richness, and political correctness, Korean will be able to keep its place firmly in the strong waves of English and grow into an important language of the world.

This study examines multiple language-identities embedded within the emerging professional teacher identity of international graduate students teaching Korean as a foreign language (KFL). Situated in the context of Korean classrooms at an American university, this study draws data from two rounds of interviews with three instructors (one nonnative and two native Korean speakers). The qualitative analysis reveals that their professional teacher identity revolves around multiple language identities grounded in their L1 cultural norms and perceived English language proficiencies. Their views and undertakings of local cultural norms indicate the varying ways in which these instructors projected their L1 and L2 identities onto their emergent teacher identity. Given the vexed relationship between notions of teacher authority in her L1 Japanese culture and the local norms of interaction, the nonnative teacher maintained authority by establishing a certain distance from her students. By contrast, the native teachers accommodated the local understandings of teacher authority and (re)shaped their view of a teacher to the locally-defined professionalism, a teacher like ‘a friend’. The negotiated identity of the KFL teachers improved classroom interaction and engendered positive view about teaching. The findings are discussed to highlight foreign language teacher identity in a teacher education program.

In recent years, the foreign direct investment (FDI) of Republic of Korean enterprises in China’s Shaanxi province has increased rapidly, which drives the trade growth between Shaanxi and Republic of Korea and makes South Korea the largest trading partner of Shaanxi province. There are many researches on this economic phenomenon, but few people focus on the promotion of Republic of Korean direct investment on Korean Language talent education in colleges and universities in this region. This study takes Shaanxi Baoji University of Arts and Sciences as the case, adopts case analysis method, and points out the promotion effect of direct investment of Republic of Korean enterprises (FDI) on the education of Korean language talents in colleges and universities through the research on the development of second foreign language teaching, international exchange, faculty reserve and foreign student education in this university. At the same time, combined with the theoretical basis of linguistic economics and research results, this paper reveals the internal mechanism of FDI and language talent education, which has certain practical guiding significance to the policy makers for the language policy making and to the language learners for promoting their learning motivations.

The purpose of this study is to analyze how grammatical patterns of command in using hedge strategies function based on the principle of relative status in the Korean language. In order to accomplish the purpose, types of command in using hedge strategies are classified. The results showed that grammatical patterns of command are functioned to save the listener’s face from a listener’s viewpoint, and to strengthen details of propositions used from a proponent’s viewpoint. Also, from a speaker’s viewpoint, they are functioned to reduce the burden of command acts, and to agree with others implicitly or to follow his or her role demanded in the conversation. It also indicated that specific patterns are selected depending on language users, and context factors such as listeners’ reactions, hierarchical relations among listeners and speakers, their closeness to each other, location and formality of context, and publicity of their topics. Based on the findings, a pedagogical implication is suggested to provide language users’ multi-faceted competence in Korean.

한국어문회 한자능력검점시험 7급에 배정된 한자 150자를 漢字構形學 이론에 근거하여 분석한 결과는 아래와 같다. 150자 안에는 層次조합의 글자가 14자가 포함되어 있고, 6개 構形모델이 존재한다. 이 構形모델 안에는 構形理據가 희박한 3, 4등급의 記號字가 23자 포함되어 있다. 이는 난이도가 높은 한자가 초급단계에 배정되어 초급자의 한자학습을 어렵게 한다는 의미이다. 150자를 直接構件과 基礎構件으로 귀납하면 直接構件 총 수량은 149개이고, 基礎構件의 총수량은 141개이다. 이외에 基礎構件에는 12개의 變體構件이 존재하는데 이를 합치면 153개의 構件이 150자를 구성하고 있는 셈이다. 모든 한자의 基礎構件이 400여 개임을 감안하면 한국어문회 한자능력검정시험 7급 150자의 基礎構件 141개는 상대적으로 그 비중이 너무 높다고 할 수 있다. 뿐만 아니라 141개의 基礎構件 안에는 構件 하나로 글자를 만들 수 없는 非字構件이 28개이다. 이는 한국어문회 한자능력검정시험 7급 한자의 배정이 자형 난이도에 따른 과학적인 분석에 근거되지 않았다는 증거이다. 이러한 배정은 초급자의 한자학습에 상당한 부담으로 작용할 수 있다.

This study investigated how Japanese learners of Korean perceive the similarity of stop sounds between the Korean and Japanese languages. The results found, compared to the beginner’s group, the advanced group showed a lower rating value for the similarity for the same stimulus sound, and the learners with a higher perception ability distinguished lower similarities, even among the inner groups of the beginner’s and advanced group. This study also investigated how the related information in the native language affects how the learners perceive lenis consonants in word-medial position in the Korean language, as Japanese stop sounds are divided into two sounds depending on [±voiced] feature, whereas Korean stop sounds do not have a voiced sound in word-initial consonantal context, but the lenis consonants go through voicing in word-medial position. In result, Japanese learners tend to perceive the lenis consonants in word-medial position much better than other sounds, and it was shown that the related information in native language had played a positive role in perceiving Korean word-medial consonants.

어떤 주장을 두고 그것을 비판적으로 종합하는 일은 인문학의 사회적 책무다. 그 책무를 다하려는 이 작업은 따라서 ‘중국어 원지음 표기와 한국어 정체성 보존’이라는 구체적 문제에 접근하는데 어떤 방법이 더 타당할지를, 또 이를 토대로 어떤 제언이 가능할지를 이론적으로 탐색한다. 주된 방법론적 틀은 수렴과 분기의 변증법적 관계설정으로 삼는다. 궁극적으로는 문화적 고정성과 유동성의 모순을 한쪽으로 환원·포섭하려는 이론 생산 및 논의 주체의 욕망을 들여다보려 애씀과 동시에 그것이 생성시킬 벡터의 정당성은 다름 아닌 대중문화의 향유 주체인 대중과 일상적 언어생활의 영위 주체인 언중의 억눌린 욕망이 해방되는 장을 상 정할 때 비로소 획득될 수 있다는 주장을 내어 놓으면서 또 다른 비판적 종합을 기다린다.

본고는 2015 개정 교육과정에 따른 중학교 국어 교과서의 문학 단원을 집중적으로 고찰한다. 기존의 국어 교과서에 비해 2015 개정 중학교 국어 교과서의 단원 수가 감소하여 문학 단원의 작품 수가 현저히 줄어듦을 지적하면서 문학 단원에 수록된 소설 작품 양상을 분석하였다. 21세기 학습자들의 요구에 맞고 학생들의 정서적 공감대를 얻을 수 있는 소설 작품의 필요성을 제기한 후, 교과서 수록 작품의 변화를 제안한다. 그 대책으로 문학 단원의 소설 작품 수를 적절히 늘리면서 ‘청소년 소설’을 교과서에 수록하기를 요구한다. 아울러 2015 중학교 국어 문학 영역의 핵심 개념에서 문학의 본질, 문학에 대한 태도에 초점을 맞추어 이 조건을 충족하는 청소년 소설을 모색하고, 성취기준과 연관성 있는 청소년 소설 작품을 예로 제시하였다. 문학은 인간의 삶을 언어로 형상화한 예술 작품이다. 우리는 문학을 통해 삶의 즐거움과 깨달음을 얻고 타자와 소통하는 방식을 배운다. 이러한 문학의 가치는 청소년기 문학 교육의 중요성을 주지시키며, 청소년 소설 선정 기준에 심미적 체험의 소통, 문학을 통한 삶의 성찰이 잣대가 되어야 함을 시사한다. 문학교육은 학생들이 자아를 성찰하고 타자와 소통하며 문학 독서를 생활화할 수 있도록 이끌어야 한다. 그러한 까닭에 청소년기 중학생들이 알맞은 청소년 소설을 많이 접할 수 있도록 교과서 단원 속으로 적절한 텍스트를 끌어오는 것은 문학 교육적으로 중요하다.

본 논문에서는 한국어 쓰기 교육을 위한 교육용 게임으로서 text-to-scene 모델을 제안한다. 사용자 입력 문장에 대해 즉각적인 피드백을 제공하기 위해서, 제안하는 text-to-scene 모델은 사용자 입력 문장의 의미구조를 분석하여 장면을 자동으로 생성한다. 사용자가 문장을 교정하면서 자연스럽게 한국어 쓰기 능력이 향상될 수 있도록, 제안하는 text-to-scene 모델은 정답 장면과 사용자 입력 문장에 대한 장면을 함께 제공하므로, 사용자는 입력 문장의 어느 부분이 잘못되었는지 쉽게 파악하고 문장을 수정할 수 있다. 기존의 text-to-scene 연구에서 정교하게 장면을 생성하기 위해서는 필요한 자원 구축이 어렵고 처리 과정이 매우 복잡하다는 점을 고려하여, 제안하는 text-to-scene 모델은 외국인이 쉽게 이해할 수 있는 수준으로 장면을 단순하게 표현한다. 실험결과 격조사나 문장 요소 생략 등을 고려하여 15개의 단어를 임의로 조합하여 5개 어절 이내의 문장 1,048,576개 문장을 만들어 실험한 결과 제안하는 모델은 한 문장당 평균 14.94ms가 소요하면서 안정적으로 장면을 생성하였다. 외국인을 대상으로 한 작문 시험 결과, 종이를 이용한 작문 결과에서는 10개 문항 중 오답 문장이 평균 4.7개 나왔는데, 제안하는 text-to-scene 모델을 이용한 작문 결과에서는 한 문장 당 평균 1.56회의 미리보기를 하고 문장을 수정하여 0.87개가 나왔다.

The main objective of this research was to probe the DLM-based teaching method for Korean students’ English communication skills. For this study, the corpus was made of Korean reading materials with 307 frequently used sentence patterns extracted. The present research employing a quasi-experimental design and a comparative analysis of Korean and English corpora revealed the followings: first, the difference between the DLM (experimental group) and the CTR (control group) was examined in terms of the pretest score in order to identify the students’ level of English productive skills. After the pretest, meaningful translation focused DLM was employed in the instruction of the experimental group but not in the instruction of the control group. After one semester of teaching, on the posttest, the students in the DLM group outperformed the students in the CTR group. In conclusion, it can be inferred that the DLM teaching method is effective for English productive skills and can be a good solution to our English education environments in which both teachers and students use Korean as a medium of teaching English.

This study is to investigate the correlation between language aptitude and vocabulary levels of 5th graders of a Korean elementary school. The participants of the study were 39 elementary school students in Daejeon Metropolitan City. Language aptitude was elicited using LLAMA B, D, E and F classified respectively into memory retention, sound recognition, sound-symbol correspondence, and inference and application. A vocabulary size test modified from the vocabulary size test (Nation, 1990) was injected to the students to investigate their vocabulary levels. A correlation between each LLAMA score and vocabulary size of students was tabulated for their correlationship along with their statistical significance of 95% probability rate. The findings are: Positive correlations were found between each language aptitude ability and vocabulary ability. Among them, the correlation between memory retention and vocabulary ability is only statistically significant. This finding implicates that memory retention is an important factor to learn and retain new words, and learning vocabulary with pictures is recommended to reinforce the connection between meanings and forms of new words.

이 연구는 한국어 연결어미 ‘-면서’의 의미기능과 통사적 특성을 고찰하고 ‘-면서’의 형성과정을 문법화 관점에서 분석하였다. ‘-면서’는 ‘동시’ 의미와 ‘대립’, ‘진행’의 의미기능을 갖는다. ‘-면서’의 형성과정에서 나타나는 ‘-며셔’는 ‘동시’의 의미인 ‘-며’에서 출발하여 ‘상태 유지’의 ‘-셔’가 결합하여 ‘진행’의 의미기능을 갖는다. 범언어적 특징으로 ‘동시’의 의미는 화용적 기능으로 추론이 되며 ‘양보’, ‘대립’의 의미로 확대되어 화자의 주관적 신념이나 상태 또는 태도로 문법화가 이루어진다. 따라서 ‘- 면서’의 문법화는 ‘동시’의 의미기능을 갖는 ‘-며’에 ‘상태 유지’를 나타내는 ‘-셔’가 결합되어 ‘-며셔’가 되며, 이것은 ‘진행’의 의미기능이 첨가된 것이다. 또한 여기에 ‘동시’의 의미기능을 갖는 ‘-며’에 주제 표지를 나타내는 ‘-ㄴ’이 결합되어 ‘조건’의 의미기능을 갖게 된다. 이 조건의 ‘-면’과 ‘-셔’가 결합하여 선행절의 행위가 이루어질 것을 바탕으로 후행절의 행위에 대해 언급하는 ‘대립’의 의미기능이 형성된 것이라 할 수 있다.

This study aims to understand the foreign language learner’s internal process while they are translating. To figure out invisible internal process of the learner, Key logging during translation process, short interview after translating and behavioral observation were used. For considering behavioral characteristics for internal process, Pause, Deletion, Moving and Mistranslation were chosen. In particular, Pause was chosen to work as criterion when analyzing other behaviors. By analyzing those behaviors, three internal processes were found: (1)Deliberatiing on words or phrases following the pauses, (2)Considering ill-matched words or phrases between source text and target text, (3)Continuous checks on what writers had written down. Deliberations were generally found before the long-term pause. Learners were deliberating what to write on next phrases, due to their scarce knowledge of grammatical collocation of the target language. Considering ill-matched words or phrases between source text and target text shows variety of behaviors such as moving, deletion after the long-term pauses. According to the learners’ interview and researcher’s observation, it was arisen when the learners are fail to find the acceptable expressions in target language. Continuous checks on what learners had written down were generally found after the translation was finished. Entire part of target text was examined in this type of process. Thus, long period of pause was required for reading source text and target text, also deletion and moving was required for correcting mistranslated words or phrases. It infers that learners’ behaviors are combined to suggest certain meanings of internal process. Thus, these behaviors do not suggest solid internal process. With more elaborated analysis, this

본 연구는 대학 중국어 교육에 필요한 어휘 선정의 기준이 되는 『詞彙等級大綱』와 『신HS K 어휘』를 비교하고, 이를 바탕으로 대학 중국어 기본 어휘 선정에 적용할 수 있는 기준과 이를 위한 설계 방안을 마련하고, 이와 관련하여 어휘 교육에 활용 가능한 교육방법들을 모 색해 보았다. 또한 여기서 제안한 방안을 토대로 대학 중국어 교육에서 활용할 수 있는 중국 어 어휘 교육과 관련된 활동들을 제시하고자 한다.

This study analyzes the results of ten foreign language anxiety (FLA) research papers from the Korean post-secondary EFL context. Its aim is to identify some of the methodological limitations that persist in such research in an effort to influence the epistemological perspectives and methodological approaches of future studies. A comprehensive summary of the FLA-associated factors, variables, and pedagogical implications reported in the respective research papers is presented. Discussions include a critical analysis of the traditional cognitivist approach to FLA research, addressing issues associated with attempts to isolate and objectively quantify the cognitive states of the students. Highlighted is the argument that, when the socio-cultural dimension of language learning is adequately accounted for, many of the underlying assumptions inherent to traditional FLA research become inescapably problematic. The study concludes by emphasizing the need to adopt holistic, interpretive, and social constructivist research perspectives through which the dynamic and ever-changing nature of human activity can be more fully accounted for, and by which the pedagogical implications remain deeply entwined with, rather than detached from, the context in which the language learning activity takes place.

This study aimed to analyze the status of major countries’ online national language dissemination for overseas learners. This was done by the representative national organizations founded with governmental support. The study comparatively analyzed the dissemination status of the representative organizations of other countries and representative Korean organizations for Korean language education. The results of the comparative analysis of the major websites of the seven countries investigated in this study revealed the following characteristics. First, the websites were categorized into integrated single and divided dual websites according to their characteristics. Second, the language and cultural content varied depending on whether the websites provided information on offline education service or not. Third, there was a major difference in the number of service languages available on each website. Further, it was distinguished by its strength in providing a variety of specialized learning materials including self-learning modules, video clips, webtoons (internet-based comics), and study materials. However, it was also revealed that further improvements were required in promoting offline education programs and introducing the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK). This study is valuable because the analysis results suggest implications for improvements to be made to the website of the Korean language for better dissemination.