Jeju is famous as a tourist attraction for both domestic and foreign tourists. Jeju has emphasized the importance of an English-friendly environment to meet the expectations of foreign tourists as international awareness of Jeju has increased. However, a lot of studies have mainly concentrated on the linguistic effects of English learning. This is the appropriate time to proceed with the nonlinguistic effects of English learning during English learning processes through English learners’ investment construction based on their imagined communities.

With the metaverse emerging as the next leap in the evolution of the Internet in the post-pandemic era, a wealth of opportunities are expected to emerge in the educational sector. As a pioneer study, this research project is aimed at exploring pedagogical values of the metaverse-based classroom in a university setting. The three research questions for this study are: 1) What are the levels of students’ overall satisfaction in metaverse-based classrooms? 2) What is the user experience of the metaverse platform? and 3) What are the strengths/weaknesses of the metaverse-based classroom as perceived by the students? Twenty university students took a foreign language pedagogy course on Gather.town in spring of 2022 for 11 weeks. Student questionnaire and focus-group interviews were conducted and data analysis revealed two major findings as follows: Firstly, both students’ overall satisfaction of the metaverse-based classroom and user experience of the metaverse platform were positive, excepting only instability problems caused by poor internet connections. Secondly, more perceived strengths than weaknesses were found of the newly adopted program: ‘a realistic classroom setting’ and ‘easy communication in multiple ways’ were mentioned as strengths while the main weakness was ‘newness.’ Pedagogical implications are discussed for teachers interested in adopting the metaverse platform for their future classrooms.

The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of AI-integrated MALL on Korean students’ TOEIC preparation, by comparing with AI-integrated CALL. A total of 496 freshmen students participated in this study. They were arbitrarily assigned to AI CALL (n = 190), AI MALL (n = 164), and the control (n = 132) groups. During a 2021 academic semester, the two experimental groups studied TOEIC through computers or mobile phones, integrated with AI technology. The control group was taught by a human teacher, in a traditional classroom setting. Before and after the treatment, TOEIC listening and reading tests were administered. Paired samples t-tests and one-way ANOVAs, were used to analyze collected data. Findings show that all groups significantly increased listening and reading test scores. Group comparison results show that the AI CALL group outperformed the control group for both tests. This group also outperformed the AI MALL group for the reading test. Based on this, pedagogical implications are invaluable

본 논문은 중국 정부의 소수민족에 대한 동화정책이 본격적으로 이루어지는 상황 에서 중국 조선족학교의 교실 안팎에서 이루어지고 있는 언어교육 현황에 대해 고찰 하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 중국 조선족학교의 언어교육에 대해 청각적인 요소의 음성 언어와 더불어 시각적인 문자 언어까지 언어교육의 범주에 포함시켜 교실 안과 밖으로 나누어 살펴보았다. 먼저, 교실 안 언어교육에서는 수업에서의 언어, 교재, 학 생 간의 대화 등의 음성 언어와 교실에서의 문자 게시물, 학생 작품 등의 문자 언어 를 살펴보았다. 다음으로, 교실 밖 언어교육에서는 문자화된 행정문서와 학교 곳곳의 시설물 문자를 살펴보았다. 그 결과 조선족학교의 음성 언어와 문자 언어에서 중국 정부의 정책에 따라 많은 부분이 점차 동화되고 있다는 사실을 발견할 수 있었다. 이에 앞으로 민족정체성 회복을 위한 조선어 교육 언어환경을 조성하는 것이 시급하 다고 하겠다. 이를 위해서는 정부보다는 민간 기관에서 동북3성에 있는 조선족학교 와 민족언어를 위한 다양한 프로그램과 협의체를 만들어 진행하는 것이 무엇보다도 중요할 것이다.

This study attempts to examine the distributions and characteristics of language forms and learning activities necessary for communication used in the middle school textbooks based on the 2015 revised national curriculum. To this end, 12 textbooks were analyzed and compared by grades and 4 textbooks by different publishers. The results are as follows: 1) Of the 38 language forms required for communication in middle school textbooks, 23 forms were commonly addressed in all the textbooks, while 12 forms were optional or missing, which may cause problems in articulated learning. 2) Even in the same language form, the level of difficulty increases as the grade goes up, which follows spiral curriculum. 3) Some language forms were omitted in the list presented in the 2015 revised curriculum, where only examples were presented without explanation. Explicit explanations need adding with elaborately classified examples. 4) Although the activities in the textbooks focus more on language acquisition than language use, they are well-organized to practice core language forms focusing on meaning in a controlled manner and gradually apply them to real life situations.

The purpose of this study is to present a diagnostic evaluation tool that can more accurately determine the academic performance level in Korean language proficiency of foreign undergraduate students studying at domestic universities. The diagnostic evaluation diagnoses the academic Korean language proficiency of foreign undergraduates, and provides the diagnosis results to foreign undergraduates, professors, and university institutions so that teaching activities can be conducted efficiently. In this study, it was considered that the ‘Basic Academic Ability Diagnostic Test for the Korean Language Subject' was suitable as a test tool for diagnosing to diagnose the academic achievment of foreign undergraduates. This diagnostic test is a diagnostic tool designed for Korean students in Korea, and it not only continuously verifies its reliability and validity, but also includes background knowledge that Korean university students in Korea are basically acquiring. To prove that the 'Basic Academic Ability Diagnostic Test' is suitable as a diagnostic evaluation tool for foreign undergraduates, the correlation with the Korean language achievement evaluation was analyzed. The correlation between diagnostic evaluation and other items showed a significantly positive correlation. When the diagnostic evaluation score was good, the pre-test and post-test scores of Korean language proficiency, and the TOPIC level was also high. This result proves that the basic academic ability diagnostic test tool is very suitable as a diagnostic evaluation tool for foreign undergraduate students. Also, the analysis result of the pre- and post-tests and the TOPIK test showed a very significant and strong positive correlation with the post-test, and the higher the TOPIK grade, the higher the score of the pre‐test.

Lesson reconstruction is a way of enhancing student competency, and has been receiving much attention. Research was conducted based on lesson reconstruction by applying content and language integrated learning: CLIL. However, drawbacks such as the EFL educational environment and the notional-functional syllabi in much of the English curriculum made teachers teach the 4 skills separately (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing), even though integration of 4 the skills is very much required. Although many researchers have analyzed CLIL so far, little research has suggested the specific methods of reconstructing, designing and implementing lessons in a primary Korean EFL education setting. In this study, the research reviewed the theoretical frameworks of the literature and suggested three potential methods for improvement: 1) designing lessons based on lesson reconstruction, 2), implementing the 4Cs Framework while planning CLIL lessons and, 3) choosing appropriate language based on ‘The Language Triptych’. For implementation, this research suggested that CLIL lesson integrated with other subjects or topics improves students’ reading abilities. This research goes beyond previous theoretical concepts; it suggested the ways of designing and implementing lesson construction based on CLIL lessons. The research also suggests that further research needs to fully consider its pedagogical application and explores how to practice CLIL.

Language use is divided into production and understanding in which each component has its own sub-parts, although they s hare core language p art (its f orm) in common. Given memory-based approach, it is claimed, at least five layers of our mind must simultaneously be activated to pass in a retrospective cycle in language use. A surface form, or a flow of sounds or letters, leads to a trigger to find an intention-in-action in any verbal communication that fits the situation of communication. This dramatically opens up a new phase to focus, once we deal with the overall aspect of language use.

The purpose of this study is to examine the typography of the language used on signboards with a focus on the typographical norms and to make policy recommendations that consider exactly which factors are evaluated when approaching this 'signboard language' as a target of language policy. most of the studies related to signboard language have classified signboard language as an object of purification based on the actual condition survey of signboard language using quantitative research. This study takes a different approach to try and examine which factors should be considered before classifying signboard language as an object of purification in the normative aspect. To this end, this study investigated the actual condition of signboard language markings on the Hangeul Sign Street in Insa-dong and interviewed a business owner who had experience signboard posting. Through the interview with the business owner, the producer of the signboard language, this study was able to find clues about the value of sign language-related transcription norms to the business owner and the direction of the language policy on the signboard language. In an interview with the sign language owner I tried to find clues about the value of the signboard language and the direction of the language policy toward the signboard language and looked at various factors to consider.

This study examines the concept of Korean ethnicity by looking into how the Choseonjok, ethnic return migrants from China, are perceived in online news comments. Data were collected from 3,109 comments, which were written in response to 28 news articles regarding the Choseonjok, and analyzed using a Python-based text-mining technique and critical discourse analysis. The findings show that the commenters perceived the Choseonjok negatively, including as potential criminals or social vice. They not only placed the Choseonjok in an inferior position to pure Koreans but also excluded them from the category of compatriots, arguing that speaking the same language and sharing a similar appearance were not enough to make the ethnic return migrants Korean compatriots. This study critically demonstrates how a group of ethnic return migrants is depicted in online public discourses and how this portrayal can shed light on the conceptualization of Korean ethnicity in this era of multiculturalism.

The advent of CLT in the 1980s led to the CLT-SLA debate which continued unabated for the last forty years. This paper asks, Does the now dominant Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) promote Second Language Acquisition (SLA)? In addressing this question, the paper first reviews and explains the social academic history of CLT; different versions of CLT (strong, weak); how CLT operates; its relationship to SLA, such as perceptions of SLA that have contributed to the development of CLT pedagogy (communicative competence, input, output, interaction hypothesis); and techniques used in CLT. Next, it deliberates on the most controversial issues of the CLT-SLA debate, including language forms, corrective feedback, teachers' perceptions of and approaches to CLT, and classroom conditions, followed by a discussion of the ease/difficulty of implementing CLT. It concludes with a discussion of how teachers can best practice CLT in their classrooms.

With the rapid change of social outlook and the emergence of new things, neologisms and neologisms have also become an eye-catching and vigorous field of vocabulary research. Since the reform and opening up, the social outlook has greatly changed , and new things have emerged one after another. New words and new expressions have also become an eye-catching, changing and vigorous field of vocabulary research. According to the definition of neologisms and neologisms, the author sorted out 100 neologisms and neologisms released in the past ten years (2011-2020) of "Chinese inventory of the top ten neologisms and neologisms of the year", supplemented some examples with reference to the report on the living conditions of Chinese language (2005-2020), and selected 200 high-frequency neologisms and neologisms in the past 15 years based on the standard of modern Chinese neologisms and neologisms (including more than 10000 entries from 1990 to 2016). From definition to Motivation and semantic classification, phonetic　and grammatical word-building features, word-making methods and teaching strategies ,all of the above are thoroughly analyzed from theory to practice.

This research aims to investigate and analyze the development status of Chinese-language media operated by overseas Chinese in Korea, mainly to analyze the existing development problems, and to put forward constructive opinions and suggestions for the sustainable development of Chinese-language media in the future. This paper conducts an in-depth investigation and research on the development background, current situation and development dilemma of Korean Chinese-language media in East Asia under the overall background of the general development of overseas Chineselanguage media through the methods of literature research and mobile interview survey, grasps and analyzes the current development difficulties: (1) Insufficient operating funds; (2) Single service content; (3) Unstable user group; (4) Lack of professional teams and low content quality; (5) The existence of national identity problems; (6) Government policies and systems not open enough. In the conclusion, four opinions and suggestions for sustainable development are given : (1) The necessity of diversified and innovative development; (2) The expansion of the cooperation model; (3) The support of the government; (4) The necessity of concentrating the development of new media. Finally, the insufficiency of this thesis and future research directions are clarified.

John Webb’s An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the Language of the Empire China is the Primitive Language is regarded as the first extensive European treatise on the Chinese language and among the earliest sinological studies. Webb’s argument in Historical Essay is that the Chinese language is the primitive language and Noah in the Genesis is Emperor Yao from the ancient Chinese history. For proof of his hypothesis, he gathered up various intellectual discourses circulating in seventeenth-century England, which inversely allows us to approach the pre-sinological discourses of his time. Through this, we can find to what extent he intervened in the current discourses and deviated from them. Webb enthusiastically responded to the reports from Jesuit missionaries, one of whose main aims were to collect mission fund enough to propagate their religion, which was carried out by first portraying China as an ideal nation to appeal to the Europeans. His idealization of the Chinese language conceals the anxiety of his time as the Europeans first encountered Eastern civilizations in the seventeenth century. We can see the symptoms when Webb wishes to attribute the ideal qualities of China delivered by the Jesuit authors to Noah. While he attempts to prove the primitiveness of the Chinese language, he incorporates Chinese civilization into European discourses by making pious Noah the common ancestor of England and China and by asserting that all the superiorities of Chinese civilization are derived from the figure of Noah in the Genesis.

The emergence of Corona viruses have plunged human society into an unprecedented epidemic disaster, which made the way of communication between countries has changed dramatically. Korean Universities launched a new attempt to implement live streaming Korean language courses (LSKLC) in a purpose of continuing exchanges and cooperation with Chinese Universities. This study noticed that students attend these courses in different ways. In order to investigate whether students' satisfaction is affected by the way of attending the classes, this study was conducted using SPSS 26.0 software and Kruskal-Wallis test method, and the data was extracted from a LSKLC implemented by a Korean University. As results, the satisfaction level of students was high, meanwhile the teaching method satisfaction was the highest, following content setting, and timetable setting, but neither attending way showed any significant difference in course satisfaction.

본 연구는 최근 20년간(2001~2020) 소나무에 관한 주요 연구 주제 및 연구영역 분석을 통한 향후 연구 방향성을 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 Python.3.9.0과 Textom를 활용하여 RISS와 Web of Science의 소나무 관련 총 3866편의 논문 제목과 키워드 데이터를 수집하고 분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, 국가별 총 논문 수는 일본 383편(46.8%), 한국 363편(44.4%), 중국 78편(9.5%)순으로 소나무 자생국가를 중심으로 한 관련 연구들이 활발히 진행되었다. 단어 빈도 및 TF-IDF, N-gram, CONCOR 분석을 통해 국내와 국외에서 소나무 관련 주요 연구 주제는 소나무재 선충으로 나타났으며, 사회 및 경제적 환경, 관련 정책 등 차이에 의해 국내와는 달리 국외에서는 '균근' 관련 연구가 주요 연구 영역으로 도출되었다. 또한 소나무 관련 연구는 일부 인문 사회학적인 연구들이 진행되었지만 주로 생태적인 측면에 집중되어 있는 것으로 나타 났다. 이에 소나무의 인문·사회학적 가치를 고려할 때 향후 연구에서는 이와 관련 후속연구가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

융합, 팬데믹, 혐중국이라는 단어는 우리 사회 뿐 아니라 대학교육 현장에서 쉽게 만나는 단어이다. 4차 산업혁명의 대두와 함께 부각된 융합이라는 개념은 기존 인문 학이 지닌 틀의 변화를 요구한다. 게다가 코로나19로 인한 팬데믹 상황은 대학 내에 서 학문과 교육의 상호작용을 원활하지 못하게 만들었다. 또한 이같은 팬데믹 상황 이 중국으로부터 전파된 코로나 바이러스에 기인한다는 사회적 인식은 혐중국 정서 를 확산시켰고 이는 대학의 중어중문학 교육 및 전공 선호에도 상당한 영향을 미친 다. 이러한 상황 속에서 본 논문에서는 2021년도 2학기 부산대학교 중어중문학과 전 공수업인 중국어문 캡스톤디자인을 중심으로 중국어문학 전공교육의 새로운 방향성 과 그 예시에 대해 고찰한다. 또한 캡스톤디자인의 교육운영과 산출물에 대한 분석 을 통해 융합교육의 실례를 제시하고 나아가 이 수업이 팬데믹 시대 교육소통의 통 로이며 문화콘텐츠를 활용한 혐중국 정서 완화에 효과가 있음을 서술한다.

The purpose of this study is to explore the language attitude of 20s toward genderlect. This study focused on the representation of genderlects in South Korean dramas, and was based on the media reception theory. In the research, 32 men and women aged between 19 to 24 were interviewed in focus groups. The data were analyzed qualitatively. The research results are as follows. First, the participants partially recognized the characteristics of genderlect which were reported in previous studies, and the opinions among the participants hardly agreed. Second, the way which dramas represent genderlect was shown as breaking away from traditional gender roles and the reestablishment of overturned gender roles. Third, this study categorized the positive and negative responses of the participants toward the use of gender language. Fourth, participants’ attitude toward genderlect was gradually arranged from negotiation to opposition. This study is meaningful in that it comprehensively demonstrated the language attitudes of the younger generation. However, there still remains a margin on further research in consideration of non-binary participants and broader contexts.