The purpose of this study is to investigate university students’ perceptions on their English conversation classes taught by native English speakers. Its focus is on finding out how well the students understand and how actively they participate in class, what causes difficulty in their understanding or participation in class, and whether their class helps them in terms of affective aspects and English skills. A survey was conducted on a total of 465 university students in Korea, and the collected data were analyzed to compute basic descriptive and inferential statistics. Some of the important findings are 1) over 50% of the students understand their classes well; 2) a little over 30% actively participate in class; 3) about 30~50% of the students perceive their class help them affectively; and 4) about 50% of the students perceive their class help them improve their English skills in general. These results are discussed along with other findings related to the causes of the difficulties that the students experienced. Suggestions are provided on the basis of the results and their implications.

In this study, we investigated protection motivation and behavioral intention to prevent serious illnesses related to excessive sodium intake among the university students in Gyeongnam and Busan. Within the protection motivation theory (PMT) framework, a survey questionnaire was developed to measure participants’ perceptions on the severity of and the vulnerability to the threat of serious diseases due to the high sodium intake as well as the effectiveness of preventive measures (response efficacy), and the ability to perform them (self-efficacy) along with their willingness to follow recommendations (behavioral intention). Data was collected in June 2015. Study participants were divided into either low (n=117) or high (n=177) sodium intake behavior groups based on their current behaviors. Exploratory factor analysis was performed to measure construct validity and Cronbach’s alpha was calculated to check reliability of measurement items. The high sodium intake behavior group perceived higher vulnerability than the low sodium intake behavior group among four PMT factors. Differences of the other three factors were not significant between the two groups. The results of hierarchical regression analysis indicated that self-efficacy and response efficacy affected behavioral intention of high sodium intake behavior among students. Hence, development of strategies to increase self-efficacy and response efficacy are strongly recommended.

大学の日本語教育は、政府からの一定した基準を設けている中․高校 とは違って大学別に行われている。これは、大学ならではの教育ができ るという長所もあれば一定した体裁をなしていない授業も有りうるとい う短所もある。 大学の日本語教育に関する先行研究では教材の分析が多かったと言え るが、本稿ではK大学の日本語教材に載っている文法項目や文型などを調 査するとともに科目間の連係性という面から大学の日本語教育の在り方 について論じたものである。 大学ごとに日本語授業の講座数、担当者数などのやり方は様々である。 このような理由で本研究はK大学に限ったことになるかもしれないが、今 後、多くの大学における日本語教育に関する調査・研究が行われ、大学に おける望ましい日本語教育法が体系化されることを期待する。　

This study was analyzed to provide fundamental data of food safety education way on the recognition, knowledge and purchase attitude of GMO foods. Data was collected from 270 University students in the Gyeong-gi region through a self-administered questionnaire. According to the results of the reliability and factor analysis, the knowledge and purchase attitude of GMO foods showed 0.742 and 0.832 in Cronbach alpha coefficient, 0.791 and 0.831 in KMO. There were significant differences in the recognition and intake possibility and purchase will, safety and absorption to a GMO foods between the specialty person and non-specialist (p<0.05). By the kind of GMO foods it appeared highly by the order corn (70.0%), tomato (67.5%), beans (63.3%) and potato (51.3%). There were significant differences in the general knowledge of GMO foods (p<0.05), whereas no significant differences in question ‘There were no genes in ordinary beans’ by a presence of a specialty (p>0.05). After the purchase attitude difference to the GMO foods was analyzed by a presence of a specialty, I appeared most highly in the question to which I say ‘I think a GMO foods is ethical.’ by a negative question and ‘I think a GMO foods is mass-produced, and it's possible to make a food problem decrease.’ by an affirmative question. Therefore, the purchase attitude of GMO foods showed a significant differences of University students according to their major (p<0.05). Based on this study, it is considered that provision of detailed and continuous education must be accomplished by raising the recognition of GMO foods and its acceptance level, allowing a proper understanding of GMO foods to be conveyed and assisting subjects from receiving the information they desire effectively by various education mediums.

Recently, there has been an increase in wellbeing marketing, which focuses on increasing consumer life satisfaction or consumers’ sense of subjective wellbeing. Numerous studies have been conducted to identify which aspects contribute to consumer life satisfaction. In order to provide additional insights into consumer life satisfaction, this study aimed to identify the relationships among social psychological variables (consciousness of social face, social interaction anxiety, and career anxiety), shopping confidence, and life satisfaction. Shopping confidence in this study relates to confidence for clothing/ accessories. It was hypothesized that social psychological variables influence life satisfaction not only directly but also indirectly through shopping confidence. Data were gathered by surveying university students in Seoul, using convenience sampling. Two hundred eighty six questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. Factor analysis of consciousness of social face revealed two factors, ‘desire to gain face’ and ‘fear of losing face’. Factor analysis of social interaction anxiety, shopping confidence, and life satisfaction revealed that these variables were uni-dimensional. Test of the hypothesized path showed that all social psychological variables influenced life satisfaction indirectly through shopping confidence, whereas ‘fear of losing face’ of consciousness of social face and career anxiety influenced life satisfaction directly. The results give marketers some understanding of their consumers' life satisfaction in relation to consciousness of social face, social interaction anxiety, career anxiety, and shopping confidence.

대학생 시기는 여러 가지로 첫 시작을 위한 중요한 준비 시기라 할 수 있겠다. 이 시기에 있어 감정적 부분은 개인적, 대인관계적, 가치관, 직업적 기초 뿐 아니라 사회적으로도 서로간의 영향을 줄 수 있겠다. 무엇보다 사회복지 서비스를 준비하는 대학생 스스로에 대한 성향과 생각들은 인성과 그 준비에 중요한 관점이라 할 수 있다. 대학생의 시 기는 독립적인 시기의 준비이자 스스로에 있어 여러 다양한 새로운 경험과 문제를 다루는 것을 알게 되는 시기로 이러한 부분에 있어 우울감은 대학생활과 사회적 기초가 되는 이 시기에 학교생활과 대인관계 그리고 일생의 발달과업의 시작인 다양한 사회적 관계의 순간들에 중요한 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 이에 대학생의 자기애성향과 우울 및 자기애 성향과 우울간의 관계를 살펴보았다. 그 결과 자기애성향은 우울에 영향을 미쳤으며, 성별에 따른 우울감 차이로는 정서적 우울, 인지적 우울, 동기적 우울에 있어 남학생보다 여학생이 더 높았다. 자기애성향과 우울간의 관계로는 서로간의 유의미하게 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 자기애성향이 높을수록 우울 경향이 높았다. 자기애성향의 하위 요인들로는 자기중심성이 높을수록 정서적 우울이 높았고, 자기중심성이 강할수록 인지적 우울과 동기적 우울이 높았다. 이에 대학생들의 우울감에 대한 관심 및 대인관계와 학교 생활에 있어 어려움에 대한 보다 다양한 방법으로 다각적인 상담 및 소규모 프로그램들을 통해 현실적인 평가와 자존감 향상을 통한 다양한 상담 및 활동 프로그램이 필요하다고 할 수 있겠다.

In Korea, the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) was introduced in 1993 as the official national college entrance examination. Over the 22 years since its inception, the CSAT has gone through numerous changes in its policies regarding the test structure, test administration, test writers, item bank, item difficulty, test materials, score reporting, and the use of test scores. The present study reviewed these policies and policy changes regarding the CSAT, with a focus on the English section ofthe test. The study found that while some of the policies were laudable for beneficial effects on students and the society, some other policies had detrimental effects on the quality of the test and for stakeholders including students, teachers, and parents. More active involvement of testing professionals is suggested for the improvement of policymaking processes and the policies themselves.

Les apprenants coréens de français langue étrangère ont, en Corée, rarement l'occasion d'utiliser le français en dehors de la salle de classe. Cependant, le développement des outils de Communications Médiatisées par Ordinateurs (CMO) leur fournissent un environnement d'apprentissage plus favorable pour surmonter les contraintes d’isolement et les aident à améliorer leurs capacités à communiquer en français. Notre travail de recherche porte sur l’utilisation de ressources en ligne. Ce parcours est divisé en trois segments selon les stades atteints dans l'apprentissage de la prononciation : la présentation, la pratique, la production (3P). En outre, des questionnaires et des entretiens ont été menés pour mesurer l'utilité perçue de ce site. Sur dix semaines, les principaux résultats de cette étude sont les suivants: la prononciation a d'abord été analysée à travers un pré-test et un post-test par des enregistrements. Les résultats du post-test ont montré une nette amélioration de leur prononciation, en particulier en lecture à haute voix plus qu’en expression libre. Cela souligne la difficulté de parvenir à un usage automatique d’une prononciation apprise consciemment. Ces ressources en ligne ont montré leur utilité dans l'apprentissage des caractéristiques prosodiques. A la lecture des enquêtes, les étudiants reconnaissaient un effet positif en prononciation, pour l'écoute et la prise de parole. Cette amélioration serait due à la possibilité de télé-charger, d’écouter et de répéter des fichiers authentiques, mais aussi aux taches communicatives proposées, qui intégraient des conversations en ligne.

The present study has sought to analyse students’ perceptions and needs of intercultural learning in the level of college. Specifically, it examined how culture is conceived and what has been experienced and needed with regard to cultural or intercultural learning by college students. To this end, 120 students from three colleges located in Gwangju and Jeonnam area were asked to respond to a closed (4 Likert-scale) questionnaire which consists of 19 items. The major findings from the analysis are summarized as follows: (1) The students conceived culture as products rather than practices or perspectives; (2) the respondents experienced learning culture mostly in terms of products and practices as well and they are assessed by traditional test methods; and (3) the students were in favor of the multimodal and intercultural approaches to learning culture, although they have seldom learned the concepts such as intercultural communication, intercultural communicative competence etc. They wanted to learn the multiliteracy such as cultural and critical literacy too. Pedagogical implications and desirable directions of the design for teaching culture are discussed.

The aim of the present study was to examine factors affecting Korean university EFL learners' English reading comprehension across two reading tasks (i.e., literal vs. inferential reading). To this end, five latent factors (linguistic, cognitive, affective, social, and English reading) were targeted, and the structural relationships among these five factors were analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. Results of the present study demonstrate that for literal reading comprehension task, linguistic, cognitive, and social factors made a significant and direct impact on Korean university students' English reading performances, whereas the effect of affective factor was not significant. Regarding the inferential reading task, only linguistic and cognitive factors were significantly and positively associated with Korean university students' English reading comprehension. Implications for pedagogy as well as for future research directions were also provided.

The purpose of this study is to offer raw data on managing naturalized plants by researching the naturalized plants distributed in Gyeongju Campus, Dongguk University. The results are as follows. The numbers of naturalized plants were summarized as 47 taxa; 13 families, 37 genera, 45 species and 2 varieties. In an analysis of life forms, there were 1 taxa of megaphanerophytes, 5 taxa of chamaiphytes, 7 taxa of hemicryptophytes, 1 taxa of geophytes and 33 taxa of therophytes. The following summarizes the attributes of the naturalized plants. Most of the plants commonly originated from North America and Europe. The 5 naturalized degree that was widely distributed and had many individual was the most common. Until 1921, after the opening of 1 period was the most common in the introduced period. There were 4 taxa of invasive alien plants; Rumex acetocella, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Aster pilosus and Lactuca sativa. As regards the management of invasive alien plants, because Rumex acetocella, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Aster pilosus and Lactuca sativa have a negative impact on the ecosystem, they need to be efficiently controlled.

우리나라 대학 및 공공연구소에 투입하는 R&D재원으로 창출되는 논문, 특허 등의 지속적인 증가에도 불구하고 사업화 수준은 선진국에 비해 현저히 낮다. 이에 대학 등 공공 연구기관의 연구성과 제고와 지식 재산역량 강화를 위한 TLO의 역할이 주목받고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 대학들이 재원의 한계 등으로 TLO에 전문 인력의 유치가 어렵고, 지식재산 권 출원 및 등록에 따른 행정적인 단위업무 정도만 수행하며 기술이전 및 출원 등록업무를 외부 기관에 의뢰하여 수행하고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 특허청이 실시하고 있는 특허경영전문가 파 견사업의 평가를 통해서 TLO의 역량과 전문성이 대학의 특허 및 기술이전 성과에 미치는 영향에 대하여 분석하는 것이다. 이공계관련 126개 대학을 선정하여 사업을 지원받은 대학과 그렇지 않은 대학 간의 성과 차이를 비교하였다. 분석 결과 사업을 지원받은 후 경과시간이 오래된 경우 특허 출원 및 등록건수, 기술이전 계약건수에서 긍정적인 영향이 나타나는 것으 로 확인되었다. 이처럼 대학의 기술이전 및 사업화 성과 제고를 위해서는 전문가 확보와 장 기간의 전문성 확보노력이 중요하다고 판단된다.

We are aimed to conduct the survey research to evaluate the university students's awareness pn the care systems of abandoned animals. We deals with the findings obtained from extensive interviews with a representative samples. The objectives of interviews included 546 students in Wonkwang, Keimyung and Chosun University. Questions focused on how students were recognized the need and policies of the care systems of the abandoned animals. Questionnaire and technical data are analysed and summarized. As the results of the survey research, the objectives of interviews had well understood about the policies of adoption of the abandoned animals. Conclusionally, the promotions of adoption of the abandoned animals were need. The effective promotions of the adoption of the abandoned animals will be desirable for the establishment of abandoned animal welfare.

Purpose: This study was tried to identify the effects of problem-based learning integrated with simulation education on the critical thinking disposition, problem-solving process and self-confidence of nursing process in nursing students. Methods: This study was one group pre-post test design, participants are 47 senior nursing students. We developed the simulation practice by applying problem based learning taking 2 hours per session, once per week for 15 weeks. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, paired t-test, Pearson’s correlation coefficients using the SPSS WIN 18.0 program. Result: There was a significant difference simulation practice by applying problem based learning on the critical thinking disposition, problem-solving process and self-confidence of nursing process of nursing students. There was a correlation between each other variables. Conclusion: Therefore, suggest that the repeated studies to verify the effects of simulation practice by applying problem based learning.

최근 대학의 입시전형의 다양화로 인하여 학생들의 학업 역량과 성취 수준에 편차가 점차 커지고 있기 때문에 대학공부를 수행하는 데 필요한 기초학력의 부족 등으로 인하여 대학공부의 부적응한 사례가 점차 증가하고 있다. 본 연구는 학부생이 겪는 학업 문제를 해결하고 자신이 가진 학업 잠재력을 극대 화하여 성공적인 대학공부 수행할 수 있도록 지원하고자 집단 학습상담 프로그램을 개발하였다. 10명의 학생을 대상으로 시범 프로그램을 운영하고, 사전사후 검사를 실시하여 교육적 성과를 분석하였다. 프 로그램 참여자들은 인지적 정의적 영역에서 상대적으로 향상되는 변화를 도출하였다. 본 연구 결과는 집단 학습상담이 학생들의 학업 편차를 해소하고 자기 주도적 학습자로 자신의 학업 역량을 향상시키 는데 효과적임을 확인하였다.

2008년 2학기부터 국내외 대학들은 외국인 교원(International Faculty)을 활발하게 임용하고 있다. 그 결과 대학 내의 외국인 교원의 숫자가 급격하게 증가했고, 이것은 대학의 교수, 학생 그리고 행정직원 들에게 새로운 도전을 창출하고 있다. 국내외 대학의 외국인 교원의 지원체제를 조사한 결과 대학 내의 외국인 교원들에 대한 교육적·행정적 지원이 미흡한 것으로 조사되었다. 또한 현재 A 대학교에 재직 중인 외국인 교원들의 설문 및 심층면접 조사결과에서도 지원의 미흡으로 인해 외국인 교원들이 대학 의 커뮤니티에서 배제되고 언어와 문화의 차이로 인해 대학의 교수들뿐만 아니라 학생들과의 의사소통 에서도 한계를 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 외국인 교원을 대학 커뮤니티에 통합시키고 그 들이 자신들의 역량을 최대한 발휘할 수 있도록 돕기 위한 효율적인 지원방안을 수립하고자 하였다.