Kangsub Lee. 1998. Does Grammar Instruction Interact with Learning Style? Studies in Modern Grammar 21, 149-181. This study extended earlier studies regarding the effects of interactive small group tasks as opposed to traditional teacher-fronted grammar lessons. In particular, it investigated the effects of individual learning styles on students` achievement via the two instructional methods. A "Learning Style Profile" adapted from the Learning Style Profile (Keefe & Monk, 1986) was administered to a large group of Korean EFL college students to assess their learning styles and to establish associations between elements of their learning styles and their achievement on the proficiency tests. In particular, students were considered according to the type of formal instruction they received: grammar task group, grammar lesson group, and non-grammar group. The results of this study showed that learning style preferences were able to predict more than 70% of the participants with respect to which instructional method worked best for them. In addition, aptitude by treatment interaction analyses showed that visual learning style is best accommodated by traditional teacher-fronted grammar lessons. In sum, these findings indicate that formal grammar instruction is facilitated when there is a match between the instructional method and the learners` learning style.

Kim Han-kyung. 1998. A Study on the Readability As Learner-Originated Open Teaching Method. Studies in Modern Grammar 14, 365-387. The purpose of this study is to make researches in the readability as a way of open teaching method that is focused on learners, as the current trend of education is changing from supplier-originated education to customer-originated one. The English teaching courses, focused on students, consist of three parts; planning, implementation and evaluation. The phase of planning includes the needs analysis and the goal setting. And the implementation also includes the development of texts and teaching methods. Those are not different from existing English teaching processes. The student-originated curriculum, however, is quite different from traditional curricula in the fact that the former allows the students to participate in the decision-makings on the contents curricula and teaching methods. The student-originated curriculum suggests the teacher and students have prior conferences t negotiate on their curricula. The basic philosophies of English teaching open-method, particularly focused on learners, are to increase students` learning-motives and effectiveness by teaching them the issues and functions they need, and to most effectively use the limited session of class. In this study, corresponding to the concepts above, various teaching methods for reading such as bottom-up processing, top-down processing and interactive processing are further discussed. And some factors, related to more effective readability, and the principal models, including both substantial and formal background informations and the concept of super-recognition, are illustrated.

과학의 본질에서 과학적 지식 뿐 아니라 과학하는 방법이 중요한 것 처럼 지구 과학은 자연계를 이해하고 설명하기 위한 과정과 이 과정의 산물인 지식을 탐구하기 위한 자연 과학이다. 지구 과학의 학문적 성격이 우주 대자연에 대한 규칙성을 찾아내고 그것을 논리적 체계에 맞추어 설명하려고 노력하는 것이라면 지구 과학은 논리적 체계를 이루는 과학적 지식과 그것을 얻어낸 탐구 과정이라는 두가지 면을 가지고 있다. 이러한 탐구 과정이나 활동을 통하여 탐구 능력이 길러지고 이러한 능력은 사물을 올바로 판단하는 태도, 개관적으로 관찰하려는 태도, 실험관찰을 정량화하려는 태도, 타인과 협력하며 기대되는 과학적 태도 등이 함양되는 것이다.