This study investigated the effects of different gloss locations in extensive reading readers on English reading abilities of elementary students. It examined four groups of sixth graders in an elementary school and an extensive reading class was conducted over sixteen weeks. The four groups were given graded readers with four different types of glosses, such as non-gloss, marginal gloss, footnote gloss, and endnote gloss. To verify the effects of this experiment, pre- and post-reading ability test for the cognitive domain and pre- and post-questionnaire for the affective domain were administered to see if there were any achievement in reading ability and affective domain. The findings were as follows: (1) The four groups showed improvement in the reading ability tests. This result indicates that extensive reading was effective in improving students' reading ability; (2) The footnote gloss group showed the greatest change. This result indicates that footnote glosses influenced the most in improving students' reading ability; (3) All the groups showed positive results in the affective domain including attitude, self-confidence, interest, expectation, and value. In conclusion, extensive reading made a positive effect on all four groups and footnote glosses proved to be the most effective in both cognitive and affective domain.

The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent Korean college students can acquire vocabulary from reading course materials. The participants were 32 college students who enrolled in a TEFL methodology course. A vocabulary test was administered at the beginning and the end of the course, and the results showed that the participants were able to recognize meanings of an average of 3.6 new words, suggesting that small but significant amounts of incidental vocabulary learning can occur as a result of reading course materials. The findings also showed that there was a statistically significant relationship between the number of times each word occurred and its relative learning gain. The results of this study suggests that incidental vocabulary learning is possible from reading even though the amount of such learning is not large. Implications for vocabulary learning and teaching are discussed.

The course is composed of the teacher, the student and the teaching materials. But the function of supplementary readers as teaching materials for German literature has been not widely discussed and approved in Korea. In the first part of my paper 1 wiU describe existing supplementary readers which are almost the annotated readers. In the second part 1 will explain to three aspects for the production of the supplementary readers in the foreign language class. 1) The aspect of literature: it is important for the students to do experience the literary forms which are various and original. 2) The aspect of language: words and sentence structures must be neither excessively easy nor excessively difficult. 3) The aspect of reading process: the understanding process of literary texts should be more effectively used. The present paper attempts to convey the aesthetic and pedagogical values of supplementary readers in the foreign language class.

본고에서는 읽기 능력 신장을 위해서는 체계적이고 실제적인 전략중심의 읽기 교육이 실시되어야 한다는 점에서, 전략 중심 한국어 읽기 교재개발 방향과 단원 구성을 살펴보았다. 먼저 학문 목적의 한국어 읽기 교재를 대상으로 읽기 전략의 교수-학습 내용과 방법적 측면에 대해 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 읽기 과정에 따른 특정 전략만이 반복적으로 나타났으며, 다수의 교재가 전략을 학습 활동에서 암시적으로 사용하도록 하였다. 읽기 전략을 명시적으로 제시한 교재에서는 전략을 적용 연습하는 기회가 충분하지 않았고, 전략의 조건적 지식, 절차적 지식 등이 드러나지 않았다. 따라서 본고에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 방안으로, 다양한 읽기 전략의 교수-학습 내용이 마련되어야 하며, 읽기 전략은 반드시 명시적으로 교수-학습되어야 함을 제안하였다. 또한 명시적으로 제시된 읽기 전략은 충분한 연습을 통해 내재화할 것을 제안하였다. 그리고 교재에서 제공하는 읽기 활동은 읽기 전략 사용을 지향하는 것이어야 함도 제안하였다.