This study aims to analyze the types of cognitive process required to perform vocabulary learning activities in Middle School English textbooks. For this purpose, 26 middle school English textbooks were examined, including 13 for the first year and another 13 for the second year of middle school. The results indicated that vocabulary learning activities emerged in the phase of reading, and then were categorized into pre-reading vocabulary activities and post-reading ones. Eight types of cognitive process emerged in the pre-reading phase and three types in the post-reading phase. That is, the number of vocabulary activities in pre-reading phase was larger than that in the post-reading phase. In addition, the diversity of vocabulary activities in the pre-reading phase was higher than that in the post-reading phase. Based on these results, this study suggests a new model of vocabulary learning activity in middle school English textbooks. A few implications on how to teach new words in English classrooms are discussed.

The paper is devoted to the field work carried out by outstanding psychologist Alexander R. Luria and his team in isolated villages in Uzbekistan and mountain Kyrgyzstan (1931- 1932) and its place in cross-cultural studies. Many people of these places never went out of own villages. That time, in the Western social science racist theories that interpreted the differences in ways of thought in terms of biology were popular. These theories were based on application of "standard intellectual tests" to illiterate peoples in Asia, Africa and Latin America. A. Luria has criticized these "standard intellectual tests", and results of his survey gave strong proof of ties between level of social conditions and peculiarities of mental processes but not between race and mind. Long before the famous Western works on comparative psychology and cultural anthropology (J. S. Bruner, M. Cole, P.M. Greenfield, J. Gay, C. Levi-Strauss, etc.) published in 1950-1970-s, the A. Luria' research expedition has anticipated the main directions and results of future crosscultural studies.

Thi s study investigated, using think-aloud protocol, what L2 learners focus on, notice and uptake in a series of English writing task and how this cognitive process is affected by their English proficiency. Nine Korean middle school students were engaged in a three-stage writing task, which consisted of the compos ing stage, the stage of comparing their own text with a reformulated version, and the revising stage. During the first two stages, the students were asked to think out loud in Korean. The results show that in the composing stage the high level students tended to focus on grammatical forms while the low level groups more concentrated on lexical items. When reformulations were provided, the students well noticed the diffe rences between their original texts and the reformulated ones but a majority of their noticing remained simple noticing without a proper reason or ended up with wrong inferences. Thi s overall shallow and incorrect process at the comparing stage resulted in re latively little changes in the revising stage. These fi ndings suggest that not only the quantity but also the quality of noticing is important for acquisition and more guidance and he lp should be provided for low level learners to benefit from writing and feedback.

본 연구는 과학 영재 프로그램을 개발하고 개선하는데 반영하고자 2002년도 서울 대학교 과학 영재 교육센터에서 운영된 과학 영재 프로그램의 각 주제에 제시된 학습 목표, 과학적 모형, 과학 탐구의 인지 과정을 분석하였다. 교육 목표와 과학적 모형, 탐구 활동의 세 요소들은 과학 교육 과정의 구성에 있어서 중요하다는 판단 아래 각 요소들이 제시된 정도를 파악한 후 이들의 수준이 영재 학생들의 인지적 요구를 충족시키는지에 초점을 두어 분석 결과를 해석하였다. 이에 따라 교육 목표의 인지 영역 중에서 상위 사고력 영역에 해당하는 종합 영역, 과학적 모형 중에서 상위수준의 추상성과 복잡성 모형인 다 개념-과정 모형, 과학 탐구의 인지 과정 중 창의성 영역에 해당하는 실험 설계의 인지 과정이 과학 영재 학생들을 가르치는 데 중요한 항목임을 전제하였다. 분석 결과 서울 대학교 과학 영재 프로그램의 각 주제에 제시된 교육 목표는 상위사고력 영역과 하위사고력 영역이 비슷한 비율로 나타나며, 그 중에서 종합 영역은 낮게 나타났다. 과학적 모형은 다 개념-과정 모형보다는 단일 개념 모형이 많았으며 추상성 수준은 중간 정도였다. 과학 탐구의 인지 과정은 실제 과학 탐구의 인지 과정을 고르게 다루지는 않았다. 특히 실험 설계의 인지 과정은 적게 다루고 있었다. 따라서 분석한 과학 영재 프로그램이 과학 영재들의 인지적 요구를 충족시키기 위해서는 종합 영역의 교육 목표, 다 개념-과정 모형, 실험 설계의 인지 능력을 더 많이 반영해야 한다.