The study investigated if teaching summarizing skills could improve the summary skills of Korean EFL university students. This study involved 38 university freshmen in a required English course and were randomly chosen as the control and experimental groups. The experimental group was taught through summarizing rules, while the control group was engaged in other lessons during the intervention period. The students’ summaries were analyzed as to how effectively the participants paraphrased and integrated the main ideas, the major supporting details, and accurate information from source text into their summaries. The results show that a significant instruction effect was observed in the summary writing performance of the experimental group, in identifying main ideas and major details and paraphrasing and integrating ideas, compared to the control group, which showed a significant change between the first and second summaries only on the accuracy measure. The results are also supported by the questionnaire on students’ perceptions of the instruction.

In the era of the 4th industrial revolution, creativity plays a pivotal role in the competitiveness of a country. The importance of creativity education therefore cannot be overemphasized. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of discussion-based English reading and writing activities on Korean high school students' creativity, English writing, and self-assessed creative thinking. The participants were 45 high school students in Seoul, Korea. They were divided into two groups: the discussion-based English reading and writing group (n=24) and the traditional English instruction group (n=21). The experiment was administered during two semesters of the 2017 academic year. The major findings are as follows: First, the experimental group showed significant improvement on the creativity test, especially in the areas of fluency, flexibility, and original thinking. Second, the experimental group outperformed the control group on the writing test. Third, the experimental group showed positive changes in their self-assessed flexible thinking, convergent thinking, and intrinsic motivation. All of these indicate the beneficial effects of the discussion-based English reading and writing activities. Based on the results, some pedagogical suggestions were made for the effective integration of creativity education into the teaching of English as a foreign language.

국내 학문목적 한국어 학습자의 비율이 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 그러나 실질적으로 학문 습득에 필요한 읽기와 쓰기의 중요도에 대한 학습자의 인식수준은 상대적으로 낮다. 그 가운데 특히 한국어 교실 수업에서 이루어지는 쓰기 교수는 문법 항목과 쓰기 전 활동에 치중되어 있어 총체적인 쓰기 학습 방안 마련이 시급하다. 따라서 본고에서는 읽기와 쓰기 학습의 중요성을 환기하고 교실 수업의 한계를 극복하기 위한 자발적인 학습 방안을 마련하고자 다독 후행 활동으로서의 독서일지 쓰기에 주목하였다. 본고는 효과적인 쓰기 학습 방법의 하나로 제안되어 왔던 다독과 다독 후행 활동의 하나인 독서일지 쓰기가 쓰기 능력에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 효과를 검증하고 그 적용 가능성을 모색하는 데에 목적이 있다.