This study examined the effects of learner-initiated noticing through comparison and teacher-initiated noticing through grammar instruction on EFL middle school learners' English writing process and uptake. For the study, 18 second-year middle school students with intermediate-high English proficiency were divided into three groups. After the first writing composition, one group (Group C) underwent a comparison stage, in which they compared their original writings and reformulated versions. Another group (Group I) received reactive grammar instruction on the four most frequent types of grammar errors, while the other group (Group IC) underwent both stages. All three groups revised their original writings in the next stage. To examine the learners' cognitive processes, think-aloud protocols were analyzed. The results showed that Group IC performed better in uptake than the other two groups, while no major differences were found between Groups I and C. This suggests that a mixture of learner-initiated noticing and teacher-initiated noticing influenced the learners' uptake.

This study investigates the effects of working memory capacity (WMC) and the types of vocabulary learning, i.e., explicit vs. implicit, on the acquisition of English multi-word verbs. For this purpose, a total of 60 middle school students, divided into two groups (control and experimental), participated in the study. The participants in the control group were taught multi-word verbs in a traditional and explicit manner, whereas the participants in the experimental group were exposed to multi-word verbs with short passages. The results manifested that both of the instructional styles had positive effects on the learners’ acquisition of multi-word verbs in the short-term. Although there was not a significant interaction between WMC and the overall scores on the immediate post-test, according to the scores on the gap-fill tasks which tested learners’ productive knowledge, there were significant differences between the low-WMC and high-WMC groups. High-WMC students learned more target multi-word verbs than low-WMC students on average. The results also showed that WMC and the two different learning types did not affect the students’ acquisition of multi-word verbs in the long-term. Further, the interaction effect between WMC and learning type in the long-term was not significant.

Shim, Young-sook. 2015. “An analysis of ELF-oriented features in Korean middle school English textbooks”. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 23(3). 147~176. This study examined how ELF-oriented features were incorporated into English textbooks used in Korean middle schools. A total of 213 dialogues and 214 reading texts presented in 21 textbooks were analyzed from the perspective of English as a global language. The analysis of the data revealed the following findings. First, most of the textbook dialogues took place between either English native speakers or an English native speaker and a Korean speaker, with the number of dialogues involving non-Korean ESL or EFL speakers remaining very low. Second, nearly all the audio-recordings of the dialogues and the reading texts presented American English accent regardless of the nationalities and cultural backgrounds of the speakers or narrators in the materials. Lastly, a considerable portion of the reading texts contained topics or situations that can potentially enhance learners' interculturality, though ELF-related issues were rarely addressed in the texts. Based on the findings, this paper suggested some implications for ELF-based English education in Korean context.

이 연구는 텃밭활동을 통해 중학생이 학교폭력에 노출되지 않는 건강한 학교생활을 지원하기 위하여 사회적 자본을 고려한 정서수준과 텃밭활동의 관련성을 파악하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 텃밭활동 여건과 학교폭력 관련 정도에 따라 대구, 수원, 서울 등 3개 지역 4개 학교(일반학교 2, 학업중단 및 학교폭력 관련 특수학교 2)를 대상으로 설문조사를 시행하고 192명의 자료를 분석에 활용하였다. 학생과 가정의 사회적 자본과 지역사회 자본이 학교생활 적응에 영향을 미친다는 선행연구를 토대로 사회적 자본을 고려한 정서수준을 측정하기 위하여 14개 항목으로 구성된 조사도구를 개발하여 활용하였고 조사도구의 신뢰도는 .86으로 신뢰할 만하였다. 또 이에 영향을 미치는 변인은 지역사회 변인, 텃밭 관련 변인, 그리고 개인과 가정의 배경변인으로 구분하였다. 지역과 학교에 따라서는 대구의 특수학교 학생이 수원, 서울지역 일반학교 학생보다 상대적으로 정서수준이 낮았고 학생에 게 관심을 보여주는 이웃여부에 따라서도 영향이 있었다. 현재 학교에서 시행하는 텃밭활동 프로그램에 참여하는 집단은 현재생활에 만족하고 지역사회 자원도 더 신뢰하는 것으로 나타났다. 텃밭활동의 접근성, 텃밭활동에 참여하게 된 계기, 텃밭활동에 기대하는 내용(기대변화)도 정서적 수준에 영향을 미쳤다. 직접 또는 간접적으로 학교폭력을 경험한 경우는 그렇지 않은 경우보다 정서 수준이 낮았다. 외롭고 힘든 일에 대한 대처방법, 현재의 고민, 부모(보호자)의 직업, 학교방문이나 자원봉사활동 참여 등이 정서수준에 영향을 미치는 반면에 성별은 영향을 미치지 않았다. 즉 사회적 자본 관련 변인이 정서수준에 영향을 미치고 텃밭관련 변인들의 유용성을 확인하였다. 이 결과는 학교와 가정과 상호 협력하여 지원할 가능성을 탐색하는 데에도 기초적인 정보를 제공할 수 있으며 앞으로 중학생의 여건과 행동반경을 고려하여 지원할 수 있는 텃밭활동 프로그램을 개발하는 데에도 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

본 연구는 동물매개중재프로그램이 중학생의 정서지능과 사회성에 미치는 영향을 검증하고자 하였다. 연구대상은 서울특별시 A구 B소재의 중학교에서 방과 후 교육을 이용하는 학생 중에 동물에 관심이 있는 남학생들로 프로그램연구에 동의하는 8명을 선정하였다. 동물매개중재프로그램은 주 2회 45분씩 6주간 총 12회기를 실시하였으며 프로그램계획 및 운영은 동물매개심리상담사 1급자격증을 취득한 본 연구자와 보조 진행자로 한국동물 매개심리치료학회 소속 동물매개심리상담전문가 1인과 펫파트너로 동물매개심리치료학 전공 4학기생과 동물매개심리상담사 2급자격증을 가진 2인이 반려견 2두와 함께 참여하였다. 치료도우미견을 활용한 동물매개중재프로그램의 효과성을 측정하기 위해 사용한 검사도구는 정서지능 척도검사, 사회성 척도검사이며 비모수적 통계분석 (non-parametrictest)방법인 윌콕슨 부호순위검증(Wilcoxon's signed ranks test)을 통 해 사전검사와 사후검사간의 점수 차이를 분석하였다. 본 연구결과 동물매개중재 프로그 램이 중학생의 정서지능과 사회성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 먼저 정서지능에서 정서인식 및 표현, 감정이입, 정서·사고촉진, 정서활용 그리고 정서조절에서 유의한 차이 가 나타났고, 사회성에서는 신뢰성, 자율성, 사교성 그리고 준법성에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 특히 정서조절과 사교성에서 다소 높은 효과를 나타내었다. 이는 동물매개중재의 차별화된 장점의 결과로 보인다. 따라서 동물매개중재프로그램은 중학생의 정서지능과 사 회성 향상에 효과가 있다는 연구결과의 의의가 있다.

본 연구는 2009 개정 수학 교과서가 이전의 2007 개정 수학 교과서와 비교하여 스토리텔링의 요소가 어떻게 얼마나 반영되었는지를 분석하는 것을 목표로, 2007 개정 교육과정에 따른 두 출판사의 교과서 와 익힘책을 동일한 출판사의 2009 개정 교육과정에 따른 교과서와의 문항을 비교 분석하였다. 구체적 으로 두 교과서는 전체적인 교과서 구조 측면에서, 그리고 실생활연계, 수학적 흥미, 창의성과 의사소통 이라는 세가지 스토리텔링형 유형 측면에서 분석되었다. 연구 분석 결과, 새로 개정된 2009 A와 2009 B에서 다음과 같은 공통적인 특징을 발견할 수 있다. 첫 째, 스토리텔링을 반영한 전체적인 문제의 수나 스토리텔링적 요소에서는 2009 개정 교과서와 이전 교 과서간에 큰 차이가 발견되지 않았다. 둘째, 2009 개정 교과서는 학생들의 참여를 유도하는 활동이 증 가하였다. 셋째, 2009 개정 교과서는 자기주도적 학습의 요소가 증가하였다. 이상에서 분석한 결과를 토대로, 2009 개정 교육과정과 「수학 교육 선진화 방안」이 추구하는 스토리 텔링이 잘 구현된 수학 교과서 개발을 위해 첫째, 개정 교육과정에서 강조하는 스토리텔링이 무엇인지, 현재의 교과서가 어떤 점에서 변화되었는지를 명확히 한 후 이에 대한 연수가 필요하며 둘째, 수학 교 과 내용과 일상생활과의 연계를 위한 다양한 소재를 발굴할 필요가 있으며 셋째, 이야기적 요소를 보충 하고 넷째, 다양한 활동을 이끌고 다섯째, 공학적 도구를 다양하게 사용하는 기회가 주어져야 함을 제 안하였다.

이 연구의 목적은 중학교 천문 수업에 대한 과학 교사의 교수 실행에서 나타나는 시스템 사고를 분석하는 것이 다. 이를 위해 4명의 중학교 8학년 과학 교사의 천문 단원 수업을 녹화하였고 녹화된 수업은 모두 전사하였으며, 선행 연구의 시스템 사고 위계 구조를 수정하여 개발한 시스템 사고 분석틀을 적용하여 이들을 분석하였다. 또한, 수업 분석 후 참여 교사의 과학 수업에 대한 지향과 교수학적 생각을 심층적으로 분석하기 위해 비디오 자극 회상 면담을 실시하 였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다: 모든 참여 교사들은 천문 수업에서 시스템 사고의 위계를 제대로 반영하지 못하였으며, 낮은 수준의 시스템 사고만을 활용하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 교사가 학생 중심의 교수 지향을 지녔다 하더라도 시스 템 사고의 교수 실행은 교사 중심으로 진행되는 것으로 나타났다. 천문 수업의 교수 실행에서 시스템 사고가 부족하게 나타나는 것은 공간적 사고에 보다 집중하는 것과 지구과학 비전공 교사로서의 천문 내용 및 형성 평가 지식 부족 때 문인 것으로 판단된다. 이러한 연구 결과를 바탕으로 천문 수업에서 효과적인 시스템 사고의 도입 방안을 논의하였다.

With an effort to verify the involvement load hypothesis, this study investigates the effects of three different vocabulary learning tasks - reading, filling in blanks, and sentence writing - on learners' short and long term memory when they are provided with the theoretically identical level of involvement tasks. It is also to examine whether there are any differences of learning effects between input and output vocabulary learning tasks. The experiments were conducted with 86 Korean middle school students grouped by three different task types. Pre-/post-tests and delayed tests were administered and analyzed. It was found that three vocabulary tasks with theoretically identical levels of involvement do not have the same learning effects: the involvement load hypothesis was not completely proved in the case of Korean students' vocabulary learning. The findings implied that (i) the difference of vocabulary learning tasks should be considered even though they have the same involvement load; (ii) given that EFL students learn new words in a limited amount of time in class, the reading task using a dictionary is found to be very helpful; and (iii) it is important to study target vocabulary repeatedly during class and to expose the vocabulary with different tasks to enhance students' retention of the newly learned vocabulary.

This study was conducted to provide desirable way on the eating of sugar foods, specifically the differences between dietary attitude, dietary behaviors and intake frequency. Data was collected from 279 middle students in the Incheon region through a self-administered questionnaire. According to the results of the reliability and factor analysis, the dietary attitude, dietary behaviors and intake frequency was 3.52, 2.89 and 2.51, with a Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.867, 0.789, 0.940 and KMO of 0.899. Factor analysis extracted three components of the sugar preference, which we named dietary attitude (factor 1), dietary behaviors (factor 2), and intake frequency (factor 3). The dietary attitude and dietary behaviors showed a significant difference between sugar preference and non-preference (p<0.05). Also, intake frequency of sugar food showed a significant differences in chocolate, chocolate products, and ice cream between sugar preference and non-preference (p<0.05), whereas no significant differences were found in cake, bread kinds, juice, sweetness milk, yogurt between sugar preference and non-preference (p>0.05). A significant positive result of intake frequency of sugar food (p<0.05) was shown for the dietary attitude, BMI, weight, and monthly pocket money. Based on this study, the reduction of sugar intake is needed especially for middle students

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of two different types of vocabulary activities on Korean EFL learners’ vocabulary learning and perceptions. The participants of the study were 30 Korean middle school students in Seoul, and they were divided into two groups (typography and web-based authoring). The former employed the word meaning and spelling image association technique and the latter used a multimedia vocabulary authoring tool for 42 target words. The major findings of the study are as follows: (1) Both the typography and the web-based vocabulary authoring groups showed significant improvement on the posttest of vocabulary test, which indicated the equal effectiveness of the two vocabulary activities; (2) with respect to different English proficiency levels, the low-level group showed much higher improvement of the mean difference between pre and post tests than the higher group; and (3) the participants’ perceptions turned out to be more positive when they participated in creating English word spelling image than authoring multimedia vocabulary learning materials. The results suggest the beneficial effects of active student involvement in the vocabulary learning process. Pedagogical and practical suggestions are made on the effective teaching of English vocabulary in Korean classroom settings.

Smart Education strives to become one of the goals of current Korean education, and is a prominent core keyword. A major consideration for smart content for science education is creating self-directed, interesting content that considers user level and aptitude. The present paper will examine the development of interactive edutainment content, which meets the education goals of elementary and middle school curriculums. Among various scientific experiments found in both elementary and middle school curriculums, a physics experiment dealing with the law of levers was chosen for investigation. Through this prototype application that meets the standards of current elementary and middle school curriculums, new possibilities of scientific experiments may be uncovered for the smart education age.

Recently, the computer software has become an increasingly important share in the overall industry and many countries have been adapted an early SW education as their mandatory curriculum in school for children. Most of the prior SW education curriculums had been focused on how to learn a programming language to make a SW in a computer, but current SW education goal has been moved onto training the computational thinking to solve various problems with the computer, effectively. The paper exploits a game design activity as a good and fun tool to training such computational thinking for children. The proposed game design activity consists of a series of systematic curriculums to design a creative game in offline for the children who do not have any prior-knowledge of game. Participants first understand game elements such game title, synopsis, rules, game-play, which are indispensable to make a game. Then they try to understand what the fun is in the game and discuss with how to make such fun in the game. Finally, they have proposed a creative game design which is motivated by playing board-style games and iPad-games. With our assessment of the proposed activity, our game activity derives let the participants to computational thinking while creating the synopsis and game rules to define the game. It also revealed increased interest and understanding of computer software. We expect that the proposed game design activity could be an alternative to train computational thinking and a more holistic program to have increased interest and understanding of computer software for children.

The purpose of this study is to figure out current situation of safety education to improve safety awareness and practice in Korean school students. In order to do this, it is necessary to identify the current level of safety awareness and practice with the actual status of accident occurrence. Furthermore it is try to figure out the most influencing factors on the safety education for Korean middle and high school students. The 412 students were taken from a random sample. The samples were one class of 2nd grade students in five different middle schools and four different high schools in Seoul, Korea. The survey was conducted from 29 September 2010 through 15 October 2010. An additional samples for the questionnaires posted in web were collected. The 305 respondents from school students and 80 respondents from web survey were used to analyze for this study out of 800 respondents. SPSS was used to analyze the questionnaires. The overall safety-awareness score was relatively high at 4.56/5 for fire safety and 4.32/5 for traffic safety. Safety awareness was higher for girls than boys and also for high school students than middle school students. Safety education by parents at home gives a good impact on high safety practices. Safety awareness was improved by feeling of necessity for safety training. The safety prevention training provided during the class by teacher and home training by parents improved safety practice. The correct direction of safety education for younger students can be easier in future.

The present study sought to examine the continuity of the English textbooks of the elementary school 6th grade and the middle school 1st grade by analyzing the readability and vocabulary difficulty of their reading passages. It investigated the continuity between textbooks of the two grades and among chapters of each textbook. For the analysis, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Index was used to measure the readability of reading passages, whereas vocabulary difficulty was measured in terms of TTR (type-token ratio) and frequency by using VocabProfile. The results showed that the readability of middle school textbooks was one point higher than that of elementary school textbooks. Given that the readability index is based on the American school system, the increase in readability index between grades can be seen as large gap. In terms of vocabulary difficulty, the total amount of vocabulary in the middle school textbooks was three times as much as that of the elementary school textbooks. Second, readability index fluctuated across the chapters of each textbook, while the TTR was found to be higher in the former chapters than in the latter chapters in elementary school textbooks. All these could lead to learning difficulties for students. Pedagogical implications are discussed.

This study was analyzed to provide fundamental data on the relationship between fast food consumption behaviors and food-related lifestyle types. Data was collected from 268 middle students in the Incheon region through a self-administered questionnaire. A factor analysis extracted five comprising food-related lifestyle, which we named health seeking (factor 1), taste seeking (factor 2), easy seeking (factor 3), popularity seeking (factor 4) and safety seeking (factor 5). According to the results of the factor analysis, the food-related lifestyle showed that the average consumption was more than 2.95 and, 0.792 in Cronbach alpha coefficient. There were significant differences in the influence factor for the selection of fast food according to taste seeking and, popularity seeking types (p<0.05). Also, the easy seeking and safety seeking lifestyle types showed a significant differences for the reason the choosing criteria of fast food (p<0.05). Especially, the nutrition problem was of the highest importance for the health and safety seeking but an advertisement effect trend appealed more to the taste seeking, easy seeking and popularity seeking lifestyles. There were significant differences in fast food of intake frequency according to health seeking, easy seeking, popularity seeking and safety seeking types (p<0.05). A significant positive result of the internal characteristics of fast food consumption (p<0.05) was shown for the health seeking and safety seeking types. A significant positive result of the external characteristics of fast food consumption (p<0.05) was shown for the popularity seeking and safety seeking types.

This study investigates whether model dialogues in currently available middle school English textbooks present appropriate pragmatic input in the realization of speech acts or communicative functions with a focus on the authenticity of the textbook dialogues. To attain this purpose, a total of 18 textbooks were scrutinized in terms of communicative functions. The results showed that many of the textbook dialogues are devoid of adequate treatment of speech acts or communicative functions. The poor representation was evident in a wide array of communicative functions such as requesting/favor-asking, thanking, inviting, encouraging, complaining, responding to complaints, expressing sympathy, expressing surprise, refusing and responding to refusals. The misrepresented functions were largely due to the lack of sensitivity to situational constraints, interlocutor variables, and/or formality. Some cases were ascribed to pragmatic transfer from the native language. This study will contribute to the improvement of the currently available textbooks so that they can provide authentic speech act input.

The purposes of this study were to investigate the eating of breakfast by female middle school students in Seoul, the perception of the school breakfast program (SBP), and determine the factors affecting the intention to participate in SBP. Out of 340 questionnaires distributed to the female middle school students, 334 were returned (98.2% response rate) and 323 were analyzed. The subjects were categorized into two groups by the intention to participate in SBP. Subjects were classified as participating and non participating groups. As a result of analyzing the breakfast intake frequency, 'hardly eat' showed the highest with 18.5% in the participating group and 10.3% in non participating group, while 'eat every day' showed 38.2% in the participating group, and the highest with 65.5% in non participating group (p<0.001). For the reason for skipping breakfast, 'no time' showed the highest with 30.0% in the participating group, 'over sleep' and 'no appetite' showed the highest with 24.8% in non participating group. For the reason for not participating in SBP, 'breakfast should be eaten at home' showed the highest with 47.2% in non participating group and 'may get up early in the morning' showed the highest with 46.2% in participating group (p<0.01). To determine the factors affecting the intention to participate in SBP, logistic regression analyses were conducted for female middle school students. According to the logistic regression analysis, father's education level was independently associated with the intention to participate in SBP in female middle school students [Odds Ratios (OR) 2.38, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) 1.03~5.52]. Frequency of eating breakfast on weekdays (OR 1.36, 95% CI 1.01~1.81), Level of need for school breakfast (OR 0.52, 95% CI 0.35~0.76) and whether to approve school breakfast (OR 0.27, 95% CI 0.18~0.41) were independently associated with the intention to participate in SBP in female middle school students. In conclusion, proper educational efforts for importance of school breakfast could be useful plan to develop school breakfast program.

The purpose of this study was to analyze middle students' carbonated beverages selection and consumption behaviors depending on their food-related lifestyle. Data was collected from 307 middle students in Incheon region through a self-administered questionnaire. According to the results of the factor analysis, food-related lifestyle showed that the average is more than 3.0, 0.800 in Cronbach alpha coefficient. There were significant differences in carbonated beverages preference according to health seeking, easy seeking, popularity seeking, and safety seeking type (p<0.05). Also easy seeking and popularity seeking type lifestyle showed significant differences in the reason to drink carbonated drinks (p<0.05), especially school canteen amenities tended to pursue the highest fashion. A significant significance positive result of the consumption of carbonated beverages (p<0.01) was shown for the easy seeking type. A significant positive result of the consumption of carbonated beverages (p<0.01) was shown for the taste seeking and safety seeking type. Analysis of the relationship between carbonated beverage consumption, and form factor showed a high correlation coefficient of 0.617 and with brand design, while the taste and the price were (p<0.05) 0.446, and 0.437 in order to design and calories, respectively.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between eating habits and health among adolescents in Shanghai and Heze, China. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 on 2,089 adolescents; 1,089 students were from Shanghai and 999 students from Heze region. Eating habits, weight, height, and nutritional knowledge were assessed using a self-administered questionnaire. Eating habits score was classified into two categories: healthy eating habits and unhealthy eating habits, based on「Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey」, for statistical data analysis. Associations between eating habits, BMI, and nutritional knowledge were examined using a general linear model with adjustment of potential confounding factors such as region, gender, age, parents’ education level, and pocket money. Statistical analyses were performed using the SAS (version 9.3) program. Proportions of healthy eating habits group were 90.0% for breakfast (3-7 times/wk), 29.1% for fruit (≥once/d), 12.5% for vegetable (≥3 times/d), 7.3% for milk (≥2 times/d), 90.0% for fast food (<3 times/wk) consumption, respectively. The average BMI score was 20.1 (Shanghai 20.5 Heze 19.6), which is in the range of normal weight. Rates of obesity and overweight were 16.5% and 8.3% in Shanghai and Heze, respectively. There were significant negative correlations between intake frequencies of breakfast, fast food, biscuits, sugar, chocolate, and BMI score. Eating habits and nutritional knowledge score showed a significant positive correlation. These results showed better eating habits regarding eating regularity and consumption of fruits and soft drinks in Chinese adolescents compared with Korean adolescents, although cultural differences were not fully considered. This study demonstrated significant associations of BMI and nutritional knowledge with dietary behavior in Chinese adolescents in two regions of China. Further studies on Chinese adolescents from other regions in China should be considered.