This study develops and validates an English communicative competence model for Korean high school students, in response to the need to redefine the relevant concepts and components of competence that are demanded by the rapidly evolving future society. Drawing on Celce-Murcia’s (2008) theoretical model on communicative competence, this research conceptualized a model that could assess high school students’ English communicative competence by examining relevant domestic and international studies as well as theoretical reflections. Expert opinions from a two-stage Delphi survey were compiled and incorporated to revise, supplement, and validate the English communicative competence among high school students reflecting Korea’s English education environment. Following this process, the conceptual model for English communicative competence was reorganized into five sub-competences (sociolinguistic, discourse, linguistic, interactional, and strategic competence) and 15 corresponding subfactors. The content validity ratio values for the conceptual definition and factor structure of this model were all above 0.64, thus affirming the validity of the conceptual definition and factor structure.

The advent of CLT in the 1980s led to the CLT-SLA debate which continued unabated for the last forty years. This paper asks, Does the now dominant Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) promote Second Language Acquisition (SLA)? In addressing this question, the paper first reviews and explains the social academic history of CLT; different versions of CLT (strong, weak); how CLT operates; its relationship to SLA, such as perceptions of SLA that have contributed to the development of CLT pedagogy (communicative competence, input, output, interaction hypothesis); and techniques used in CLT. Next, it deliberates on the most controversial issues of the CLT-SLA debate, including language forms, corrective feedback, teachers' perceptions of and approaches to CLT, and classroom conditions, followed by a discussion of the ease/difficulty of implementing CLT. It concludes with a discussion of how teachers can best practice CLT in their classrooms.

Korean Chinese international trade correspondence belongs to the teaching field of "Special purpose language". It takes various communicative contexts as the premise, and the communicative context is based on the communicative process under the specific working environment of language users. Therefore, it needs appropriate communicative functions to achieve the communicative purpose. In order to achieve the communicative function, the use of specific sentence types obviously contains some convention. The characteristics of high-frequency sentence types in international trade letters have a certain tendency. This paper takes the Chinese E-mail actually generated by the Korean staff of a Korean trading company in their trade with China as the research object, investigates and analyzes its sentence function, and provides empirical data for business Chinese teaching. Compared with the teaching of traditional lingua franca, according to the various social attributes of Korean Chinese international trade exchanges, it is not only the cognitive background of learners and staff, but also the communicative context required by professional work. The core content of teaching should give priority to the specific sentence patterns of communicative function words closely related to work in the actual corpus, and apply them in teaching strategies and methods, To enable learners to acquire the required language communicative competence as soon as possible, it does not emphasize the comprehensive mastery of learning, but can save time and selectively improve communication efficiency.

이 논문은 민주주의와 시민의 성장 간의 관계를 규명한다. 특히 이 논문은 아이리스 영(Iris Young)의 소통적 민주주의(communicative democracy)에 주목한다. 영에 의하면, 소통적 민주주의란 공적 의사결정과 소통과정에서 사회적 약자의 시각이 배제되지 않는 민주주의다. 이 논문은 소통적 민주주의의 관점에서 민주적 소통이 사회적으로 배제된 시민의 성장에 어떤 영향을 미치는지에 대해 밝혀보고자 하며, 사례로서 세월호 운동을 통해 민주적 소통방식이 세월호 운동 참여자들의 성장을 어떻게 견인했는지 살펴보도록 하겠다. 이를 통해 이 논문은 선거민주주의 혹은 제도권 중심의 엘리트 민주주의를 넘어, 민주적 주체와 그 소통방식에 대한 확장된 이해를 가능하게 함으로써, 보다 정의롭고 실질적인 민주주의의 이론정립에 궁극적으로 기여하고자 한다. 결국, 기존의 민주주의는 주기적인 선거 중심으로 정치적 소통과 의사결정 방식에 대해 이해하는 데 그쳤지만, 이 논문은 선거 중심의 협소한 이해에서 벗어나 민주적 소통과 시민적 성장의 의미를 확장하는데 기여하고자 한다.

The purpose of this study is to explore inter-grade dividing criteria of the 2015 grade group elementary English textbooks. Elementary English textbooks consist of two grade groups: the 3rd and 4th grade group and the 5th and 6th grade group. L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer(L2SCA) is utilized to investigate the dividing criteria of the communicative functions implemented in these textbooks. Subjects of the analysis were the listening dialogues for their structural sequencing of 3rd to 4th graders and 5th to 6th graders separately within their own grade groups. Data were processed and analyzed using SPSS 25.0 and independent sample t tests for inter-grade textbooks for 14 L2SCA statistical indices. The findings are: 6 indices out of the 14 L2SCA statistical indices turn out to be critical for dividing the 2015 grade group elementary English textbooks. The 6 indices are mean clause length, mean sentence length, mean t-unit length, mean complex noun phrasal number per phrase and per t-unit and mean number of verb phrases per t-unit. Based on the findings, it is suggested that a standardized criteria derived from these 6 indices can be provided as an inter-grade dividing criteria of the 2015 grade group elementary English textbooks.

This study analyses the communicative functions of listening scripts extracted from the 2015 elementary school English 6 and middle school English 1 textbooks in terms of continuity. Auditory data corpora were drawn from all five elementary school English textbooks and five most widely used middle school English textbooks. Each sentence of listening scripts was manually tagged based on the classification of communication functions presented in the 2015 Revised National Curriculum. The corpora were analyzed using 14 syntactic complexity measures with the L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (Lu, 2010). The findings of this study show that the continuity between the elementary school English 6 and the middle school English 1 textbooks is relatively well-organized. However, concerning the sequence, the elementary school English 6 was found to be more complex than the middle school English 1 in terms of syntactic complexity. It is suggested that future textbook development should correct the reversed complexity in listening scripts found in this study.

본 연구는 간호 대학생을 대상으로 시나리오를 통한 건강사정 실습교육이 의사소통 능력, 비판적 사고 성향 및 학업성취에 미치는 효과를 보기 위한 비동등성 대조군 사전-사후 설계의 유사실험 연구이다. C북도 G군 소재 J대학교와 G도 P시 소재 P대학교에서 건강사정 교과목을 수강하는 간호학과 2학년 학생을 대상으로 실험군 35명, 대조군 34명에게 각각 시나리오를 통한 실습교육과 전통적 실습교육 수행 전ㆍ후로 자료를 수집하였다. 연구결과, 시나리오를 통한 건강사정 실습교육을 받은 실험군이 전통적 실습 교육을 받은 대조군보다 의사소통 능력(t=2,797, p=.007), 비판적 사고 성향(t=2,406, p=.019), 정보수집능력(t=2,977, p=.004), 문제인식능력(t=3.584, p=.001)이 통계적으로 유의미하게 높아졌다. 그러므로 간호 학생들의 의사소통 능력, 비판적 사고 성향, 정보수집능력 및 문제인식능력 향상을 위해 건강사정 수업 시 시나리오를 통한 실습교육프로그램을 활용할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

Intelligibility of second language (L2) English has become an important goal in English pronunciation teaching. However, intelligibility research primarily focused on L2 English users and L2 production features; only a handful of studies have examined other effects on the intelligibility of L2 English. In line with the three-part model of intelligibility (Munro, 2008), this study focuses on listener factors by examining how listener experience with Thai English affects the actual understanding of Thai English utterances. Study participants were 40 students at a U. S. university. Data were collected through a questionnaire and a 38-item intelligibility test. While controlling for participants’ English proficiency, Analysis of Covariance confirmed that participants with experience in Thai English outperformed those with no experience in Thai English, as measured by the Thai English intelligibility task. The findings suggest that listeners’ communicative experiences in an L2 English variety improves the intelligibility of that English variety regardless of the listeners’ first languages. Implications for research and pronunciation pedagogy are discussed.

The present study examines the features of communicative functions in middle school English textbooks, identifying whether or not they are presented based on the spiral structure. It also compares the communicative functions of 15 different middle school English textbooks and investigates whether the National English Listening Tests (NELTs) reflect the communicative functions presented in the textbooks. Two corpora were compiled using the 15 middle school English textbooks and the NELTs, and they were analyzed using WordSmith Tools. The results show that all the textbooks included communicative functions that the National Curriculum recommends; however, the textbooks presented a limited number of functions. Nonetheless, the communicative functions were presented relatively in a spiral way. The majority number of communicative functions in the textbooks and the NELTs were similar to each other, but there were some functions in the tests that were not covered in the textbooks. These results imply that more diverse communicative functions should be included in textbooks in order to help improve students’ communicative competence. The communicative functions not presented in the textbooks should not be included in the NELTs.

M. M. 토마스의 신학방법론은 신학발전과정에서 세 가지 관점으 로 나타난다. 비록 그의 신학발전의 각 단계 사이의 명확한 경계를 구분하는 것이 어려울 지라도, 그것은 그의 적합한 신학적인 틀을 형성하고 있다. 토마스의 방법론적 접근은 그의 신학이 인류학적 접근 에 근거하고 있다. 그는 기독교 신앙이 효과적으로 전달될 수 있기 위해서 도전적인 관계와의 접촉점을 찾는다. 우선 그의 방법론은 인류 학과 벌코프 관점의 소통에서 나타난다. 토마스는 기독교 신앙과 간디 주의와 마르크스주의의 두 이데올로기의 소통을 통하여 남아있는 문제 를 풀고자 애쓴다. 신학과 이데올로기 사이의 소통은 그의 예비적인 필요조건인식에서 나온다. 그는 간디주의와의 소통에서 비폭력의 원칙 은 육체의 힘으로 이해된 힘의 실재에 대한 간디의 근본적인 접근이었 다. 그는 간디의 도덕에 문제가 있다는 것을 알았기 때문에, 그는 마르크스주의의 인식을 사회의 분석을 위한 더 나은 도구로 판단하고, 인도 사회에서 급격한 변화에 영향을 주는 수단으로서 발전시켰다. 사회 현실에 대한 깊은 연구가 그로 하여금 마르크스주의와의 소통을 이루도록 도왔다. 나중에, 종교를 소외의 형태로 이해하는 마르크스주 의적 신학이 종교를 불신앙의 형태로 본 것과 달리 후기 크래머와 결합되었다.

The goal of the present study is to examine EFL English teachers' intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and its relation to their English language proficiency (LP). Data was collected from 81 in-service and pre-service Korean English teachers (N=81) who participated in an one-month overseas training program in the U.S.A. The participants were asked to diagnose their own levels of ICC and LP through the questionnaires whose reliability and validity were confirmed by the factor analysis. The major findings from analyses were as follows: 1) in general, participants appeared to consider themselves possessing a high level of ICC, showing an average score of 3.99 out of 5.0 on the ICC questions, 2) participants' willingness and readiness to engage in different cultures/speakers were found to be in a higher level than the other four factors of ICC, such as an ability to interact in intercultural situations, an ability to identify an importance of ICC, a degree of acceptance by other cultures/speakers, and a degree of contribution to mediating intercultural situations, and 3) chi-square, correlational, and regression analyses showed significant associations between ICC and LP of the participants. Pedagogical implications and suggestions are discussed.

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.

Choi, Jin-sook. 2014. Communicative-Symbolic Language shift Link. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22(2), 135-156. This study sets out to investigate whether communicative language shift to English is associated with symbolic language shift from Korean mother tongue. In order to investigate the issue, the length of stay and English proficiency level were used as variables of communicative language shift to English, and the symbolic language shift from Korean was measured by attitudes towards Korean and English in this study. Eighty two Korean-Australian secondary school students whose mother tongue was Korean participated in the questionnaire survey. As a result, the length of stay in Australia turned out to be an important factor in explaining the symbolic language shift from Korean: the participants' attitudes towards Korean were more negative and their perception of Korean language was weaker, as the stay length was longer. English proficiency also seemed to work as a factor that affects symbolic language shift from Korean: the higher degree of English proficiency the participants had, the weaker the perception of their mother tongue was. Therefore, this study suggests that communicative language shift to English and symbolic language shift from mother tongue cannot be separated; the two language shifts are closely related each other. (189)

열린 공동체 성장 프로그램은 창의와 인성에 바탕을 둔 학급 운영을 위한 방법론이다. 본 연구는 변화하고 있는 사회적 흐름과 학생들의 정서적 특성을 반영한 학급 운영 프로그램을 통해 창의와 협력, 그리고 소통의 가치관을 길러주고 학생들이 중심이 되는 학급 문화에 대한 인식을 제고하는 데 목적이 있다. 협력적 소양을 함양시키기 위해서 학급 협력 신문의 개념을 도입하여 학생들이 학급 운영 전반에 대한 정보에 대해 수집부터 공유까지 직접 참여할 수 있는 기회를 제공하였다. 창의적 소양을 기르기 위해서 사이버 학급을 체계적으로 설계하여 학생들이 실시간으로 접속하여 그 내용을 재구성하고 정보를 쌍방향으로 처리할 수 있는 여건을 만들었다. 소통의 중요성을 인식시키기 위해서 학습 컨설팅 일지를 구안하여 적용하였다. 학생들은 학습 컨설팅 일지를 활용하여 담임교사와 지속적으로 의사를 교환하고 지도와 조언을 접할 수 있는 기회를 얻을 수 있었다. 각 소양을 함양하기 위한 기본 활동 구조를 앞서 제시한 3가지 영역으로 나누어 연간 지도 계획을 수립하였다. 또한 프로그램의 효과를 높이기 위해 각 영역별 본시학습지도안을 40차시에 걸쳐 준비하여 실행하였다. 이 같은 열린 공동체 성장 프로그램을 통해 학생들은 학급 운영과 담임교사에 대해 높은 신뢰감을 갖게 되었다. 아울러 학급 구성원들과 긍정적으로 협력하고, 자신의 능력을 창의적으로 발현시키기 위해서 노력하였으며 소통의 가치를 지속적으로 실천하는 등 학급 및 학교 생활 전반에 걸쳐 바람직한 태도 변화를 보였다.

This paper observes how the third grade elementary English textbook does not provide target-like balanced language input. It proposes that the unbalance is attributed to the usefulness-based listing of communicative function expressions in the 7th National English Curriculum. The paper concludes that the problem is hard to resolve unless due and proper attention is paid to formal and structural aspects of the target language in designing national English curriculum and developing English textbooks.