Interactional modification is important in SLA research because it involves correcting problematic L2 use. However, not all modifications will lead to pedagogical changes. Participants in conversational interactions are not always oriented to linguistic forms or functions. One way to address this dilemma is to examine the process by which participants come to terms with problematic L2 use in interactional exchanges. “Language moments” refer to cases in which L2 forms and functions are objects of interactive exchanges in L2 interactions. Through conversation analysis, the present study uncovered four different types in which participants in L2 interaction discovered and acted on language moments in terms of the degree of explicitness in recognizing and addressing problematic L2 use. This study used data from ESL classroom interactions that featured native teachers of English and L2 learners in an US context. This descriptive account of interactional processes might complement prior research studies that have focused on effects of interactional modification.

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.

With the rapid change of social outlook and the emergence of new things, neologisms and neologisms have also become an eye-catching and vigorous field of vocabulary research. Since the reform and opening up, the social outlook has greatly changed , and new things have emerged one after another. New words and new expressions have also become an eye-catching, changing and vigorous field of vocabulary research. According to the definition of neologisms and neologisms, the author sorted out 100 neologisms and neologisms released in the past ten years (2011-2020) of "Chinese inventory of the top ten neologisms and neologisms of the year", supplemented some examples with reference to the report on the living conditions of Chinese language (2005-2020), and selected 200 high-frequency neologisms and neologisms in the past 15 years based on the standard of modern Chinese neologisms and neologisms (including more than 10000 entries from 1990 to 2016). From definition to Motivation and semantic classification, phonetic　and grammatical word-building features, word-making methods and teaching strategies ,all of the above are thoroughly analyzed from theory to practice.

Many empirical findings of previous studies have suggested a connection between motivational factors and L2 writing. Nonetheless, the impact of motivational factors on the genre-based L2 writing has not gained much attention. The present study explored the extent to which the characteristics of two writing tasks involving different genres interact with a learner’s motivational disposition (regulatory focus) and, further, affect language production of writing. 106 essays collected from 53 university EFL learners were assessed in terms of linguistic complexity and accuracy. 2X2 ANOVA results revealed significant main effects of genre on lexical complexity (lexical variation and MSTTR). More importantly, there were significant interaction effects between genre and regulatory focus on both measures of the syntactic complexity (mean length of T-unit and clause per T-unit) and lexical complexity (lexical density). The findings highlighted the significance of learners’ motivational dispositions in genre writing. Drawing on the findings, some pedagogical suggestions to ensure the effectiveness of writing tasks on L2 development were proposed.

The present study aims to investigate the patterns and characteristics of impoliteness strategies and impoliteness formulas in Korean learners’ interlanguage complaints, focusing primarily on advanced Chinese learners. Discourse Completion Test(DCT) was utilized to investigate interlanguage complaints, with each scenario providing the research participants with information on publicness, familiarities between the interlocutors, and their social status levels. Impoliteness, as well as politeness, were examined. In the meantime, the effect of those three factors above on the selecting impoliteness strategies or politeness strategies were also investigated. According to the results of the patterns of impoliteness strategies, learners were more inclined to use impoliteness strategies in private scenarios compared to those public scenarios, to hearers with equal or lower social status compared to those with higher social status, and to familiar hearers compared to those unfamiliar. In terms of the characteristics of impoliteness formulas, learners showed a high proportion of bald-on impoliteness strategies in all the 12 scenarios. Secondly, some of the learners failed to use honorifics in certain scenarios, damaging decencies of their hearers and even in being regarded as interlocutors with improper manners. Lastly, most of the learners neglected negative politeness, which is by no means less important that its positive counterpart.

Twenty-six learners of English enrolled in an MA course were asked to give the metaphors which they think best capture the essence of their learning experience so far. Their metaphors tell how English learning had introduced them to a brand new world and, once they were inside it, led them to a seemingly endless series of new discoveries. The unpredictability of these discoveries had been like ‘reading a magic story’. Students had often faced challenges but had also derived satisfaction from overcoming them. The metaphors connect more strongly with ‘intrinsic’ motivation than with the more utilitarian concepts of ‘extrinsic’ and ‘instrumental’ motivation. This might reflect the composition of the learner group, who had all chosen to specialize in some form of English study in their previous education. However that may be, they encourage us to create space in our teaching for the humanistic dimensions of imagination and creativity, even in courses where the explicit aim is to serve a specific pragmatic purpose.

In an effort to find a way to optimize the learning condition, this study examined the effects of two types of input frequency distribution, skewed-first distribution (SFD) versus balanced distribution (BD), and two types of focus-on-form techniques, input processing (IP) versus input enhancement (IE), on the learning of English participles by Korean middle school students. A total of 91 students participated in this study, divided into five subgroups: SFD + IP, SFD + IE, BD + IP, BD + IE, and Control. The learning outcomes and the generalizability of the learned knowledge were measured through scaled judgment tasks and picture description tasks, immediately after treatment as well as one week later. The results showed that the input frequency distribution factor did not have statistically significant effects on learning and generalizability, while the degrees of explicitness of focus-on-form techniques had statistically significant effects on both. The interaction effects of the two main factors were not statistically significant. More detailed findings are presented with some pedagogical implications for Korean EFL classrooms.

The purpose of this study is to present the contents of ‘Korean politeness’, which can be used to learn ‘Korean as a Second Language’, from the perspective of ‘conversational performance’. To this end, first, the concept of Korean politeness was examined in two elements: ‘sociocultural norm consciousness’ and ‘conversational strategy of individual speech act’. A conversational performance model of Korean politeness was also investigated as a educational unit of politeness contents. This performance model is composed of ‘adjacency pair’ and based of ‘common ground’ including honorific and speech act requirements. In order to construct educational politeness contents for KSL learner, conversational scenes of the revised KSL textbook, Standard Korean for Elementary Schoolchild were then analysed. In conclusion, politeness contents of KSL textbook were revealed in three aspects: ‘practice of using honorific style’, ‘politeness routines’, ‘politeness expressions and strategies’. Based on the results of the analysis, the direction of politeness education for KSL learners in elementary school was finally proposed in both ‘speech act’ and ‘conversation type’ pragmatic education.

중국어의 글자와 단어는 형태·소리·의미상 매우 다양하고 복잡한 특성을 가지고 있다. 이로 인해 많은 중국어를 사용하지 않던 (non-Chinese speaking) 학생들은 이와 같은 중국어의 글자와 단어·구 조합의 다양한 특징을 쉽게 변별하기 어렵다. 모국어인 영어 또는 필리핀어, 파키스탄어, 네팔어 등과 같은 기본 자모를 갖춘 언어들은 모두 병음 문자 계통을 사용 하기 때문에, 중국어에서 사용하는 한자의 자형·자의의 개념에 대한 이해가 부족할 수 밖에 없다. 이로 인해 그들은 한자를 쓸 때마다 매우 큰 어려움을 겪게 된다. 이를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 제시된 『閱讀促進學習』(Reading to Learn, 이하 'R2L'이라고 약칭한다.) 교육법은 그들의 어려움을 극복하는데 일정한 성과가 있었다. 본 논문은 중국어가 비 모국어인 학생들의 대외한어 수업에서 R2L을 사용하여 한자를 가르치는 현장 설계와 그 수업 절차를 관찰 및 분석하였고, 실험 결과 이 교육법이 학생들의 말과 글을 묘사하는 능력을 향상시키는 데 일정한 효과가 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 '사례연구'라는 연구방법으로 R2L 교육법이 중국어를 모국어로 하지 않는 홍콩 학생들의 대외한어 작문 수업에서 어떻게 활용되고 있는지에 대해 연구를 진행하였고, R2L 교육법을 통해 중학교 1학년 학생들에게 문장 또는 글자를 묘사하는 것을 교육하는 현장 상황을 분석하였다. 또한 교사와 학생들의 인터뷰, 수업 심층연구 및 원문분석 등의 연구 도구들을 활용하여 대외한어교육현장에서 진행되 는 한자교육에서의 R2L 교육법 도입과 그 가치(효율성)에 대한 내용을 총정리하였다. 본 연구결과를 통해, 중국어 교사가 R2L교육법을 실시한 후, 서로 다른 수준을 갖고 있는 학생들이 글자와 문장을 묘사하는 능력을 제고시키는 데 효과가 있었음을 확인할 수 있었다. 연구자들은 본 논문의 연구결과를 토대로, 대외한어교육현장에서 R2L교육법을 응용한 한자교육의 전략에 대해 관련된 의견들을 제시하고자 한다.

“Action-oriented Approach (AA)” as a new teaching method has taken an important role in teaching and learning of French Education during past 10 years. However, even though the new teaching method is very welcome for educators, now it is the time that we have to consider whether the key principle and fundamental notion of this approach is suitable for our language education environments and is theoretically appropriate for education. For that, it is necessary that we have to carefully examine this “Action-oriented Approach” from two points of views. First of all, from the angle of foreign language education, we need to verify whether this new approach could be appropriately applied in teaching and learning of Korean foreign language education or not. Secondly, from a societal perspective, we need to examine how this method, considering language education as everyday life itself, can handle some critical perspectives in the point of “status in quo” of “AA”. It has been criticized that language education as everyday life itself can make learners in everyday life to unconsciously acquire maintaining the ‘status quo’ during actions such as “educational inequality”. It is expected that this kind of examination will suggest us an improved way of “AA” for more effective and appropriate practice of French Education, and will give us an opportunity to think about the better way of teaching and learning model by “AA” in Korea.

This study surveys a total of 127 L2 writing-related articles published in English Teaching over the past 50 years (1965-2015) with reference to research methodology, participants, and themes. The key outcomes are as follows. These articles on L2 writing in English successfully embrace diverse methodological approaches, not displaying a heavy reliance on quantitative methods. Among the study participants, those in higher educational settings maintain a comfortable lead, calling for more articles with elementary and secondary school students. A notable proliferation has been observed since the mid-l990s along with a numerical grow山 in articles on L2 writing. The research theme of classroom instruction appears most often over the journal's 50-year history, followed by learner traits and characteristics of Korean students' writing. The topics of assessment and technology use have gradually evolved into two of the major content areas in L2 writing research, while the theme of skill integration has remained under-researched. Overall, L2 writing research produced in English Teaching seems to exhibit diversity in methodology, participants, and themes.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state of research on learner factors in second language acquisition by reviewing relevant studies published in English Teaching over the past 50 years. A total of 182 articles on various learner factors were extracted from the journal. Further detailed analyses were conducted on 110 articles on strategy, motivation, and personality traits in terms ofpublication year, research topics, participants, methods, and researchers' concentration. The results reveal that research on learner factors has significantly expanded over time in terms of volume and diversity, reflecting increasing research interests in the field. As for research methodology, a quantitative approach was far more frequent but qualitative and mixedmethod approaches have gained visibility since 2000. Yet, most of the studies focused on tertiary level learners, while overall neglecting primary and secondary level learners. Furthermore, individual researchers' interests in the factors looked rather sporadic as revealed in the lack of research concentration. Based on the findings, suggestions for future research on learner factors are made.

The present study examines L2 reading proficiency effects on the relative contribution of vocabulary knowledge and grammar knowledge to L2 reading comprehension for Korean high school EFL learners. To this end, 200 high school students were asked to take a vocabulary knowledge test, a grammar test, and a reading comprehension test. The participants were divided into three sub-groups by L2 reading ability in order to examine L2 proficiency effects. Multiple regression analyses for the sub-groups indicated the relationships among the three variables as distinctive. The results showed that syntactic knowledge had a predictive power for reading performance in the high reading group, but vocabulary had the same quality in the intermediate reading group. For the low reading group, neither vocabulary nor grammar could significantly account for the L2 reading variance. Theoretical implications and directions for further studies are discussed.

This study aims at exploring the theoretical perspectives and research related to second language teacher identities. In particular, this paper focuses on the studies on the identities of English teachers in the Korean educational system. Major findings are as follows: First, based on the previous literature on teacher identities, teacher identities are defined as dynamic, multidimensional, and changing, as they continuously interact with individual, social, and cultural contexts. Second, it was found that studies have focused on (1) the meta-analyses of English teacher identities, (2) native-speaking English teacher identities, (3) the identities of non-native-speaking English teachers co-teaching with native-English-speaking teachers, (4) the identities of non-native-speaking English teachers including pre- and in-service teachers, and (5) teacher identity development through teacher education activities. Lastly, this paper brings up issues and suggestions on the formation and development of English teacher identities. It also offers directions for the future research on professional identities of second language teachers.

한국어 교육에서 가장 중요한 핵심 요소 중 하나는 한자계 어휘에 대한 교육이 다. 어떤 언어의 학습에서와 마찬가지로 한국어 학습은 또 하나의 다른 언어적 도 구를 학습하는 것이다. 주지하다시피 한자계 어휘는 한국어 어휘의 중추적 요소이 다. 곧 한국어의 학습 목표에 따라 학습자는 더 많은 한자계 어휘를 습득하고 활 용해야 하는 필요성이 있다. 또 다른 측면에서 한자와 한자계 어휘교육은 다른 한자문화권 언어 교육으로의 접근 용이성을 높여주며, 긍정적 전이를 통한 교육의 효율성을 담보할 수 있는 중 요한 요소이며, 그 국가의 문화적 특성을 이해하고 수용하는데도 매우 중요한 요 소로 작용할 수 있다. 결국 한국어 교육에서 수행되는 한자와 어휘 교육은 1차적으로는 한국어를 교육하려는 목적에서 그 유용성을 가지지만, 다른 측면에서 볼 때 그 한자문화권 모 든 국가의 전통문화를 수용하고, 그 국가의 개별 언어를 학습하는데 일정 정도 기 여할 수 있다. 이런 측면에서 내국인을 대상으로 하는 “한문”교과의 교과목표와 상당 부분 일치한다고 할 수 있다. 이는 한문교과가 한국만의 독특한 개별교과로 만 유의미한 것이 아니라 한자문화권의 기초교양교과로 역할이 변경 혹은 증대될 수 있음을 말해준다. 본고는 이런 측면에서 한자계 어휘 교육이 특정 국가의 언어를 벗어나 한자문 화권 전체의 공통적이며 기본적인 교육이 될 수 있음을 말하였다.

通过对泰国中级阶段留学生进行的HSK模拟测试实验发现，当今留学生的读写能力远远落后于听说能力，已经严重制约和影响了学生言语技能和言语交际技能的提高，这一现状要求我们必须及时加强对外汉语教学中的文字教学。然而探究更为恰当、高效的文字教学方法是我们研究的重点。根据汉字特点，我们认为形声字教学方法是能够有效解决留学生识字能力差问题的好方法，主要可以从这几方面开展，一是找出规律，举一反三；二是戏说汉字，讲解文化；三是组织竞赛，激发兴趣；四是纵横联想，以点带面。