A growing number of task-based learning (TBL) research has employed a processoriented research framework to analyze second language data in L2 classrooms using a task-in-process vs. task-as-workplan dichotomy (e.g., Seedhouse, 2004). Adopting the task-in-process framework, the current study analyzes how students in Korean EFL classrooms interact during information gap task activities. How do sequences of interaction during information gap tasks differ from the task-as-workplan? What are the specific institutional goals that the participants orient to while completing these tasks? This article attempts to answer these questions by analyzing the interactions that occur during a series of information gap tasks performed by different groups of Korean middle school students. The findings show how information gap tasks create minimized and truncated sequences that are different from the task-as-workplan as well as from how people would interact in ordinary conversation. Rather than promoting more talk by engaging in negotiation of meaning, learners engaged in a series of completion-oriented sequences to find the correct response in the most efficient way possible. The paper ends with suggestions for improving the design of tasks in pedagogical settings.

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing sales of health functional foods by door-to-door saleswomen. A total of 450 women who worked as door-to-door salespersons in Seoul were enrolled. The survey questionnaire was composed of five parts as follows: general characteristics, factors related with door-to-door sales process, task education, competency required for door-to-door salespersons, and customer relationship beliefs. The survey was conducted in October 2011. Finally, data on 302 subjects were statistically analyzed using the SPSS 17.0 package program. Reason for sales of health functional foods (p<0.01), time required for sales promotion (p<0.001), difficulties during sales of health functional foods (p<0.05), satisfaction of task education (p<0.01), and failure of salesperson's memory as problems of task education (p<0.01) were significantly associated with sales of health functional foods. However, means of sales promotion, frequency and time of task education, and competency required for door-to-door salespersons were not significantly related with sales of health functional foods. Customer relationship beliefs did not show significant association with sales of health functional foods either. In conclusion, certain factors were associated with sales of health functional foods by door-to-door saleswomen. These results provide an understanding for sales of door-to-door health functional foods and provide basic information for preparation of task education for health functional food saleswomen and marketing.

현재 토사재해 방재시설은 법적으로「사방사업법」,「국토의 계획 및 이용에 관한 법률」에 의한 사방시설이 있으나 대부분 산지 대책 중심이고, 실제로 피해를 받는 도심지에는「시설물의 안전관리에 관한 특별법」에 의한 일부 2종시설물이 있으나 다양한 대책이 미흡하고 관리기관이 명확하지 않아 현실적으로 그마저도 제대로 관리가 되지 않고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 도심지 토사재해 방재시설에 대한 효율적 관리 및 장기간 사용을 도모하기 위해 도심지 토사재해 방재시설에 대한 생애주기별 업무프로세스를 정의하고 시설물 현황, 관리 이력, 문제점 등을 정량적, 통계적으로 파악하고 관리할 수 있는 항목을 설정하였다. 우선 토사재해 방재시설 현황분석을 통해 본 연구의 토사재해를 정의하였으며, 과거 피해지역의 토지이용 특성 분석을 통해 구분한 토사재해 공간적 범위를 적용하여 본 연구의 도심지 토사재해 방재시설을 정의 및 분류하였다. 또한 일반적인 생애주기단계를 토사재해 방재시설 측면에 적용하여 생애주기별 업무를 분석하고 도심지 토사재해 방재시설을 통합적으로 관리할 수 있는 생애주기별 관리항목 설정 및 관리방향, 업무프로세스를 도출하였다.