This study aimed to compare the effects of the two phonics teaching methods one with phonological manipulation (M1) and the other without phonological manipulation (M2) on L2 childrens phonological awareness and their perceptions of L2 reading ability and strategies For data collection, a phonological awareness test and a questionnaire about the participants reading..
It is Chomskys great achievement that he instituted rationalism such as linguistic creativity and innateness in linguistics Based on uniformity and rapidity of language acquisition (or growth), he established species-specific innate Universal Grammar (UG), the faculty of language However, Chomsky proposed that UG results from mutations This mutation theory, in rele..
This study was to explore the probability of using a book club for the development of reading and debate ability among undergraduates This study investigated the participants in 2015 Hallym University Symbious Book Club in regard to their motivations to attend, reading topics of interest, and plans to perform reading activities On the basis of the investigation, the ul..
Diverse meteorological phenomena such as rain, snow, sleet, wind, thunderstorm, hurricane, fog, and cloud are mentioned in daily weather news This study aimed to analyze adjectives used for describing meteorological phenomena To analyze these adjectives I first constructed a corpus of weather news obtained from web sites Then I extracted adjectives describing meteorologi..
This study aims to examine Ahns (2012) dichotomous analysis of (multiple) fragments in Korean based on distinction between syntactic and pragmatic ellipsis and to suggest an alternative unified syntactic deletion analysis which can be implemented with different conception of phrase structure for Korean Pointing out that Ahns claims that Case-marked fragments are der..
The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of Korean EFL students on-line TOEIC listening practice on each part of TOEIC LC achievement, and to examine their perceptions on the online listening experiences The experimental group (n=30) participated in on-line TOEIC listening practices over 11 weeks, while the control group (n=30) took off-line TOEIC..
The purpose of this study was to explore students and team-teachers opinions on a general English team-teaching program at a Korean university A total of 192 students and 26 team-teachers participated in this study The participants completed a survey with 37 items, questioning their satisfaction with the program and their suggestions for effective follow-up team-teach..
The purpose of this study is to investigate the properties of morphological words and phonological words, and to show how phonological phenomena can be described and explained with respect to phonological words It is usually acceptable that a word, which has a form and symbolizes as a sound and a meaning, has an independent form and a complete meaning In terms of three elemen..
It is generally accepted that Korean language has no subject-verb agreement Moreover, some of the recent studies on subject-verb agreement argue that the agreement actually does not have consistent materialization of morphemes, and that it is not an obligatory grammatical phenomenon However, the purpose of this study was to assert that subject-verb agreement is universal ..
The purpose of this study was to explore authors awareness of genres of news articles when compiling them into Korean language textbooks Acknowledging that the primary criterion of selecting textbooks is their relevance to educational achievement standards, we assumed that authors would have a wide variety of intentions to select news articles in textbooks Along with thi..
Due to the characteristics of English as an SOT language and Korean as a non-SOT language, the differences between the two languages in tenses should be reflected in translating English complex and compound sentences into Korean I compared translators translations with machine translations focusing on Korean translations of the tenses of those English sentences I fou..
This paper discusses restrictions observed in the attachment of verbal extensions to all verb bases in Degema Kari (1995) discusses verbal extensions in Degema focusing on the number, underlying forms, and phonological rules that derive the surface forms of these extensions, but does not discuss the factors that permit or prohibit the attachment of each of the extensions t..
This paper demonstrates the parallels between jussive subjects and imposters by probing the cooccurrence with a notional pronoun, binding effects and word order constraint, and subject honorification pattern Based on these shared properties, we argue for a simpler classification of nominal expressions by subsuming jussive subjects under the heading of imposter\ We then..