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A Validity Argument for the Interpretation and Use of Revised TEPS Scores 解释和使用修订TEPS分数的有效性论证
Language research Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.s.65
Heesung Jun
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引用次数: 0
Background and Foundational Research for the Revision of the TEPS TEPS修订的背景与基础研究
Language research Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.s.17
Heesung Jun, Heokseung Kwon, Mi-jeong Song, Chanho Park, Youngmi Lee, Yong-Won Lee
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Linguistic Cultures in SNULT for Second Foreign Languages: The Case of SNULT Chinese and SNULT French Listening Comprehension Sections 第二外语SNULT中的语言文化:以SNULT汉语和法语听力部分为例
Language research Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.s.75
Nam-Ho Sohn, Kilsoo Ko
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引用次数: 1
A Twenty-Year History of the TEPS and Its Prehistory TEPS的二十年历史及其前身
Language research Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.s.1
Yong-Won Lee, Heesung Jun
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引用次数: 0
Analysis of Question Types in Second Foreign Language SNULT as a Language Testing Tool: Focusing on German and Japanese Tests 第二外语考试作为语言测试工具的题型分析——以德语和日语测试为中心
Language research Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.s.93
Hyeyoung Park, Miran Kang
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引用次数: 1
Reliability of TEPS Section Scores and the Total Score TEPS部分成绩和总分的可靠性
Language research Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.s.51
Euijin Lim
{"title":"Reliability of TEPS Section Scores and the Total Score","authors":"Euijin Lim","doi":"10.30961/lr.2019.55.s.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.s.51","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the current study is to investigate the reliability and stability of the section and total (composite) scores of TEPS from the classical test theory perspectives. For reliability analyses, multiple sets of data were collected not only from the operational TEPS administrations before and after the revision but also from the four pilot tests administered during the TEPS revision process. Cronbach’s (1951) alpha coefficients were computed for four different section scores of the tests while Feldt and Brennan’s (1989) composite score reliability coefficients were computed for the total scores of these tests. These coefficients are examined and compared across different test forms of the original and revised TEPS. Coefficients of equivalence and stability and correlation coefficients between forms before and after the revision were also examined to see how stable TEPS scores were. The results showed that TEPS section scores and the total score were reliable and that the changes introduced by the revision did not reduce the stability. The total score had high reliability above 0.9 indicating that TEPS can be used as a dependable indicator of Korean English language learners’ English proficiency to inform language-related, decision-making.","PeriodicalId":89433,"journal":{"name":"Language research","volume":"140 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41283031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Foreign Language Anxiety and Self-Efficacy: Intermediate Korean as a Foreign Language Learners 外语焦虑与自我效能感：作为外语学习者的中级韩语
Language research Pub Date : 2019-08-31 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.431
Min Jung Jee
{"title":"Foreign Language Anxiety and Self-Efficacy: Intermediate Korean as a Foreign Language Learners","authors":"Min Jung Jee","doi":"10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.431","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the foreign language anxiety (FLA) and foreign language (FL) self-efficacy of learners of intermediate Korean as a foreign language (KFL), in relation to four language skills (i.e., speaking, listening, reading, and writing). Forty-one KFL students, enrolled in Second-year and Third-year level Korean courses at a university in Australia, completed an online questionnaire. The findings suggested that these students had moderate levels of FLA ( M =2.78), especially regarding speaking ( M =3.16) and listening ( M =3.09). The students also showed high levels of self-efficacy in listening ( M =3.66) and speaking ( M =3.36). Positive correlations were found between FLA and the four skill-specific anxieties, with negative correlations between FLA and levels of self-efficacy in the four specific skills. Speaking self-efficacy was found to be the best predictor of FLA, and a lack of knowledge of Korean was revealed to be the major source of anxiety across all four skills. The students also felt confident when performing routine class activities.","PeriodicalId":89433,"journal":{"name":"Language research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47561407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
The Role of Frequency in the Processing of giving and receiving Events in Korean 频率在韩国语给予与接受事件加工中的作用
Language research Pub Date : 2019-08-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.253
Hongoak Yun, Eun-gyeong Yi
{"title":"The Role of Frequency in the Processing of giving and receiving Events in Korean","authors":"Hongoak Yun, Eun-gyeong Yi","doi":"10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.253","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to examine the processing benefits of frequency information associated with the case marker -eykey in comprehending Korean declarative sentences. By using a picture description task in which pictures ambiguously illustrated either a giving event (-eykeyREC ... cwuta ‘give ... to’) or a receiving event (-eykeySOURCE ... patta ‘receive ... from’), we found that giving events were predominantly preferred to receiving events. The results of the online sentence comprehension study revealed that 1) give-type verbs were integrated into sentences faster than receive-type verbs overall and 2) the reading-time differences between the verb types were significant when role NPs were canonically ordered (NP-eykey ... NP-(l)ul) but not when they were noncanonically presented (NP-(l)ul ... NP-eykey). We claim that structural and semantic frequency bias associated with -eykey facilitates readers’ anticipatory processing in the integration of upcoming information. We further discuss how the processing differences in giving and receiving events might attribute to the argument-adjunct distinction between recipients and sources.","PeriodicalId":89433,"journal":{"name":"Language research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43891180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Information Status and Prosodic Prominence as Perceived by Korean Learners of English 韩国英语学习者的信息状态与韵律突出
Language research Pub Date : 2019-08-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.413
Suyeon Im
{"title":"Information Status and Prosodic Prominence as Perceived by Korean\u0000 Learners of English","authors":"Suyeon Im","doi":"10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.413","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the relationship between information status and prosodic prominence perceived by Korean learners of the English language, compared to English native speakers, in a complete public speech. Both groups of speakers were asked to mark words that they perceived as being prominent, while listening to a speech in real time. The information status of a word was annotated as a function of referential and lexical information, as well as focus. The results show that Korean native speakers perceive prosodic prominence in a similar manner to that of English native speakers. Both groups are more likely to perceive prominence for new or focused words than for given or non-focused words. The two groups, however, differ in that Korean native speakers tend to more frequently perceive prominence for words carrying lexical information than English native speakers. This bias seems to be influenced by parts-of-speech, in alignment with the findings of previous studies.","PeriodicalId":89433,"journal":{"name":"Language research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47933410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Korean wh-Island Sentences: Individual Differences in Acceptability Judgments and Working Memory 朝鲜语wh岛句:可接受性判断与工作记忆的个体差异
Language research Pub Date : 2019-08-01 DOI: 10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.379
H. Hahn
{"title":"Korean wh-Island Sentences: Individual Differences\u0000 in Acceptability Judgments and Working Memory","authors":"H. Hahn","doi":"10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.379","url":null,"abstract":"While it has been claimed that scrambling in East Asian languages is not subject to wh- island effects, studies into theoretical and experimental syntax have suggested that native Korean speakers vary in their acceptance of island constructions. This study addresses the individual differences in the acceptability judgments of Korean wh- island sentences in terms of working memory. In order to determine if the varied judgments of acceptability are attributable to differences in individuals’ working memory, an acceptability judgment test on various Korean wh- island constructions, and two memory span tests — a reading span test and a digit span test — were administered to 66 adult Korean native speakers. Pearson correlation analysis and a factor analysis were then performed on the participants’ acceptability judgment ratings and memory spans. The results revealed that the individuals’ acceptability judgments for wh- island sentences were not correlated with their reading span or digit span, although the group’s mean acceptability of the constructions gradually decreased as their expected processing complexity increased. These findings indicate that differences in individuals’ working memory are not the source of the observed acceptability variation.","PeriodicalId":89433,"journal":{"name":"Language research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41690424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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