Collectivistic Aspects of Korean Discourse Style : Analysis from Sociocultural Perspectives

정경옥 韓南大學校 敎育硏究所 2010 교육연구 Vol.18 No.1

Language and culture are inseparably interrelated. Korean people have developed particular discourse styles that reflect the his torical, cultural and social phenomena and have shared the meaning within the Korean speech community. The Korean traditional value of collectivism places importance on maintaining group harmony, preserving traditions, and respecting authority rather than expressing individual opinions. The emphasis of the harmonious relationship in Korean traditional society has resulted in collectivism, high-context culture and high self-monitoring culture. Korean discourse styles are constantly influenced by these collectivistic characteristics shared within Korean society. Reflecting the collectivistic features of Korean culture, the pronoun 'we' has developed a special usage beyond marking a simple plural and the mechanism to express one's thoughts and feelings became indirect and digressive. Koreans realized by experience how to negotiate and communicate with nonverbal signals. The terms for social relationship were highly developed because they were expected to speak according to their relational status. This paper focused on what social and cultural situations have influenced certain discourse styles of Korean language and tried to analyze and explain the collectivistic features of Korean discourse styles according to the sociocultural and contextual frameworks. 한국어는 오랜 세월동안 한국고유의 역사와 문화 그리고 사회적인 현상을 반영하며 언어 집단 내에서 의미를 공유할 수 있는 독특한 언어 양식으로 발전되어왔기 때문에 외국어로서 한국어를 배우는 외국의 학생들이 한국문화에 대한 진정한 이해와 통찰 없이 단지 한국어의 규칙에 대한 것만 학습한다면 그것은 불완전한 언어학습이라고 할 수 밖에 없을 것이다. 한국어를 배운다는 것은 한국어의 규칙뿐만 아니라 한국어가 사용되는 한국의 사회문화적 규범도 함께 학습하는 것을 의미하기 때문에 한국어 교육에 있어서 문화교육은 지엽적인 문제가 아니라 오히려 의미 있는 의사소통능력을 향상시키는데 있어서 핵심적인 요소라고 할 것이다. 이 연구는 이러한 한국인의 독특한 언어현상을 사회 문화적인 맥락에서 살펴보았다. 이 연구에서는 한국인의 담화에 나타나는 집산주의 지향적 문화의 영향을 분석하여 언어습관과 문화적, 사회적 습관과의 관련성을 조사 분석하고 있으며 한국인의 언어습관으로서 대명사 '우리' 사용, 간접적이며 완곡한 언어습관, 암시적이며 비언어적 언어수단의 사용, 사회적 상대적 관계에 예민한 점 등을 분석하여 한국인의 언어사용이 개인중심 문화보다 집산주의 지향적이고 사회적 화목을 중시하는 문화에 영향을 받고 있음을 살펴보고 있다.

Cooperative and Collaborative Learning through Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in EFL University Reading Instruction

Jeong, Kyeong-Ouk The English Teachers Association in Korea 2011 영어어문교육 Vol.17 No.4

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a group activity, reciprocal peer tutoring (RPT), in order to investigate advantages and challenges of RPT in promoting cooperative and collaborative learning environment for EFL University reading instruction. The participants in this study were 89 students taking an English reading course at a Korean university. RPT is a learning strategy whereby learners help each other and learn by teaching. This program was supported by a Vygotskyan perspective which assumes that learners gain mastery and develop cognitive skills through social interaction with more proficient others and their environment. This study relied particularly on participant perceptions through questionnaire survey and Anonymous Online class Report of the course. This study showed various advantages for tutors such as learning through teaching and becoming more autonomous and responsible for their own learning. Non-threatening and highly motivating learning atmosphere are parts of benefits for tutees. Other advantages for tutees included improved level of academic self-confidence, and motivation. This study also revealed several drawbacks associated with the problem of inaccuracy in students' production and students' demand for more direct teacher role. (182 words).

Promoting Communicative Language Teaching in EFL Context: An English Writing Course Mediated through the Web

Kyeong-Ouk Jeong 팬코리아영어교육학회(구 영남영어교육학회) 2006 영어교육연구 Vol.18 No.3

  Communicative language teaching (CLT) has become an innovative way in the field of English education to promote “communicative competence” of language learners. The paradigm of English education in Korea is moving toward the notion of CLT. Since students in EFL settings have trouble in practicing their communicative language learning experience outside the classrooms, some special efforts should be made to help students practice their communicative language learning in their everyday lives. This study outlines the rationale of how Korean hi-tech credentials with the rapid progress of technology and their application to language education can be a solution for providing real and authentic learning environments for CLT. This study will explain what CLT means in English education and then examine how we can help students expand their language learning experience outside the classroom. This paper will investigate the advantage of building a language community for a college writing course through the web in order to provide students with less threatening learning environments and promote students’ communicative competence and inquire how teachers’ positive and supporting feedback through e-mail exchanges can boost the students’ communicative competence.

Analysis of the Pedagogical Perspectives Represented in the Movie Dangerous Minds: Based on the Constructivist Framework

Jeong, Kyeong-Ouk The Korea Contents Association 2013 International Journal of Contents Vol.9 No.4

The purpose of this paper is to analyze educational theories and practices represented in the movie Dangerous Minds. This paper begins by giving the overview of the movie. Then this paper makes an analysis of the pedagogical methods and practices used by the teacher in the movie, which can encourage students to fulfill their academic success and social mobility. The lives of students at risk are transformed through the teacher's beliefs and pedagogical practices based on the constructivism, leading students on a path of selfdiscovery and self-empowerment. What is imperative in the students' lives here is their intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy toward the self and their educational system. By providing constructivist pedagogical paradigms and viewing these media texts within the context of an urban school, this paper intends to introduce educational theories and methods which can create better educational environment for students. In short, this study explores teaching theories and methods represented in the movie based on the constructivist perspectives, which are supposed to fully cultivate the potential of students.

Analysis of the Pedagogical Perspectives Represented in the Movie Dangerous Minds

Kyeong-Ouk Jeong 한국콘텐츠학회(IJOC) 2013 International Journal of Contents Vol.9 No.4

The purpose of this paper is to analyze educational theories and practices represented in the movie Dangerous Minds. This paper begins by giving the overview of the movie. Then this paper makes an analysis of the pedagogical methods and practices used by the teacher in the movie, which can encourage students to fulfill their academic success and social mobility. The lives of students at risk are transformed through the teacher’s beliefs and pedagogical practices based on the constructivism, leading students on a path of selfdiscovery and self-empowerment. What is imperative in the students’ lives here is their intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy toward the self and their educational system. By providing constructivist pedagogical paradigms and viewing these media texts within the context of an urban school, this paper intends to introduce educational theories and methods which can create better educational environment for students. In short, this study explores teaching theories and methods represented in the movie based on the constructivist perspectives, which are supposed to fully cultivate the potential of students.

Fantasy Literature in English Literary Education : Images of Schooling and Adult

Jeong, Kyeong-Ouk 한국중앙영어영문학회 2006 영어영문학연구 Vol.48 No.3

This paper explores the current trends in the popularity of youth fantasy books, expecially Joan K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997) and seeks to investigate the educational implication of the images reflected in the children’s fantasy books. Fantasy should be understood as a medium of illuminating another level of interpretation to understand its appeal and popularity to children. This paper seeks the reason why fantasy books capture children’s attention with wild enthusiasm in Korea and what themes have attracted them. Fantasy can empower children. By reading fantasy literature, children meet the heroes of the story and can identify with them in the heroic quest of the story. Fantasy may help children as readers to deal with issues of suppression and subordination and provide them with the liberated area from the authority and supervision of school and adults. Such subversion of power may be a factor that is drawing children to the Potter series. In the literary world of fantasy, children can exercise their own power over their lives without adults’ interference. On the journey, children join the hero’s adventure as an educational experience in self-knowledge and self-realization.

The Use of Social Media to Improve University Students’ EFL Learning

Kyeong-Ouk Jeong 한국콘텐츠학회 2022 한국콘텐츠학회 ICCC 논문집 Vol.2022 No.12

Collectivistic Aspects of Korean Discourse Style

Jeong, Kyeong-ouk(정경옥) 한남대학교 교육연구소 2010 교육연구 Vol.18 No.1

한국어는 오랜 세월동안 한국고유의 역사와 문화 그리고 사회적인 현상을 반영하며 언어 집단 내에서 의미를 공유할 수 있는 독특한 언어 양식으로 발전되어왔기 때문에 외국어로서 한국어를 배우는 외국의 학생들이 한국문화에 대한 진정한 이해와 통찰 없이 단지 한국어의 규칙에 대한 것만 학습한다면 그것은 불완전한 언어학습이라고 할 수 밖에 없을 것이다. 한국어를 배운다는 것은 한국어의 규칙뿐만 아니라 한국어가 사용되는 한국의 사회문화적 규범도 함께 학습하는 것을 의미하기 때문에 한국어 교육에 있어서 문화교육은 지엽적인 문제가 아니라 오히려 의미 있는 의사소통능력을 향상시키는데 있어서 핵심적인 요소라고 할 것이다. 이 연구는 이러한 한국인의 독특한 언어현상을 사회 문화적인 맥락에서 살펴보았다. 이 연구에서는 한국인의 담화에 나타나는 집산주의 지향적 문화의 영향을 분석하여 언어습관과 문화적, 사회적 습관과의 관련성을 조사 분석하고 있으며 한국인의 언어습관으로서 대명사 ‘우리’의 사용, 간접적이며 완곡한 언어습관, 암시적이며 비언어적 언어수단의 사용, 사회적 상대적 관계에 예민한 점 등을 분석하여 한국인의 언어사용이 개인중심 문화보다 집산주의 지향적이고 사회적 화목을 중시하는 문화에 영향을 받고 있음을 살펴보고 있다. Language and culture are inseparably interrelated. Korean peo ple have developed particular discourse styles that reflect the his torical, cultural and social phenomena and have shared the meaning within the Korean speech community. The Korean traditional value of collectivism places importance on maintaining group har mony, preserving traditions, and respecting authority rather than expressing individual opinions. The emphasis of the harmonious relationship in Korean traditional society has resulted in collect ivism, high-context culture and high self-monitoring culture. Korean discourse styles are constantly influenced by these collecti vistic characteristics shared within Korean society. Reflecting the collectivistic features of Korean culture, the pronoun ‘we’ ha s developed a special usage beyond marking a simple plural and the mechanism to express one’s thoughts and feelings became indi rect and digressive. Koreans realized by experience how to negoti ate and communicate with nonverbal signals. The terms for social relationship were highly developed because they were expected to speak according to their relational status. This paper focused on what social and cultural situations have influenced certain discourse styles of Korean language and tried to analyze and explain the collectivistic features of Korean discourse styles according to the sociocultural and contextual frameworks.

Integrating the Social Networking System as the Course Management Platform

Kyeong-Ouk Jeong 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Software Engineering and Vol.9 No.12

The development of ICT has made it possible to incorporate innovative technologies into various university courses in order to complement conventional curriculum and educational settings. With the help of advanced information and communication technology, anytime and anywhere principles have been realized in both learning and teaching. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of using ICT, especially the social networking system, as a course management platform for more authentic and interactive university instruction. Among various social networking systems, Facebook is chosen because of its popularity and convenience for both teachers and students. This study depicts a case study of implementing Facebook group as the course management platform and then explains how the use of Facebook group can make English academic writing instruction become more genuine and interactive in Korean EFL university context.

Integrating Open Source Online LMS for Learner-Centered Dynamic Learning Environment

Kyeong Ouk Jeong 한국콘텐츠학회 2013 ICCC International Digital Design Invitation Exhib Vol.2013 No.12