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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Korean students"”.
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Korean Students' Motivation to Pursue Higher Education in the United States
… study was to investigate the motivation of South Korean college students who come to the United States to study. Does the motivation of these students differ based on their perceptions of values for pursuing higher education? The focus of this study is on what Korean students value in their …
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Anxiety as an affective factor for adult Korean students learning English as a second language
… and more specifically, to that of adult Korean students studying ESL; Three research questions were addressed: (a) Do adult Koreans learning ESL have a high degree of classroom anxiety? (b) If so, can this be attributed to some aspects of their cultural heritage or previous educational …
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Art education for social justice: empowering marginalized Korean students through a community cultural arts program
… of this dissertation is to understand how students responded to a multicultural art education curriculum designed and implemented to help multicultural students in Korea develop self-esteem and see themselves more positively, while also imparting to them a strong sense of their value as …
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The perceptions of voice teachers regarding English pronunciation difficulty among native Chinese, Japanese and Korean students
… were provided for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) singers with an effective means to sing English songs with proper diction. The phonological approach – describing the specific position of articulators – is a useful pedagogical tool for CJK singers. However, if voice teachers, whether …
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Bilingual interactions, linguistic choices, and the nature of bilingual grammar: Korean students in the United States
… OPTIMIZATION in code-switching generalizes over Korean-English bilingual data. In the dissertation, the Korean-English bilingual data demonstrate the operation of the five constraints of Bhatt and Bolonyai (2011): FAITH, POWER, SOLIDARITY, PERSPECTIVE, and FACE. In other words, these universal …
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English in the era of globalization: The conceptualization of English in Korean students in American higher education
… to identify the conceptualization of English by Korean students in the age of globalization. More specifically, this study investigates the attitudes of Korean students toward English in six different environments: social/cultural, economical, linguistic, pedagogical, technological, and …
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SCHOOLING AT THE INTERSECTION OF REFUGEE IDENTITY AND (DIS)ABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FROM NORTH KOREAN STUDENTS WITH REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS
… In their relocated society, many refugee students are interpreted as having disabilities or receiving special education services. While refugee experiences are often framed as causing deficits in students, the purpose of this study was to better understand the interplay of (dis)ability and …
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English Immersion of Middle and High School Korean Students: Linguistic and cultural Experience of Relocation to the Southwest United States
With the onset of globalization, the Korean government has emphasized English education as a key issue for Korea to succeed in the global economy. The Korean public education system has faced dramatic shifts in English education; for example, English introduction at an early age. Koreans feel …
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The role that experiential learning plays in intercultural awareness development: A case study of South Korean students sojourning in New Zealand
… shown that study abroad does help international students improve their language studies (Kinginger, 2011) and their understanding of another culture. Furthermore, the experience has often led to changes in the student’s belief systems as well as increases in their confidence and outlook on life …
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The use of a mobile instant messaging (MIM) application for English interaction in the Korean EFL context
… smart phones (Internet accessible) can provide Korean university students with more opportunities to interact in English with others to assist in their learning of English as a foreign language (EFL). However, there has been little empirical research on how students interact with each other and …
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Enhancing Oral Communications for Korean English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) Students in Business Settings
This project is intended to help adult EFL students in Korea familiarize themselves with the sounds of words and expressions that are used in everyday conversation, especially in business settings or workplaces. <p>This project, with help of technology, focuses on customizing learnings and …
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Fragile civility: an evangelical American school meets Korean educational sojourners in neoliberal time
… especially the integration of international students into U.S. schools. It examines the conflicts that emerged when a noncompetitive evangelical Midwestern Christian high school, predominantly white lower-middle class, enrolled escalating numbers of Early Study Abroad (ESA) Korean teenagers. …
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Improving Communicative Competence of Korean College Students Based On the Flipped Classroom Model: A Handbook for Teachers
<p>Korean college students tend to focus on obtaining competitive grades in different types of exams such as TOEFL, TOEIC, and IELTS. Despite their high test-scores, many Korean students are not proficient in communicating with others in English. Given the challenges many Korean students at the …
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Journey for Jazz
… video, Journey for Jazz, which explores four Korean students who major in jazz at the University of North Texas in Denton. Detailed accounts of the pre-production, production, and post-production of the video guide the reader to understand the challenging and rewarding process of making this …
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Discovering Korean learners' perceptions of intercultural encounters with their classmates
… intercultural and intracultural encounters of students enrolled in an ESL writing class at a large community college in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Two basic questions guided the study: first, how did ESL students from Korea react to each other as well as to students from …
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A case study of young Korean children's English learning experiences in the United states
The present study examined five Korean elementary students' English learning experiences in the United States. By examining Korean students' experiences while they were living in the United States, the study aimed to explore what the students themselves thought about regarding what they had learned …
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Edu - Plant : new interdisciplinary education space for teenagers in South Korea
… - public school and private institution. In 201, Korean Foundation of the Advancement of Science and Creativity (KOFAC) announced STEAM Education, the new vision for the next young generation of Korean students. It is focusing on the inspiring scenario for both teachers and students, allowing them …
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Equivalence and faking issues of the aggression questionnaire and the conditional reasoning test for aggression in Korean and American samples
… both to groups of Americans (n=432) and Koreans (n=363). Results based on the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and DIF analyses showed that the AQ and CRT-A are not invariant across these cultures. Study 2 replicated LeBreton et al.(2007) study regarding faking issues of the …
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Information behaviors of users of Korean collections: how do they find needed information?
… International Education’s 2012 survey shows that Korean international students in the USA add up to 72, 295 students, including 21,260 graduate students (Institute of International Education, 2013). A survey from Modern Languages Association found that despite the decline of students taking …
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