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This paper aims to show the diphthong system of Jeju dialect speakers in their 70s or older on the basis of the acoustic analysis of their phonetic data. It is revealed through the analysis of their phonetic data that they clearly distinguish both such monophthongs as [.], [e] and [æ] and such diphthongs as [we], [w.], [y.] and [yo]. However, this paper shows that they are phonetically insensitive to the separation between [ye] and [y.] and they seldom make a precise pronunciation of diphthong [.y], which male speakers tend to pronounce to be [.] and female speakers to be [i].

The purpose of this paper is to provide a variety of useful classroom activities that can be implemented in teaching English in Korea through the multiple intelligences. This study shows how the multiple intelligence theory can be applied to teaching English. Thus, the writer provides a broad range of techniques and strategies for teaching students with different proclivities in the 8 intelligences in the English classroom.

"Xiang(like, such as, for example)" is a very widely used word in modern Chinese. But the ambiguous of it's parts of speech and the diversity of it's sentence structure give rise to a lot of difficulty in teaching and learning. In this Paper, the author reviews the grammar structure and application of "xiang", and suggests a grammar teaching text of "xiang" for the reference of teaching and studying.

This is a study of how some Korean words, such as "garam(??)", "garachida(??치다)", "greuda(그르다)", "geumeul(그믈)", "geusgi(그.기)", "gil(길ㅎ)", "ganalda (??다)", "geureus(그릇)", "gipda(깊다)", changed in their word-forms during the period from the 15 century to the 21 century. The study is based on the aspects of changes in word-forms during this period : ① a death of word-forms, ② a split of word-forms, ③ a change of word-forms, and ④ a retention of word-forms. The study also shows how some words of the 15 century changed in terms of a phoneme and meaning. Word materials in the old Korean books were used for analysis.

The understanding of discourse needs more dynamic linguistic interactions devoted to the investigation into intended meanings of specific forms of structure. The notion information helps to understand the contextual aspects of discourse, taking into consideration the interactional aspects of grammar. By taking some linguistic structures as examples, the present study aims to investigate in what ways information status is useful in the understanding of the linguistic forms considered here. For this, this study has the following purposes: 1) to explore some linguistic interactions of form and function investigating the several English formal structures, and 2) to see in what way a given structure can be related to a given communicative function or a set of functions in terms of information structure.

In more recent years, globalisation brings more opportunities to work with speakers from different languages and cultural backgrounds to Koreans in workplaces. Also, a number of Koreans gradually go overseas to find their career opportunities. This implies that they should be able to communicate with people from a variety of countries in English. Without knowing the sociolinguistic knowledge and conventions they may experience miscommunication or misunderstandings. In that sense, this paper shows the different theory and strategies of politeness in speech acts as one of the factors of miscommunication Therefore, Korean learners of English will be able to use appropriate sociolinguistic forms in contexts by perceiving the differences between them.

This study has surveyed representative classifications of languages of the world: genealogical classification, morphological typology and word order typology. The genealogical classification is based on the common features that are preserved in daughter languages. The morphological and word order typology is based on the surface structures and word order, respectively. And this study has also looked into the stages that changed SOV English to SVO English, in terms of word order typology and according to Stockwell's hypothesis.