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The aim of this study is to examine the theories of language acquisition and the impact of interaction on children's language acquisition. It is well known that the three leading theories of language acquisition have thus far been discussed: behaviorism, rationalism and empiricism. For each of these theories, in this paper both syntactic and phonological points of view are examined with regard to children's development of language. It is also examined that interaction has a significant impact on children's acquisition of language. Additionally, it will be shown that there exists a natural order in children's language acquisition in accordance with their more and more experience as they grow up.

Focusing on the possibility and effectiveness of Chat GPT in literary translation, this study compared and analyzed the Chat GPT translation with other translations in terms of understanding and expression. The final Chat GPT translation, which was post-edited with appropriate prompts, showed a high degree of completion close to human translation in terms of verbal expression and context. However, the prospects for its use in literary translation through improving translation ability are positive, despite the limitations of not utilizing the beauty of literature as much as human translation.

The goal of this paper is to examine the current language situations from a typological point of view. Especially, the main focus goes on the better understanding of endangered languages through the revitalizing efforts. This paper consist of two parts. At first, we are going to look over the general understanding of endangered languages dealing with the following: Why languages disappear? For this, reviewing previous studies, it is observed that what factors have an impact on language loss and language vitality in terms of endangered status. Second of all, we try to get the better understanding of endangered languages to probe some cases of revitalized endangered languages. Through the observation of several revitalizing cases, we can say that language diversity is essential to the human heritage.

The aim of this study is to investigate the L2 Korean readers' strategies which might be influenced by the task types and the text types. So as to reach the goal, this study observed four advanced Korean learners' reading strategies using the think-aloud method. Four texts were given to each reader for this observation, and the participants performed the think-aloud while they read the each text. The results of the analysis were as follows. First, in the wholistic view, the frequency order of each strategies showed the literal comprehension is the bottommost goal of the readers. Second, the strategies which were influenced by the task types were the critical comprehension strategy, the literal comprehension strategy, the bottom-up inferential strategy, and the top-down inferential strategy. This showed the fact that the readers's strategy choices can be affected by the complexities of the tasks. Third, the strategies which were influenced by the text types were the critical comprehension strategy and the structural comprehension strategy. It can be interpreted that the reading strategies can be chosen under the influence of the text structures. From the results, this study suggested the pedagogical implications as follows. First, think-aloud method is still useful for the reading strategies observation in spite of it's limitations. Second, the advanced L2 readers are able to choose the most effective strategies under the different reading conditions. Third, both of the given tasks as a external condition and the text types as a internal condition influence the readers' strategy choices. This implies the fact that it is important to figure out the effective strategies upon the cognitive complexity of each task and the various text types and its typical structures.

This study is aimed at identifying the current trends in research on machine translation(MT) conducted by Korean translation researchers. Content analysis was undertaken for forty-nine papers published between 1997 and 2018 in the four local translation studies(TS) journals. In addition, a keyword analysis procedure of corpus linguistics was used to compare keywords of MT research in TS and engineering. It was found that the last two years witnessed a dramatic increase in the size of MT research. Overall, TS machine translation research was divided into three categories: high-level summaries of the MT landscape, MT production-centric research and MT consumption-centric research. MT consumption-centric research accounted for the majority of MT research in TS, positioning TS researchers mainly as consumers of MT systems. The most frequent subject of MT research in TS was the assessment of MT products and systems. The keyword analysis revealed that MT research in TS was characterized by its focus on the “guideline” and “training” of “post-editing” whereas MT research in engineering was distinguished by the efforts to “introduce” and “optimize” machine translation “models”. (Ewha Womans University)

The main purpose of the current study is two-fold: 1) to look over the two endangered language polices and 2) to explore the effective way of preserving endangered languages. First of all, we examine the two endangered languages from a language policy perspective: the Jeju language used in Jeju and the Gaelic language in Ireland. This is because the countries for each and local communities show great interest in preserving the language and make the language policy clear by law. Through the examination of two endangered languages with different linguistic situations and different geographical locations, it is possible for us to make the effective endangered language policy proposals in the future. The other is to suggest what kind of policy considerations are needed for endangered language conservation by comparing two endangered language policies.

This study aims to investigate the process of acquiring Korean particles by Chinese speakers who have previously learned Japanese as the second language(L2). The paper divides Taiwanese learners(Chinese speakers) who have previously learned Japanese as an experimental group and a control group(those have never learned Japanese), conducting experiments based on the questions related to Korean particles to examine the error patterns made by the learners. Through experiments conducted after 72 hours of learning for both groups, the study analyzes overall scores, common patterns of particle errors within each group, error frequencies, and the influence of the second language on the third language(L3). The findings compare the error patterns between the experimental and control groups, highlighting differences and their implications, and analyzing the reasons for these differences. Based on the findings, the study emphasizes the significance of considering learners’ prior language learning experiences in understanding and addressing error patterns in third language acquisition, providing insights for language acquisition.

This study attempted to analyze <Self-Learning Vocabulary in Subject>, a Korean supplementary textbook made for multicultural background learners, by reflecting the demand for materials of the learners and web-based books tailored to the current trend. To this end, the criteria and requirements presented in the relevant previous studies were used to prepare criteria for analysis, and analysis was conducted focusing on secondary textbooks. As a result of the textbook analysis, all non-learning composition section were fulfilled, but it was regrettable that vocabularyrelated information was not provided in the internal composition of learning. It was also regrettable that it did not reflect the intercultural perspective. In terms of web characteristics, there were complementary points such as not providing sufficient data and two-way communication. Therefore, this study proposed four complementary items based on the analysis results, such as expanding the Korean vocabulary for learning, considering learner characteristics, actively utilizing web characteristics, and supplementing guidelines.

The study of the relationship between language and a dialect of language, divorced from social factors of language variation, fails to accommodate the nature of language involved and authentic boundaries between linguistic varieties. As evidence of such an example, African American Vernacular English (AAVE) reveals the characteristics of a creole kin, not a nonstandard dialect of Standard English, which in turn implies that boundaries between language varieties are drawn not on the basis of the similar distribution of linguistic items alone. In view of AAVE, it is descriptively inadequate to attempt to prescriptively describe a variety of language in terms of some deviations from the rules of homogeneous invariant systems which are described within the traditional categorical view.

This study was geared to see what has been achieved so far and where future research should be directed in the field of child L2 learning, by critically reviewing the results of some experimental studies and case studies on child L2 acquisition to explain the real data of the child L2 development in Pinter(2011). We attempted to provide the current information about the researches in this field for the elementary English teachers and researchers. First, based on the recent findings in L1 acquisition we introduced some hypotheses to explain both L1 and child L2 acquisition. Second, we discussed what types of studies were conducted and what kinds of findings were drawn from them. Finally, we offered some suggestions for the possible direction or the promising areas of the further studies for the same field in Korea.