Mi Jeong Song

This paper aims to introduce a freshmen English course called College English at Seoul National University and to provide the overall evaluation of the course both quantitatively and qualitatively. The course was designed to improve students’ four skills in English in an intergrated way. In order to assess the effectiveness of the course, this study first examined several test results of the students who took College English in Spring, 2003. The tests used include both pre- and post-test results

The inhibitory effect of some traditional herbal medicines on the infectivity of rotavirus, which predominantly occurs in sporadic diarrhea in infants and young children, was investigated. Among the 34 kinds of herbal medicines tested, the fruit of Citrus aurantium had the most potent inhibitory activity on rotavirus infection. The active components of the fruit of Citrus aurantium were neohesperidin and hesperidin. Their 50% inhibitory concentrations were 25 and 10 microM, respectively.

The major purpose of this study is to explore the primary causes of article errors made by advanced Korean EFL learners. The participants were forty-one college and graduate students. Immediately after completing a fill-in-the-article test, the students participated in an interview where they were asked to state the reasons for their article choice for every item on the test. The qualitative analyses of the interview data revealed that misjudgments of referentiality and noun countability were th

The major purpose of the paper is to introduce one joint-course titled Global Understanding: English Cultures offered in the College English Program at Seoul National University in the spring (2009 & 2010) and fall (2009) semesters. In the course, undergraduate students from Seoul National University were linked with those from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and the University of British Columbia-Vancouver in Canada through video conferencing and instant messaging. Usi

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of strategy training on the improvement of reading proficiency of Korean EFL college students. The training procedure was based on Reciprocal Teaching Method developed by Brown and Palincsar (1984). It involves four concrete activities to teach comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring strategies explicitly. The four activities are summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting. Strategy training was provided to 68 s

The analytical method for 16 organophosphorus pesticides was developed in this study. The 16 organophosphorus pesticides were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) using on-line solid phase extraction (on-line SPE) with PLRP- S cartridge. Analysis of all analytes in the MS/MS was processed in the electrospray ioni-zation (ESI) positive mode. They are Azinphos ethyl, Chlorfenvinphos, Ethion, Famphur, Phosmet, Phosphamidon, Terbufos, Aspon, Chlorpyrifos-methyl, Crot

The study investigates the relative effects of two types of indirect written corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of English articles. Thirty-five high intermediate Korean EFL college students who were enrolled in three composition classes participated in this study. After the instruction on the English article usage, three classes (Class A, Class B, and Class C) received different types of feedback on their blog writings over the course of a semester. Both Class A and Class B received in

Based on Song (2006), this study investigated the relationship between learnability and starting age of English article acquisition. As a preliminary research question, it examined whether there is a difference in the ultimate level of English article proficiency between the early arrivals (AOA ≤ 12) and the late arrivals (AOA > 12). Then, this study compared the two AOA groups in their article test performance on 5 major types and 22 subtypes of the English article in order to find out what

Based on Song (2006), this study investigated the relationship between learnability and starting age of English article acquisition. As a preliminary research question, it examined whether there is a difference in the ultimate level of English article proficiency between the early arrivals (AOA ≤ 12) and the late arrivals (AOA > 12). Then, this study compared the two AOA groups in their article test performance on 5 major types and 22 subtypes of the English article in order to find out what typ

The first purpose of this study was to investigate if the amount of native language use affects the ultimate level of attainment in English articles. Twenty-eight native Koreans who immigrated to America at an average age of 5.45 were assigned to one of the two groups. The participants in the two groups were matched for age of arrival in America, chronological age, and length of residence, but only differed according to self-reported percentage use of their L1 per day. The participants in ‘the l

The study investigates the relative effects of two types of indirect written corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of English articles. Thirty-five high intermediate Korean EFL college students who were enrolled in three composition classes participated in this study. After the instruction on the English article usage, three classes (Class A, Class B, and Class C) received different types of feedback on their blog writings over the course of a semester. Both Class A and Class B received in