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    A Qualitative Study on Digital Media Use and Learners’ Perceptions in University English Reading Courses

    대학 영어 읽기 중점 수업에서 디지털 미디어 활용과 학습자 인식에 관한 질적 연구

    Kwak, Myunsun

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    This study qualitatively explores learners’ perceptions of using English digital media materials integrated with text-based reading activities in a college English reading … + READ MORE
    This study qualitatively explores learners’ perceptions of using English digital media materials integrated with text-based reading activities in a college English reading course to provide a nuanced understanding of their media-integrated experiences. The thematic analysis revealed that learners perceived English videos as “multimodal scaffolding” that facilitated global context comprehension and reduced cognitive load, rather than a direct substitute for text. However, perceptions regarding the timing of video presentation and subtitle use varied significantly based on individual proficiency and prior learning habits. Notably, a gap was identified between the instructor’s pedagogical intent and the students’ actual experience; learners often prioritized videos as a “psychological refreshment” and their engagement was heavily dictated by the direct relevance to assessment. These results suggest that for digital media to be truly effective, it must be structured as a task-oriented activity clearly aligned with learning objectives and evaluation systems. This research provides essential pedagogical implications for designing more reflective and learner-centered English reading curricula. - COLLAPSE
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    28 February 2026

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    A Study on the Obligatory Grammatical Categoricity and Indexical Functions of Korean Addressee Honorifics: Focusing on the “Thinking for Speaking” Framework

    한국어 상대높임의 필수적 문법 범주성과 지표적 기능 연구: 말하기를 위한 사고(Thinking for Speaking)를 중심으로

    Kim, Hyun Hyo

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    This study argues that Korean addressee honorific sentence-final endings, such as -supnita and -yo, constitute an obligatory grammatical category. Unlike previous studies, … + READ MORE
    This study argues that Korean addressee honorific sentence-final endings, such as -supnita and -yo, constitute an obligatory grammatical category. Unlike previous studies, it focuses on grammatical categoricity within Slobin’s “Thinking for Speaking” framework. While indexicality-based approaches explain interactional meanings, they often overlook why Korean speakers must determine relations prior to an utterance. This study demonstrates that the grammatical obligatoriness of sentence-final marking forces speakers to establish a ‘relational boundary’ before producing an utterance. The alternation between endings is analyzed as a grammatically constrained reorientation of relational attention, rather than a purely pragmatic strategy. By introducing BOUNDARY and ΔBOUNDARY, this study accounts for these alternations as a recalculation of relational judgment. A comparison with English highlights Korean’s typological significance, where relational judgment is grammatically mandated. - COLLAPSE
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    Perceptions and Language Attitudes of Native Korean Speakers toward Foreign Accents

    외국인 화자의 한국어 어투에 대한 원어민의 인식과 언어태도

    Park, Jaehee

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    This study examines the attitudes and perceptions of native Korean speakers toward foreign accents, and sheds light on the factors that influence … + READ MORE
    This study examines the attitudes and perceptions of native Korean speakers toward foreign accents, and sheds light on the factors that influence them. It also examines whether nationality or mother tongue influences their attitudes. To this end, the survey responses of 251 Koreans to the utterances of six foreigners were analyzed. The results showed that the order of preference was favorability > foreignness ≒ superiority > social competence, and the Koreans’ attitudes toward foreign accents were not influenced by the nationality or mother tongue. The results suggest that Koreans’ attitudes toward foreign accent are more intertwined with benevolent discrimination, combining favorability and an inherent hierarchy stemming from social identity, than with linguistic proficiency per se. This study also implies the educational necessity of fostering a culture that recognizes foreign accents as a linguistic variation rather than an incorrect language, and that focuses on meaning rather than accent. - COLLAPSE
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    A Conceptual Framework for Music-Induced Cognitive Load Reorganization in Lexical Processing
    Ju, Yunhyung
    This study proposes a conceptual framework explaining how musical stimuli influences language processing through neurocognitive modulation and cognitive load redistribution. Although prior … + READ MORE
    This study proposes a conceptual framework explaining how musical stimuli influences language processing through neurocognitive modulation and cognitive load redistribution. Although prior research has demonstrated that music affects emotion, attention, and working memory, these effects have typically been examined in isolation, with limited integration into models of lexical processing. To address this gap, the framework links music stimuli to emotional, attentional, and cognitive control systems and explains how their modulation reorganizes cognitive load during language processing. Music is conceptualized as a structured functional input defined by arousal, valence, structural complexity, and attentional demand. Rather than directly enhancing performance, music is proposed to reshape cognitive processing conditions across stages of lexical processing. By integrating insights from music cognition, neuroscience, and psycholinguistics, this framework provides a theoretically grounded basis for future empirical research on music-supported language learning. - COLLAPSE
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    The Perception of Canonical and Derived Stops
    Ahn, Miyeon
    Phoneme recognition is strongly influenced by semantic congruity among other linguistic factors, as listeners often perceive phonemes in ways that align with … + READ MORE
    Phoneme recognition is strongly influenced by semantic congruity among other linguistic factors, as listeners often perceive phonemes in ways that align with the overall meaning of a sentence. This study investigates how Korean-speaking listeners perceive canonical and phonologically derived stops in their native language with regard to contextual information: (i) lax-percept-inducing, (ii) tense-percept-inducing, and (iii) ambiguous contexts. A perception experiment was designed in which canonical and derived stops were extracted from natural speech and cross-spliced to create stimuli representing the three distinct conditions. The resulting stimuli were (i) congruent with, (ii) ambiguous in, or (iii) incongruent with the contextual cues when perceiving a canonical or a derived tense stop. The results showed that when instructed to identify each phoneme, listeners generally perceived phonemes in a manner consistent with the acoustic targets, were biased toward perceiving more canonical stops, and exhibited longer RT when perceiving derived stops. These findings suggest that listeners’ perception is sensitive to phonemic derivation as well as to contextual effects. - COLLAPSE
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    Contact-Induced Emergence of a Genitive Case in Colloquial Tajik: Evidence from Pivot-Matching
    Gafforov, Nurangez Shavkatovich
    This article examines the emergence of a replicated genitive construction in Colloquial Tajik (CT) that parallels the Uzbek genitive-possessive pattern in constituent … + READ MORE
    This article examines the emergence of a replicated genitive construction in Colloquial Tajik (CT) that parallels the Uzbek genitive-possessive pattern in constituent order and morphological marking. Unlike the inherited Persian/Tajik ezafe construction, the CT pattern is head-final, double-marked, and employs the Tajik direct definite object marker -ro with a genitive function. Based on natural speech data and elicited translations from Tajik-Uzbek bilinguals, the study shows that this development arose through pattern replication rather than morphological borrowing. The replication is enabled by pivot-matching (Matras and Sakel, 2007), whereby Tajik possessive enclitics align with Uzbek possessive morphology, and by the colloquial reduction of Uzbek -ning to -ni, which allows functional extension of Tajik -ro into the genitive domain. The findings provide a mechanism-level account of contact-induced morphosyntactic change in an Iranian-Turkic contact setting. - COLLAPSE
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    28 February 2026

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    The Impact of English Diary Writing on Non-linguistic Outcomes in Korean EFL Learners: A Meta-analysis
    Lee, Je-Young
    This meta-analysis investigates the impact of English diary writing on non-linguistic outcomes among Korean EFL learners. Synthesizing 34 cases from 23 primary … + READ MORE
    This meta-analysis investigates the impact of English diary writing on non-linguistic outcomes among Korean EFL learners. Synthesizing 34 cases from 23 primary studies, the results reveal a small-to-medium overall effect size (g = 0.436). Subgroup analysis indicates that diary writing is most effective in the affective domain (g = 0.450), particularly for enhancing interest and confidence. Social sharing emerged as a crucial moderator, with public sharing yielding the largest effect (g = 0.643), highlighting the power of audience awareness. Notably, meta-regression showed that learner age did not significantly influence these outcomes, suggesting that psychological benefits are accessible regardless of cognitive maturity. These findings emphasize the pedagogical value of English diaries as social, low-stress tools for fostering positive attitudes. The study recommends implementing socially shared diary practices to maximize learner engagement. - COLLAPSE
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    Covert Domain Restriction and Distributivity in Korean –ssik Across Humans and LLMs
    Sim, Rok, Song, Jiyeon
    This study investigates whether large language models resolve covert distributive meaning with human-like constraints. The analysis focused on Korean anti-quantifier -ssik ‘each’, … + READ MORE
    This study investigates whether large language models resolve covert distributive meaning with human-like constraints. The analysis focused on Korean anti-quantifier -ssik ‘each’, which permits Event (over occasions) and Type (over kinds) construals when the sorting key (SRTKY) is covert. Building on Song et al. (2022), who report a Type-biased default attributed to proximity between -ssik and a kind-based domain, a forced-paraphrase plausibility task is employed on 32 sentences crossing subject plurality, object plurality, and object definiteness (2×2×2). The results show that GPT-3.5 and GPT-4o display an overall Type bias in neutral contexts, consistent with proximity, whereas GPT-4 defaults to Event. Across models, morphosyntactic cues, especially object plurality, produce substantially larger preference shifts than in the human benchmark, suggesting heavier reliance on overt morphology and less human-like calibration in resolving covert distributive domains. - COLLAPSE
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