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Faculty and Students’ Perceptions of ESL Academic Writing Ability and Implications
이영주 한국응용언어학회 2007 응용 언어학 Vol.23 No.1
To get a complete understanding of the writing ability required of students, we need to ask faculty members about what they perceive are the important qualities of good writing. In addition, we should be knowledgable about students’ perceptions of writing difficulties and how they cope with them. In previous studies, perceptions of academic writing proficiency were revealed indirectly through surveys. Instead of relying on survey methodology, this study examined faculty and students’ perceptions of ESL academic writing ability through individual face-to-face interviews across disciplines. Responses from faculty interviews showed that they valued discourse-level criteria rather than sentence-level criteria. Results of student interviews showed that they had various writing difficulties and they employed coping strategies such as memorizing and imitating good models of writing. Some practical implications for writing instruction in Korea are presented based on the findings about faculty and students’ perceptions of academic writing ability.
A Proposal for a New Theoretical Perspective of Language Test Malcontents: Three Stories
이영주,프레드 데이비슨 한국영어교육학회 2010 ENGLISH TEACHING(영어교육) Vol.65 No.4
This study reports three international graduate students who took an English as a Second Language (ESL) test at a large U.S. public university. Some test takers might be misclassified as non-masters, required to take ESL courses, and thus unable to register for a full load of content courses. The three test-takers perceived themselves to be mis-classified; we call them “malcontents.” These three students were tracked as they began their academic program, via in-depth, face-to-face interviews. Each was audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. We present narratives starting from the test-taking experience and reaching into the first year of graduate program. Two malcontents who were not convinced about their local test results at the beginning later accepted the results after their required ESL courses. Findings indicate that test contentment cannot be judged about the test alone, but can only be judged about the test in concert with any courses into which the test-taker is placed. The stories of malcontents must be identified because their experiences in subsequent courses are an important aspect of establishing the validity evidence; hence, this paper proposes a new theoretical perspective of language test malcontents.
Tissue Doppler imaging을 이용한 좌심실 수축기능의 평가
이영주,백광제,이경룡,홍대영,김진용 대한응급의학회 2007 大韓應急醫學會誌 Vol.18 No.4
Purpose: Accurate determination of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is important in the emergency management of patients with cardiovascular disease. In 10% to 20% of patients, LVEF cannot be accurately determined by 2D echocardiography because of suboptimal endocardial definition on fundamental imaging. Measurement of mitral annular velocity is advantageous because it is not dependent on endocardial definition. Methods: One hundred fifty-four consecutive patients with acute dyspnea who visited our emergency medical center from September 2005 to March 2007 were prospectively recruited. Patients with atrial fibrillation, valvular disease and regional wall motion abnormality were excluded. Mitral annular peak systolic velocity was obtained from the medial site with apical 4-chamber view by pulsed wave tissue Doppler imaging. LVEF was calculated by modified Simpson’s method for apical 4- and 2-chamber views. Results: The mean mitral annular peak systolic velocity was 7.2±1.8 cm/s (range 2.9 to 12.1), and the mean ejection fraction was 57.9±14.6% (range 17.9 to 83.9). The mitral annular peak systolic velocity correlated linearly with the ejection fraction (r=0.72, p<0.001): LVEF = 15+6× mitral annular peak systolic velocity(%). The optimal cutoff value of mitral annular peak systolic velocity for identifyng LV systolic dysfunction (LVEF <55%) was 6.7 cm/s. At this cutoff value, the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 84%, 85% and 85%, respectively. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.91 (95% CI: 0.85-0.96). The intra-observer variability was±0.4 cm/s (3%) and the inter-observer variability was±0.6 cm/s (5%). Conclusion: Simple measurement of mitral annular systolic velocity by pulsed wave tissue Doppler imaging can be easily applied to patient care and can be used to quantify LVEF accurately and with a high level of reproducibility.