ACAS2023 Pre-Recorded Virtual Presentations

Indian and South Asian Studies

68777 | The Effects of Gender in Second Language Acquisition: A Study on Bangladeshi Adult EFL Learners

Laila Noor, University of Central Florida, United States

Suvrodeb Bepari, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Bangladesh

The paper investigated the effects of gender on second language acquisition from a sociolinguistics theoretical framework and a postmodern feminist approach. The data was collected from sixty-nine EFL students at a private university from various departments on their English language skills performance based on four skills: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. The evaluation process of four skills followed the measurement criteria of the IELTS examination. The MNOVA results showed no significant difference between male and female students' English language skills in terms of all skills together and their individual English language skills. This research will contribute to present genderbased studies in Bangladesh as there is no work based on the sociolinguistics and feminist theoretical framework. Moreover, the results call for further research with more participants and research on the pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary skills of EFL learners.

Japanese Studies

70766 | Between West and East: Japanese Mangas as World Literature

Alexandra Goitia, Illinois State University, United States

The following essay proposes intertextuality in Japanese mangas as a bridge between Europe and Asia, it proposes the relationship betwixt texts as an overpass between dichotomies and socio political space borders. In this sense and in virtue of focusing on interculturality and displaying a state of the matter as broad as possible, the following work seeks to part ways from the prevailing Eurocentrism in the academic field and to mention, both bibliographic sources and works and text fragments, from various countries and languages and cultivated by different authors (male and female). Hence, the intention of Between West and East: japanese mangas as World Literature will be to show different examples of intertextuality present in mangas, recognizing this literary device as both a literary strategy and a path towards the understanding between cultures.

Korean Studies

70242 | Selected Korean TV Series Depiction of School-themed Dramas: South Korean Educational System Issues

Raniel Billones, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

The main purpose of the study is to explore the South Korean Educational System that represents Korean families, teachers, administrators and students through selected school-themed Korean dramas. It also discusses various factors that affect the educational system in their own culture, tradition, belief, socio-economic status, and society. The researcher chose these TV dramas because they are among the most successful ever made and have had a substantial impact on Korean culture, as seen by appearances in different entertainment news and magazines. Those TV shows are also available through all video streaming service applications available in the Philippines, which are dubbed in Korean, English, and Tagalog. Furthermore, the study investigates the educational system's perception of chosen school-themed Korean TV dramas. The researchers utilize video analysis which offers video analysis as an academic distinct analytical advantage, but it also introduces new conflicts, many of which have yet to be thoroughly explored in the literature. The researcher of this study draw on their varied experiences evaluating a wide range of video datasets to establish theoretical and methodological guidelines and heuristics for the video analysis process. Moreover, the researcher will use a qualitative approach analyzing the drama. This study will certainly add to our vast collection of books and expertise. The outcomes of this analysis will benefit future researcher, particularly those who will undertake studies using the same or comparable framework. The researcher only utilize materials and resources available only in English and excluding the Korean language in outsourcing materials and logistical time framework.

70759 | War on Marriage: Issues of Married Buddhist Monastics in the Republic of Korea Military Hongmin Ahn, Harvard University, United States

Over the decades since the retreat of the Japanese after World War II and the subsequent battle to “purify” Korean Buddhism from Japanese “vestige", the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, the largest Buddhist denomination in Korea, has firmly established its identity as a legitimate heir and representative of the Korean Buddhism, supposedly unscratched by the Japanese Empire’s attempt to “taint” its body and soul with the influence of “already degenerated” Japanese Buddhism during the colonial occupation. In the eyes of the monks from the Jogye Order, the clerical marriage that was introduced and practiced by Japanese Buddhism was the most prominent sign of decadence and the subject of purification from the Buddhist monastery. Therefore, much of the Purification Movement waged by the Jogye Order after the Korean War centered around the clerical marriage practiced by some Korean monks, and the Order waged a battle against married monastic groups to take control of the Buddhist hegemony. However, oddly enough, in the newly established Buddhist chaplaincy corps in 1969, pressured by the solidifying Christian dominance in the military, the Jogye Order granted its monks who were commissioned as Buddhist chaplains permission to marry. Until the Order rescinded this permission in 2009, this special exception had continued to produce married monastics within the Order whose membership were betwixt and between. This paper seeks to explore the origin and history of this multi-layered, conflicted identity of the monks in the Jogye Order who vowed celibacy yet married later as Buddhist chaplains.

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