英語 學習者의 音聲的 誤謬音에 關한 硏究 = A Study on the Phonetic Errors in English Made by Korean Students

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A language has its characteristic vocal system which the air is articulated differently according to how it modulate the vocal organs during the air flows through several vocal organs from the lung. Because the characteristic vocal systems between two languages are guite different from each other, it is very difficult for Korean students to follow to the native speaker´s voice exactly especially in the listening and in the speaking.
I supposed that the investigation and analysis of the problem factors in the vocal systems can suggest right teaching method for the effective education of the foreign language and so, in this report, I have tried to check and find out what kinds of the phonetic expressions can be made error by most of Korean students. For this investigation, 140 university students who are practising English in the language laboratory room have been checked out.
The contents of this study have been limited only in the fields of phonemic and in the phonetic in which much errors have been observed obviously in the course of English transfer to Korean. In the field of phonemic side, I have handled only the phoneme classification. For the phonetic field, the problems of the phonetic variations complied with the phonetic environments and the phonological rules were concerned with. In order to confirm of this investigation, the perception test and the production test have been fulfilled repeatedly. From the analysis of the phonetic errors which most of the students have made in this experimental investigation, following theoretical points can be suggested in this report.
1) In the case that one English phoneme which has distinctive feature does not exist in the same type of the Korean Phoneme, but exist only in the form of the allophones, the students have made errors easily to substitute an English sound to an inexact but the similar Korean sound.
2) The students have had a tendency to substitute an English sounds to the similar Korean ones unconscisouly when the English phonemes do not exist in the Korean phonemes or in the Korean allophones.
3) Most of the students have substituted the English allophones to the similar Korean phonemic systems according to the phonetic environment´s variation.
4) Because Koreans are accustomed to the nasalization phenomena in their babits
students made lots errors in speaking English with their nasalization habit.
5) Many cases have been observed that unnecessary Korean vowels have inserted
between the English consonant culsters or on final consonants of the English syllables, because Korean syllables do not have consonant culsters.
6) A lots of errors have been investigated that students have a tendency to emit English with their own wrong habits by disregarding the English phonetic symbols, because they have learned English by the means of reading and translation of the written spellings in the book for a long time.
As I had expected, these errors of the students were supposed to come from their own’s individnal customs in the course of English transfer to Korean and most of these errors have a regular and systematical ones.