Factors Affecting Korean Learners" Perception of English Sibilants

• 영문명: Factors Affecting Korean Learners" Perception of English Sibilants
• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Jayeon Lim Misun Seo
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제14권 제3호, 201~219쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.09.30

영문 초록

  This study explores the perception of English sibilants by Korean learners. According to Schmidt (1996) and our pilot study, Koreans usually map all three English voiced sibilants (e.g., /z, ？, ？/) to one Korean sound (e.g., /ㅈ/) while perceiving voiceless counterparts (e.g., /s, ？, ？/) as several different native sounds (e.g., /ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅊ/). The study conducted an experiment of identifying English minimal pairs with sibilants to investigate the influence of such mapping relations between English and Korean sibilants and that of proficiency levels. In addition, positions of sibilants were included as another variable. The results showed that learners performed better in the identification task of English voiceless sibilants by showing higher accuracy and shorter reaction times than in distinguishing voiced ones. Learners" perception of sibilants was also influenced by positions of sibilants within words. Thus, the general pattern was that word-final sibilants caused less difficulty in the identification task than intervocalic or word-initial sibilants due to longer duration of word-final sibilants over word-initial or intervocalic ones. Learners" accuracy and reaction times did not improve according to their overall proficiency.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
Ⅱ. METHOD OF RESEARCH
Ⅲ. RESULTS
Ⅳ. DISCUSSION
Ⅴ. CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
APPENDIX

키워드

English sibilants L2 perception