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A Visual Study of the Phonemic Awareness

음소인지에 관한 시각적 연구

  • Park, Heesuk (Department of Global Studies, Namseoul University)
  • Received : 2015.01.20
  • Accepted : 2015.04.15
  • Published : 2015.04.30

Abstract

This experimental study aims at understanding the Korean subjects' phonemic awareness in the English minimal pairs. For the purpose of the experiment, English listening comprehension tests were designed using minimal pairs and conducted among subjects, and the results of the tests were analyzed with the help of spectrogram. From the results of this study, I could find out three important things: First, subjects have difficulty in understanding and distinguishing English vowel minimal pairs. Second, among the English vowel minimal pairs, they had much difficulty in distinguishing between /ə:/ and /ɔ:/. Third, subjects could recognize the semivowel /w/ in words without any difficulty. In addition to this, I tried to analyze the results using the spectrogram, which helps to educate students effectively.

본 연구는 최소짝을 이용하여 한국인 피 실험자들의 영어자모음과 반모음의 음소구별능력을 살펴본 실험적 연구이다. 음소구별능력을 알아보는 실험의 방법으로는 청해시험을 활용하였으며, 거기에서 얻어진 결과를 통해 다음의 세 가지를 확인할 수 있었다. 첫째, 피 실험자들이 영어자음음소의 구별에 비해 영어모음음소의 구별에 상대적인 어려움을 겪고 있다는 점이다. 둘째, 영어모음음소 중에서도/ə:/와 /ɔ:/의 구별에 심각한 어려움을 겪고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 셋째로, 반모음/w/음의 유무에 따른 구별능력에서는 피 실험자 전원이 어려움 없이 구별해내고 있었는데, 이는 반모음/w/의 유무를 단어의 발음에서 쉽게 구별하고 있음을 보여주는 증거이다. 이러한 실험의 데이터 분석을 시각화함으로써 실험결과를 영어교육현장에서 활용할 수 있도록 스펙트로그램의 그림분석을 병행하였다.

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