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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2015.16.2.219

A Visual Study of the Phonemic Awareness  

Park, Heesuk (Department of Global Studies, Namseoul University)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.16, no.2, 2015 , pp. 219-225 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
phonemic awareness; minimal pair; spectrogram;
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