• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제40호
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• pp.65-78
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• 2000

Korean learners of Chinese have diniculties in pronouncing Chinese tones which distinguish the meaning of words, because there are not such tones in Korean language. It makes Koreans hard to acquire Chinese. In this paper, I present the followings: First, I examine the characteristics of the tones pronounced by Korean speakers, exploiting the method of modern experimental phonetics. Second, I present the pedagogy of Chinese tones, considering the typical errors shown by the experiments on Korean speakers. The Pedagogy Presented in this Paper, which is based on the results of experiments, is not perfect. However, I expect this paper to serve as instrumental tools to help Korean speakers to improve their command of Chinese.

• 한국어교육
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.89-112
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• 2017

Grammar has long been regarded as an important element in foreign language learning and has received a lot of attention from foreign language learners and researchers. However, in the process of learning, learners will confront an increasing number of words some of which may have multiple meanings. It is not easy for language learners to memorize and master the correct use of these words, especially in terms of pragmatics. Some learners may use the grammar correctly, but their writing or utterance may feel unnatural in discourse. In Korean, '나다, 들다' are two basic verbs, but they have many different meanings which cause a lot of confusion among learners of Korean as a foreign language. In this article, the writer attempts to make a distinction between the collocations of the two verbs '나다, 들다' and provides an effective method for teaching the learners of Korean in China.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.316-324
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• 2020

It has experienced how difficult People with foreign language learning, it is to pronounce a new language different from the native language. The goal of various foreigners who want to learn Korean is to speak Korean as well as their native language to communicate smoothly. However, each native language's vocal habits also appear in Korean pronunciation, which prevents accurate information transmission. In this paper, the pronunciation of Chinese learners was compared with that of Korean. For comparison, the fundamental frequency and its variation of the speech signal were examined and the spectrogram was analyzed. The Formant frequencies known as the resonant frequency of the vocal tract were calculated. Based on these characteristics parameters, the classifier of the Supporting Vector Machine was found to classify the pronunciation of Koreans and the pronunciation of Chinese learners. In particular, the linguistic proposition was scientifically proved by examining the Korean pronunciation of /ㄹ/ that the Chinese people were not good at pronouncing.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2009

This study observes how the combined intervention program effects on the acquisition reading pronunciation of Korean phonological process words and the acquisition aspects of each phonological process rules to four Korean learners whose first language is Chinese. The training program is the combination of multisensory Auditory, Visual and Kinethetic (AVK) approach, wholistic approach, and metalinguistic approach. The training purpose is to evaluate how accurately they read the words of the phonological process which have fortisization, nasalization, lateralization, intermediate sound /ㅅ/ (/${\int}iot"$/). We access how they read the untrained words which include the four factors above. The intervention effects are analyzed by the multiple probe across subjects design. The results indicate that the combined phonological process rule explanation and the words activity intervention affects the four Chinese subjects in every type of word. The implications of the study are these: First, it suggests the effect of Korean pronunciation intervention in a concrete way. Second, it offers how to evaluate the phonological process and how to train people who are learning Korean language.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 중국인 한국어학습자들의 한국어 낭독발화에서 나타나는 리듬의 변화양상을 한국어 모국어화자와의 비교를 통해 분석하였다. 그리고 이를 통해 모국어화자와 구별되는 리듬의 물리적 속성을 고찰하여 목표어의 리듬 습득과정에서 나타나는 중국인학습자들의 발화 특성을 고찰하고자 하였다. 한국어와 중국어는 리듬 유형론적으로 다른 범주에 속한다. 일반적으로 한국어는 음절박자언어와 강세박자언어의 모습을 모두 보이는 것으로 알려져 있으며 중국어는 음절박자언어로 분류된다. 두 언어는 음절구조, 어휘강세나 모음약화 현상의 부재 등 음운론적으로 유사한 특성을 보이지만 세부적인 차이도 존재한다. 이런 맥락에서 본다면 한국어 리듬 실현에서 모국어인 중국어의 긍정적 전이와 부정적 전이가 모두 나타날 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 표준어를 구사하는 한국어 원어민화자 5명과 한국어 숙달도 고급 수준의 중국인한국어학습자 10명이 발화문을 녹음하여 분석하였다. 분석자료는 다섯 문장으로 구성된 한 단락의 담화이다. 중국인 한국어학습자들의 한국어 리듬구조를 파악하기 위해 %V, VarcoV, nPVI_V, nPVI_S값을 측정하였다. 측정결과 %V와 VarcoV의 값에서 두 그룹은 모두 음절박자언어의 특성을 보였다. 그러나 중국인학습자들은 한국화자와는 유의미한 차이로 낮은 %V와 높은 VarcoV를 보여 보다 강세박자언어에 가까운 리듬구조를 보였다. nPVI_S값에서는 유사한 면이 관찰되었으나 nPVI_V에서 두 그룹 간 유의미한 차이가 나타났다. 두 그룹에서 나타난 리듬구조의 차이는 무엇보다 모음 길이의 변동의 차이로 귀속될 수 있고 그 원인은 중국어에 존재하는 모음 위계의 차이에서 비롯되는 것으로 판단되었다. 이러한 모국어의 발화습관이 한국어 리듬구조에 영향을 미쳐 보다 강세박자언에 가까운 속성을 보이며 이로 인해 한국어 모국어 화자와 다른 청지각적 리듬 차이를 유발한다고 할 수 있다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.25-36
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• 2021

This study examined the perception and production of eight English fricatives /f/, /v/, /θ/, /ð/, /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, and /ʒ/ by thirty Chinese English majors and thirty Chinese middle school students through a fricative identification test, an intelligibility test, and a goodness rating test and focused on error patterns and the perception-production relationship. The results showed that substitution errors occurred frequently in the perception and production of English fricatives by both the English majors and the middle school students. Further, the error patterns were attributed to various influencing factors such as the negative transfer from Chinese consonant inventory, hypercorrection or overcompensation mistakes, deficiency of L2 teaching, and acoustic similarities. Significant overall correlations were found between the fricative perception and production by the two subject groups but were not manifested in all the eight fricatives, indicating that Chinese learners' perceptual competence of target fricatives was not necessarily tied to their productive excellence of those sounds in all cases. Furthermore, precedences of perception over production were incompletely manifested in the eight fricatives, which suggested that perception might not always be a necessary prerequisite for production. Additionally, subject group and vowel context differences were observed. The English majors performed better than the middle school students, both perceptually and productively, and the subjects' performances in perception and production varied when vowel contexts changed.

• Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.95-105
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• 2015

We developed a test of English silent word reading, following work by Mather, Hammill, Allen and Roberts (2004) and Bell, McCallum, Krik, Fuller, and McCane-Bowling (2007), in order to tap Hong Kong Chinese children's reading of English as a foreign language. We created one subtest of individual word reading and another of word reading contextualized within sentences; together, these tests require no more than 10 minutes for administration. In Study 1, we administered the entire test to 552 second grade Hong Kong Chinese children between the ages of 70 and 121 months old, from five different primary schools. The association between the subtests of English silent word reading and contextual reading was positively correlated (.78). In Study 2, 77 Hong Kong Chinese second graders were tested on our newly developed English silent word reading test, together with non-verbal IQ, an English word reading and a Chinese character recognition test (both read aloud). With age and non-verbal IQ statistically controlled, there was a significant correlation between English silent word reading and the more standard English word reading, read aloud, (.78); the association between English silent word reading and Chinese character recognition was also positively correlated (.49). This newly created test is a quick and reliable measure, suitable for both educators and researchers to use to identify poor readers who learn English as a foreign or second language.