한국인 영어교사의 발화에 나타난 후어휘 음운현상

Postlexical phenomena in the utterances spoken by Korean English teachers

  The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of spectrographs from postlexical phenomena naturally produced in Korean English teachers" connected speech, in order to give pedagogical suggestions as to how to set up the steps of putting emphasis On the getting rid of the problems and some errors found in English teachers" pronunciation. Results are as follows: First, 5.6% and 33.3% only, respectively, of elementary English teachers (henceforth, the former) and secondary English teachers(henceforth, the latter) applied Palatalization. Second, 21.1% and 33.3% only, respectively, of the former and the latter applied flapping. Third, 50.0% and 75.5%, respectively, of the former and the latter applied deletion. Fourth, in lateralization by Korean phonology, 72.2% and ffi.9%, respectively, the former and the latter made mistakes in pronunciation. Fifth, 37.5% and 57.1% only, respectively, of the former and the latter applied devoicing differently from native speakers.