영어발음교육 개선을 위한 교수법 연구

A Study of Teaching Method for the English Pronunciation Education

In English Pronunciation Education, the most common way of teaching students has been ‘Listen and Repeat’ method. This has been the traditional strategy of learning one s mother tongue. However when it comes to the acquisition of a foreign language, the situation is quite different. In this study, I ventured a new way to supplementing the Listen and Repeat method. With the listen and repeat method students have to go through unnecessary amount of trials and errors, In their struggle to acquiring a new pronunciation of the segmental (eg. consonants and vowels) and suprasegmental (eg. accent, stress, rhythm and intonation) of the foreign language out of his or her pronouncing strategies of the mother tongue, Many students give up half way through the process. Unfortunately this has been the most prevailing situation in learning any foreign pronunciation. I devised a new manual of English text written not in the normal spelling system. With this material, students can drill themselves by reading aloud the phonetic symbols, which proved very helpful to acquire English pronunciations. This method can be called ‘See and Read aloud’ method, which is supplementary but very productive in proficiency. After a contrastive experiment of two classes, this new method proved very productive, though it needs further studies.