한국인 영어 학습자의 이음 습득에 관한 연구

A Study on the Acquisition of Allophonic Variations by Korean Learners of English

The current study presents a study of the phonetics-phonology interface in the learning of the English allophonic variations by Korean learners of English. One of the interesting and noteworthy things in methodology is that the current study looked at the data obtained from distance learning environments due to COVID-19. When it comes to the acquisition of L2 phonological processing, it might be expected to be challenging to gain positive learning effects through distance learning. This motivated the researcher to investigate how much students could benefit from the distance learning with respect to English allophones. The results showed that the students did exhibit positive improvements in realization of English allophones through distance learning. Regardless of allophonic variations, the students were able to correctly produce English allophones more frequently after distance learning. One interesting finding was that alveolar stops were flapped significantly more frequently by female students than male students, which corresponds to the findings from native speakers of English in previous research.