한국어 고급 학습자의 발음 숙달도와 발음 학습 전략 사용 간의 관계 연구

A Study on the Correlation between Advanced Korean Learners’ Pronunciation Proficiency and Strategy Use.

This study aimed to investigate the use of pronunciation learning strategies of advanced Korean learners and the differences in the use of the strategies depending on their pronunciation proficiency. This study evaluated the pronunciation proficiency of 50 advanced Korean learners, by dividing it into fluency, comprehensibility, accuracy, and global foreign accent areas, based on recorded materials. The study also conducted the survey on the pronunciation learning strategies. The results showed that in the evaluation of the pronunciation proficiency of the whole groups, the score of global foreign accent was the lowest, while the score of comprehensibility was the highest. The strategy use of the top 30% and the lower 30% groups in the test, there appeared a difference in the use of the hypothesis testing strategies. For the whole groups, the use of the hypothesis testing strategies showed positive correlations with the detailed areas of the proficiency, indicating that the use of a specific strategy had correlation with the improvement of the pronunciation proficiency.