An acoustic analysis of Korean monophthongs of Khmer Learners of Korean
Number of Cambodian women who reside in Korea through marriage and number of migrant workers in Korea are on an increasing trend. Not only that, in order to strengthen the econ...
An acoustic analysis of Korean monophthongs of Khmer Learners of Korean
Number of Cambodian women who reside in Korea through marriage and number of migrant workers in Korea are on an increasing trend. Not only that, in order to strengthen the economic cooperation between both countries, the Korean government has engaged in various political and economic efforts that strengthened the relationship between two countries such as nominating Cambodia as a main candidate for Economic Development Cooperation Fund in 2003. Furthermore, the Korean government is providing an opportunity for Cambodians to work in Korea by taking EPS-TOPIK. The number of Cambodians who applied for this test this year are 51,003 which is approximately 10,000 more people than last year when 38,829 people applied to take the test. The relationship between Korea and Cambodia is strengthening, and although the difference in languages makes learning rather difficult, there’s been very little research on Khmer language that Cambodians use. Therefore, this research is conducted under the premise that students who are learning Korean in Korea must have difficulty communicating due to the reasons mentioned above. So the aim of this research is to compare and analyse vowel structures between two languages in order to spot common linguistic errors. By comparing the Korean pronunciation patterns of native Korean speakers with that of Cambodian students learning Korean, similarities and differences can be spotted in order to shine a light on common speaking errors that Cambodian students make when studying Korean.
Chapter 1 mentions the purpose and need for this research as well as a suggested way of conducting research. Then it proceeds to provide information on previous researches related to this topic before discussing the need for comparison and contrast when it comes to pronunciation education as well as the theoretical background on comparison analysis.
In chapter 2, in association with results from previous researches, Korean vowel structure and Khmer vowel structures are mentioned. This research is limited to, and therefore focuses on, single vowels and it compares and contrasts single vowel structures in both languages.
In chapter 3, Praat (voice analysis program) is used for Cambodian learners residing in Korea in order to diagnose and analyse pronunciation errors and to provide results of the experiment. First, the single vowels pronounced by native Korean speakers were reordered than compared with the long vowels and single vowels pronounced by Cambodian learners before formant values are picked out in order to compare and contrast the two languages. As the result of comparing long vowels and short vowels of both languages, it became apparent that Korean shower vowel [i] and Khmer short vowel [i] and long vowel [i:], Korean short vowel [e] and Khmer short vowels [??], [?], [e] as well as long vowel [e:], Korean short vowel [a] and Khmer short vowel [??] and long vowel [?:], Korean short vowel [o] and Khmer short vowel [o] and long vowel [o:], as well as Korean short vowel [?] and Khmer short vowel [?] and long vowel [?:], all do not have the same position of pronunciation.
Furthermore, it became apparent that Korean shot vowel [u] and Khmer short vowel [u] and long vowel [u:] are too similar to tell apart. As a result, when Cambodian learner is pronouncing Korean short vowels, the way [u] is pronounced is very similar to how a native Korean would pronounce [u]. In other words, when Cambodian learners are pronouncing Korean short vowels, most of the pronunciation errors for short vowels occur with the exception of [u] sound.
Each language has unique characteristics as well as a way of pronunciation. Recently there has been some research on educational methods for Korean pronunciation based on different countries as well as some research on how each language differs from the other. However, considering that there are many students residing in Cambodia who wishes to learn Korean and as the number of Cambodians living or working in Korea increase, the amount of such comparative research falls short. Teaching Korean pronunciation by incorporating characteristics of different languages is effective but in order to be able to do so, the teacher must have full grasp on the student’s native language. Therefore this research is significant because it’s for learners who speak Khmer when most of the research between Korean and other languages are for learners who speak Chinese, Japanese, English, etc.
The goal of this research is to allow Korean teachers to utilize its results for teaching Cambodian students learning Korean in an actual learning environment, and to allow Cambodian learners who wish to learn how to speak Korean properly. Furthermore, there’s an anticipation for further research which will collect objective and varied information on Cambodian students.
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