The purpose of this study lies in assessing Korean stop-consonants acquisition tendencies of Thais Korean language learners. As the communication is basically the process to accept or delivery information through phonetic perception and production, pr...
The purpose of this study lies in assessing Korean stop-consonants acquisition tendencies of Thais Korean language learners. As the communication is basically the process to accept or delivery information through phonetic perception and production, pronunciation takes an important part of such communication. Even though there are several factors influencing pronunciation of learners, the influence from mother language cannot be overlooked so that this study is to assess the influence of similarity level between the target language and mother tongue based on assumption on the effects of mother language for the phonetic acquisition of second languages. In addition, this study is to identify whether the length of residence variable, which has been considered as an influence factor for the second language acquisition in many previous studies, plays a role actually through experiments. To this end, this study conducted stop-consonants production test for speakers having Korean and Thai as a mother language; similarity perception test for Thai learners between Korean and Thai; and Korean production test of Thai learners and processed the test outcomes. Composition of this study is as follows;
Chapter I states the necessity and objective of this study and summarizes proceeding researches relevant to this study. As for the proceeding studies, Korean pronunciation acquisition related studies were approached by research tendency and then, learner's language category. It is followed by statements on the subjects of inquiry drawn up. The inquiry subject 1 of this study is to assess the level of phonetic similarity between Korean stop-consonants and corresponding Thai stop-consonants; subject 2 is designed to tell with which Thai phoneme Thais Korean language learners feel Korean stop-consonants are similar; subject 3 is to comprehend the relationship between Korean stop-consonants production of Thais Korean language learners and similarity of Korean and Thai; and subject 4 is designed to see whether Korean stop-consonants production of Thais Korean language learners varies depending on length of residence in the country of target language.
Chapter II is about theoretical background. The factors influencing phonetic acquisition of second language were studied by categorized into two areas. In relation with inquiry subject 1, 2 and 3, variables of mother language in phonetic acquisition of second languages and for subject 4, variable for length of residence in the country of target language are dealt.
Chapter Ⅲ states research methods for study subjects participating, procedures for research procedure flow, research tools used in three times of experiments and data analysis tools introducing phonetic analysis and statistical analysis methods.
Chapter Ⅳ proposes research outcomes. As for the summary of such outcomes, the test of stop-consonants product test of Korean and Thai shows that lax consonants of Korean do not have similar VOT with specific phonetics of Thai; but have similar pitch values and aspiration and tense consonants of Korean have similar VOT with specific phonetics of Thai; but do not have similar pitch values. But following test for similarity perception of Thai learners indicates that they perceived that lax consonants of Korean are not similar with their mother language of Thai; but aspiration and tense consonants of Korean are more similar with Thai. It means that they do not sensitively respond to the differences in pitch values. Finally, Korean stop-consonants production test of Thai learners shows that it might be considered as acquisition is made considering no significant differences from Korean groups in VOT and pitch values as for lax consonants; but acquisition is not made since there are differences from Korean groups for aspiration and tense consonants. It might be interpreted as in the pitch values to which learners do not sensitively respond, transformation from mother language is occurred so that makes not good influences on Korean production. Meanwhile the only case where statistical differences are made for acquisition depending on length of residence is VOT values of stop consonant ‘Ka’ of the soft palate and in other cases, there are no differences from length of residence. But it is the outcome only considering inferential statistics result while the descriptive statistics result shows that the group of long-experience living in Korea marks much similar figures with Koreans.
Last but not least, Chapter V summarizes and proposes study outcomes and states significance, limits and suggestions of this study. The significance of this study lies in the fact that it deals with physical aspect of phonetics along with the influence of mother language in consideration of intrinsic system with which learners accept relevant phonetics. Additional meaning of this study can be found in its attempts for pronunciation research of Thais Korean language learners, for which in-depth researches have not made sufficiently. Nonetheless it should be admit that this study also has many limitations since there were no fluent preceding researches so that based on limitations unveiled by this research, suggestions are made to ensure further developed following studies. Your research hopes that this study might make contributions to the development of pronunciation research areas for Korean language learners.
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