This paper argues that intelligibility should be a modest and realistic goal in current pronunciation teaching. Accordingly, I suggest that suprasegmental features such as syllables, stress, and rhythm should be taught explicitly in formal pronunciation classrooms to enhance the level of intelligibility. The lack of stress in Korean leads Korean EFL speakers to have lots of difficulties in speech production and perception. These difficulties arise mostly from Korean learners’ tendency to place prominence on every syllable and, in particular, on the first syllable of a word, which I dub the Initial Prominence Phenomenon in this paper. Rhythm, another important suprasegmental feature, plays the most significant part in enhancing Korean learners’ level of intelligibility. Furthermore, rhythm is treated as the most prominent key factor that characterizes Korean EFL learners as a foreigner.
목차
I. Introduction II. Some theoretical Considerations 1. Intelligibility 2. Two Approaches : Intuitive-lmitative and Anaiytic-Linguistic 3. Age and Pronunciation III. Linguistic Features of Pronunciation 1. Segmental Features 2. Suprasegmental/Prosodic Features IV. Conclusion Works Cited Abstract
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]