음성지도법을 이용한 일본어 청·탁음(淸·濁音)의 지도 효과

Abstract

This study aims to analyze Japanese unvoiced/voiced sounds with lots of misuses, when they are perceived by Korean learners of the Japanese language, and seeks to understand how the results could be applied to Japanese language education. The listening research examined the tendency of misuses in the perception of unvoiced/voiced sounds targeting 45 low/intermediate Korean learners of the Japanese language. The listening research entailed instruction and practice using the VT method (Nursery Rhyme stimulation) and minimal pair in order to identify more effective phonetic instruction methods. The listening research showed that Korean learners of the Japanese language had lots of misuses in the perception of unvoiced/voiced sounds, especially lots of misunderstandings of voiced sounds as unvoiced sounds. Also, regarding the misuse in accordance with the position of unvoiced/voiced sounds, there were many misuses of voiced sounds in the middle of words. In the listening research with instruction and practice using phonetic instruction, the number of misused unvoiced/voiced sounds was largely reduced in the group with instruction and practice compared to the group without them. Especially, the group with instruction using VT method showed the most remarkable decrease of misuses compared to the group with instruction using minimal pair, which showed the effect of VT method. Just as shown in the results above, it would be important to continuously instruct even for a short time after accurately understanding difficult phonetic items to learners and then introducing proper phonetic instruction methods.