韓国人学習者のカタカナ語表記誤用実態 － 語彙レベル別に見られる誤用傾向 －

Abstract

In modern Japanese, katakana words such as foreign words, Japanese-made foreign words, and hybrid words are overflowing. Most foreign words are borrowed from English, but it is not easy for native Korean Japanese language learners to write katakana borrowed from English and converted into Japanese. This is because there are big differences in phonological systems in English, Japanese and Korean, and the original language is processed in a Japanese phonological system based on the “foreign word notation,” so it is easy to cause confusion. It is hard to say, then, that such a katakana education plan is systematically organized and instructed. In other words, katakana acquisition was left to the learner to some extent, and I questioned the connection between that and the level of Japanese language learning. Needless to say, the need to learn katakana is increasing due to the globalization and the remarkable development and IT-ization of SNS in recent years. The author believes that L2 learners need to learn to pronounce correctly, so this study focuses on marking and investigates the misuse of Korean Japanese language learners. Fifty-one students in the Department of Japanese Language and Literature at a Korean university were asked to write in katakana from Hangul to katakana, and the results showed the characteristics of misuse. We will analyze these results and discuss how we can apply the knowledge to katakana education in Korea.