The Major Difference and Difficulty: For Korean students in acquiring English pronunciation and Suggestion

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This article presents the major difficulty and difference for Korean L1 learners who have decided to learn English as a target language.

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ABSTRACT
I. INTRODUCTION

II. To investigate and analyze the differences between Korean and English which deals with the problems of the emergence of Korean sounds in pronouncing English.

III. To point out transfer errors and adaption of English pronunciation by Korean learners.
IV. To investigate the traditional way of teaching and learning condition about how to pronounce and to compare it with current situation in Korea.
V. To suggest how to overcome the problems and what phonemes Korean learners should focus on more.

VI. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

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본문내용

This article presents the major difficulty and difference for Korean L1 learners who have decided to learn English as a target language. This article was organized based on previous 3 articles. English has been a very important subject in Korea. However, there are huge differences between Korean and English, because of that factor, Korean student often struggle with acquiring English as a second language. In order to help the Korean learners, this study was performed. The purpose of this article is following: 1) to investigate and analyze the differences between Korean and English which deals with the problems of the emergence of Korean sounds in pronouncing English. 2) to point out transfer errors and adaption of English pronunciation by Korean learners. 3) to investigate the traditional way of teaching and learning condition about how to pronounce and to compare it with current situation in Korea. 4) to suggest how to overcome the problems, and what phonemes Korean learners should focus on more. Even though this article dealt with the only phonemes, /θ, f. v. ð/, which have no close equivalent in Korea, this article attempt to shed some light on how to study the most difficult sounds in English, because Korean learners want and need an appropriate instruction and they look forward to improve their pronunciation.

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