L1 to L2 Transfer of Korean Learners of English

Elsya : Journal of English Language Studies

English is being learned for several purposes by people globally embody some different accents; therefore, this study analyse the English pronunciation by Korean learners on English learning application classes since Korea is still having lack of perfect English standard pronunciation with its identity of developed industry country. Consequently, this study aims to investigates Korean-English phenomenon on Hilokal application as most English learners there by comparing the differences between original English sounds and Korean using descriptive qualitative from the audio recordings has been collected. The result shows that all 7 Korean learners (age range of 20-35) still produce some different sounds from the standard English ones noted as International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) because of the differences in the writing systems of the two languages and the alphabet of Korean itself. There are five places of articulations: labiodental, alveolar, post-alveolar, bilabial, and palatal sei...

Language Research, 2002

This study assesses the role of formal instruction in the acquisition of the English Irl and 11/ by native Korean (NK) speakers. Following the proposal by Flege (1981, 1987, 1991, 1992) that many L2 production errors have a perceptual basis, a theoretical instruction to explain the positionsensitive subtle phonetic differences between English and Korean liquids was given to NK speakers and the accuracy of their production of English liquids was evaluated by native English speakers. The results based on 18 NK speakers show that 1) a very short perceptual training, not naturalistic learning, was effective in the improvement of late learners' L2 pronunciation and its effect was maintained for a rather short-term period; but 2) the results varied according to the phonological position each segment occurred, and the perceptual training conducted in this study did not override prior L1 phonological learning. Based on the results of this study, the L2 theories and theories of perception and production were revisited.

말소리와 음성과학, 2012

Recent studies have shown that the stop system of Korean is undergoing a sound change in terms of the two acoustic parameters, voice onset time (VOT) and fundamental frequency (f0). Because of a VOT merger of a consonantal opposition and onset-f0 interaction, the relative importance of the two parameters has been changing in Korean where f0 is a primary cue and VOT is a secondary cue in distinguishing lax from aspirated stops in speech production as well as perception. In English, however, VOT is a primary cue and f0 is a secondary cue in contrasting voiced and voiceless stops. This study examines how Korean English learners use the two acoustic parameters of L1 in producing L2 English stops and whether the sound change of acoustic parameters in L1 affects L2 speech production. The data were collected from six adult Korean English learners. Results show that Korean English learners use not only VOT but also f0 to contrast L2 voiced and voiceless stops. However, unlike VOT variations among speakers, the magnitude effect of onset consonants on f0 in L2 English was steady and robust, indicating that f0 also plays an important role in contrasting the [voice] contrast in L2 English. The results suggest that the important role of f0 in contrasting lax and aspirated stops in L1 Korean is transferred to the contrast of voiced and voiceless stops in L2 English. The results imply that, for Korean English learners, f0 rather than VOT will play an important perceptual cue in contrasting voiced and voiceless stops in L2 English.

The current study intended to explore how English learning affects young Korean learners' acquisition of their L1. Three groups of young learners different in terms of English learning context participated in the study: EFL, Immersion, and ESL. In order to investigate the possible effects of L2 learning on L1 acquisition among Korean children, their acquisition of phonological processes, lexico-grammatical knowledge, and reading comprehension at discourse level were examined. The results showed that the impact of L2 learning varied across the areas of L1 acquisition, with the most clear-cut difference among groups in lexico-grammatical knowledge. The EFL and immersion children were found largely comparable in their L1 phonological development and reading comprehension. The findings from this study partly supported, but raised questions at the same time about, claims made in previous studies, implying that the impact of L2 learning on L1 acquisition could vary depending on specific *

Communication Sciences & Disorders, 2015

This work was presented at the 2014 Meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Orlando and funded by a research grant from the Wonkwang Digital University in 2014. Objectives: The present study examines whether Korean children and adults who have learned English as a second language (L2) produce Korean stops differently from Korean monolingual (KM) children with respect to voice onset time (VOT) and fundamental frequency (F0) and whether the age of L2 exposure is a critical factor in determining the L2to-L1 influence. Methods: Eighteen Korean-English bilingual (KEB) children and adults and eighteen KM children produced nine monosyllables /p h ε, pε, p * ε, t h ε, tε, t * ε, k h ε, kε, k * ε/ twice in a row. A total of 1,890 tokens were acoustically analyzed with Praat to obtain VOT and F0 values and were subjected to statistical analysis for group comparison. Results: Two threeway ANOVAs and follow-up statistics revealed that the VOT values of aspirated and lenis stops were significantly longer in KEB children and adults than in KM children and that normalized F0 values of lenis stops were significantly higher in bilingual than in monolingual individuals. Nonetheless, no significant group difference was found between KEB children and adults. Conclusion: The acquisition of L2 English appears to disturb a tertiary contrast of Korean stops in terms of VOT and F0, in a way that bilingual individuals produc ed lenis stops more aspirated-like, with increased VOT and F0 values, and aspirated stops with increased VOT values. The L2-to-L1 influence may not be significantly different between early and late L2 learners, if their length of residence in a L2 speaking community is similar.

Kum-young… for your good hearts and willingness to do FITA and BOTL. My special thanks go to the fantastic 4: Maria, Carly, Sarah, and my lovely officemate Ari, for their hearty encouragement, cheerful night-outs, and the farewell lunch. Thank you to the members of Faith Baptist Church and CBF. Thank you specially to Jake and Becky Mangold for their leadership and friendship. Also, I owe a debt of gratitude to all of the sixty-two participants who provided voices for this project, six glottal stop judges (Ann, Becky, Jamie, Lin, Sarah, Will), and two English proficiency level assigners (Marc and Molly). My lovely family, Mom and Dad and two sisters, and my dear old friends in Korea, Byung-Chul, Ji-Sung, Eun-Sook…, thanks to you all for your unfaltering love and support. I love you all. Finally, I give thanks to my Heavenly Father, for his love for us and his creation of the universe and everything in it, including human beings and their languages.

Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2015

Phonologically, Korean disallows several consonant sequences emerge in the syllable boundary. The occurrence of consonant sequences at this morphological domain is resolved by assimilation process. Hence, this study intends to discuss the pronunciation patterns produced by Malay speakers when speaking Korean particularly on consonant clusters. This study also intends to examine the influence of L1 phonological system of Malay when learning Korean as foreign language. Classroom learning observation in a Korean language class was carried out at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. This language class is offered to undergraduate students who are interested to learn Korean. Three students from level one to three from this class were chosen based on their competency. A list of Korean words was prepared before interview session with the students started. During the interviews, students were asked to pronounce the words in the word list. The pronunciations produced by the students were recorded and transcribed. The data analysis shows that coronal consonant clusters assimilate to other places of articulation namely dorsal and labial. The data also reveals that Malay speakers learning Korean incorrectly pronounce nasal-lateral assimilation found in Korean. The incorrect pronunciation produced by Malay speakers was due to the native phonological system. They tend to produce certain consonant clusters in Korean when the clusters are not in their native language. This study hence, provides an added value of phonological knowledge to language learners of Korean. In conclusion, this study gives exposure to Malay speakers who wish to learn Korean as their foreign language. Contribution/ Originality: This study contributes in the existing literature in the way that it provides the current understanding of how a particular phonological process applies in a language to get rid of consonant clusters which is disallowed in the language is not always adapted by others especially for foreign learners.

2006

Author/editor: Jae Jung Song. Contributing authors: Soonja Choi, Euen Hyuk (Sarah) Jung, Jeong-Young Kim, Hae-Young Kim & EunHee Lee, William O’Grady & Sun-Young Lee, Sunyoung Oh, Se Eun Krainz and Jae Jung Song. Commissioning Editor: Sajid Rizvi. ISBN 1872843611/9781872843612 (HB) | 187284362X/9781872843629. The book brings together original contributions from leading scholars in the field of Korean language acquisition research. Six of the eight articles in the book address various aspects of the L1 or L2 acquisition of Korean, with the remaining two dealing with Korean speakers’ L2 acquisition of English or providing a general discussion of L1/L2 acquisition in the context of linguistic typology. Frontiers of Korean Language Acquisition represents these scholars’ concerted effort to bring some of the pioneering work in Korean language acquisition to the wider international scholarly community. The collection will be of great interest to researchers in Korean language acquisition in particular and language acquisition in general. In addition, advanced students of first or second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, language and cognition, and general Korean linguistics will also find articles of interest in the collection. Additional materials will be uploaded here, please revisit or Follow.

This paper looks at the influences of Korean phonological structures and how this impacts on English teaching and learning in a Korean dominated environment