The purpose of this study is to set the hierarchy of difficulty of the Korean consonants for Vietnamese learners of Korean according to Prator's theory based on the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis. In addition to that, it is shown that the difficultie...
The purpose of this study is to set the hierarchy of difficulty of the Korean consonants for Vietnamese learners of Korean according to Prator's theory based on the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis. In addition to that, it is shown that the difficulties for Vietnamese learners of Korean proceed directly from this hierarchy of difficulty.
Based on these finding the hierarchy of difficulty was constructed. First, [p], [t], [t<sup>h</sup>], [m], [n] would be Level 0. Two consonants [h], [l] would be Level 1, and thirdly Vietnamese consonants [f], [v], [s], [z], [x], [γ] will be Level 2; they don't exist in the Korean consonant system. Fourthly, consonants [t’], [s], [s’] would be Level 3, and consonants [□], [□<sup>h</sup>], [□’] that are not in the Vietnamese consonant system would be Level 4. Lastly, Korean [p<sup>h</sup>], [p’], [k], [k<sup>h</sup>], [k’] are Level 5.
Finally, the result of the learning order of Korean initial consonants for Vietnamese learners is “/ㅉ/-/ㄱ/-/ㅌ/-/ㄴ/-/ㅅ/-/ㅂ/-/ㅁ/-/ㅈ/-/ㅆ/-/ㅍ/-/ㄷ/-/ㅋ/-/ㅊ/-/ㅃ/-/ㅎ/-/ㄸ/-/ㄲ/-/ㄹ/”.