아시아 상황의 영어 공통어 자질 연구

정현성(Chung, Hyunsong),이상기(Lee, Sang-Ki),김윤규(Kim, Yoon-Kyu) 한국음성학회 2016 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.8 No.2

This paper investigated the rhythmic features of speakers of English as a lingua franca in Asian contexts. A speech corpus of 150 conversations between speakers of English in Asia with different L1 backgrounds was collected and %V, ΔV, VarcoV, and nPVI-V of each speaker were analyzed. It was found that L1 difference of the speakers and the speakers’ daily use of English influenced %V, while the speakers’ daily use of English influenced ΔV. The gender difference of the speakers also affected the rhythm of the utterances in VarcoV. A weak correlation between the two speakers’ rhythm in each conversation was also found in %V and ΔV. No significant effects were found in nPVI-V. The results revealed that the speakers tended to accommodate the rhythm of their utterance to that of the interlocutors’. Further study on the speaking rate of the speakers is required to overcome some inconsistencies found in the results of the rhythmic metrics used in this study.

영어 발음의 ELF(English as a Lingua Franca) 패러다임에 대한 비판적 분석

정현성 ( Hyun Song Chung ) 한국교원대학교 초등교육연구소 2013 초등교과교육연구 Vol.17 No.-

As English has established its position as the global lingua franca, World Englishes (Kachru, 1985) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) paradigms have emerged. They focused on the use of English as a language of communication between speakers for whom it is an additional language. This paper examines the validity of the ELF paradigm in English pronunciation, issues of norms and reference models for English education within the framework of the ELF, and the suggestion of future direction for English education under the paradigm. Though the ELF paradigm is legitimate and unavoidable in the current global communication in English, it does not bring a lighter workload for teachers and learners of English because the ELF has a dynamic nature of English variations. In order to achieve the mutual intelligibility between speakers of different language background, they need to be equipped with both ENL (English as a native language) and ELF competence. This paper suggests that novice learners of English should be exposed to the ELF reference model receptively, while pursuing the native norm productively. On the other hand, proficient leaners should improve the mutual intelligibility in the ELF communication through integrated receptive and perceptive communicative activities.

한국인 영어학습자의 영어리듬구현 연구

정현성(Chung Hyunsong) 한국음성학회 2009 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.1 No.2

한국인 영어 학습자의 발음 정확성 자동 측정 방법에 대한 연구

정현성(Chung Hyunsong),장태엽(Jang Tae-yeoub),윤원희(Yun Weonhee) 한국영어교과교육학회 2006 영어교과교육 Vol.5 No.1

  The purpose of this research is to develop a device that can automatically measure pronunciation accuracy of English speech produced by Korean learners of English. Pronunciation accuracy will be measured mainly in two areas; suprasegmental and segmental areas. In suprasegmental area, intonation and word stress of Korean English learners will be traced and compared with those of native speakers by way of statistical methods using tilt parameters. Durations of phones are also examined to measure speakers" fluency of their pronunciations. In doing so, statistical duration modelling from a large speech database using CART will be used. For segmental measurement of pronunciation accuracy, acoustic probability of a phone, which is a byproduct of the forced alignment, will be a basis of scoring the accuracy. The final score will be a feedback to the learners to improve their pronunciation.

다언어 화자 간 담화 상의 영어 자음 발음 수용과 수렴 현상: 영국의 한국인 영어 학습자 사례

정현성 ( Hyun Song Chung ) 한국외국어대학교 언어연구소 2013 언어와 언어학 Vol.0 No.59

Phonological accommodation and convergence in interlanguage talk in English as a lingua franca context were investigated to identify the lingua franca core of Korean learners of English. It was found that some non-canonical forms of English pronunciation by Korean learners of English decreased in intelligibility when [kw], [gw] were pronounced without a glide; furthermore, [t] and [l] were replaced by [f], [dg] by [z], [θ] by [s], and [l] by [j]. Successful accommodation, however, was found in English fricatives, which improved intelligibility. Thus, it is suggested that while an ILT situation could work well for phonological accommodation of some certain consonants, analytic approaches are required to improve the intelligibility of English liquids in Korean English speakers.

직장 어린이집 영어 커리큘럼에 나타난 매체 활용 및 유아 음성 언어 분석

정현성(Chung, Hyunsong) 학습자중심교과교육학회 2016 학습자중심교과교육연구 Vol.16 No.10

본 연구는 어린이집 커리큘럼 영어 교육 프로그램의 개선 및 발전을 위해 2013년부터 2015년까지 3년 간 한 민간 직장 어린이집에서 개발하고 진행한 영어 교육 프로그램의 매체 활용 및 유아의 음성 언어를 분석한 논문이다. 매체 분석을 통해 활동 중 교사의 개입을 최소화할 수 있는 노력이 필요하고, 키워드로 동사를 자주 노출시켜줄 필요가 있음이 드러났다. 수에 대한 치밀한 활동 개발도 필요하다. 유아의 음성언어 분석을 통해서는 유아들의 외래어 발음이 화석화되지 않도록 노력할 필요가 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 도서 활동 평가 영상 분석을 통해 합창 반복의 필요성과 유아가 발화할 때까지 기다려주는 교사의 인내, 매체에 대한 교사의 신뢰가 필요함을 알수 있었다. In this research, we analyzed the use of media and the spoken language of children in an English curriculum of a private nursery school. The research was based on the three-year long longitudinal observation on the classroom activities and the evaluation which were conducted between 2013 and 2015. It was revealed in the analysis of the use of media that teachers’ interference should be minimized while the media is used during the classroom activities. Verbs should be exposed extensively to the children in the form of keyword presentation. More sophisticated activities should be given to the children to improve their ability in understanding and speaking numbers. In the analysis of the spoken language of the children, it was found out that more efforts are required to prevent the fossilization of children’s loanword pronunciation.

프라트를 활용한 영어 리듬의 측정

정현성 ( Hyun Song Chung ) 한국교원대학교 초등교육연구소 2015 초등교과교육연구 Vol.21 No.-

This paper introduces a method of measuring English rhythm using a speech analysis program, Praat. The stress-based rhythm of English can be analyzed by calculating the pair-wise variability index (VI) of consecutive syllables. In order to calculate the VI, individual syllables were annotated in Praat and the duration of each syllable was automatically measured using a Praat script. Then, the duration was converted into normalized duration, which can be used for the calculation of the VI. The higher the VI is, the more stress-based the rhythm is. The method introduced in this paper can be easily used by English teachers and researchers of English phonetics.

운율경계와 자음이 국어 모음의 길이에 미치는 영향

정현성 ( Hyun Song Chung ) 청람어문교육학회 2008 청람어문교육 Vol.37 No.-

타언어 화자와의 담화 상에 나타난 한국인 영어 학습자의 리듬

정현성(Chung, Hyunsong) 한국음성학회 2013 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.5 No.3

This study investigated the rhythmic accommodation of Korean English learners’ interlanguage talk. Twelve Korean speakers, 6 native English speakers and 6 non-native English speakers in London participated in multiple conversations on different topics which produced 36 conversational data in interlanguage talk (ILT) settings. 190 utterances from the 36 conversational data were analyzed to investigate the rhythmic patterns of Korean English learners when they communicated with English speakers with different language backgrounds. Save for the final-syllable, the normalized duration of consecutive syllables was compared in order to derive a variability index (VI). It was found that there was no significant variability in the measurement of the syllable-to-syllable duration for the utterances of Korean English learners, regardless of their interlocutor’s language background. Conversely, it was found that there was evidence that Korean English learners showed rhythmic accommodation in ILT when they conversed with non-native English speakers. The speaking rate became significantly slower when Korean English learners talked to non-native English speakers, than when they talked to other Korean English learners. Furthermore, there was a negative correlation between speaking rate and the VI in the utterances of Korean English learners in ILT.

아시아 상황의 영어 공통어 자질 연구: 분절음 특성

정현성 ( Hyun Song Chung ),김윤규 ( Yoon Kyu Kim ),이상기 ( Sang Ki Lee ) 한국외국어대학교 언어연구소 2016 언어와 언어학 Vol.0 No.72

This paper investigated the segmental features of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in Asian contexts. A speech corpus of 150 conversations between speakers of English in Asia with different L1 backgrounds was collected and analyzed. It was found that lack of vowel length difference before voiceless and voiced obstruents and substitution of obstruents by approximants significantly hindered the intelligibility of the pronunciation, which in turn led to a communication breakdown. Substitution of voiceless fricatives by voiced fricatives or otherwise, substitution of dentals with labio-dentals, and lack of flapping in intervocalic alveolar stops resulted in phonological accommodation on the part of the other interlocutor, while not causing any communication breakdown.