영어발음교육의 PBL적 접근: 영어교육과 1학년의 사례연구

This paper discusses a Problem-Based Learning(PBL) approach to English pronunciation education. Linguistics is one of the most useful subjects for the PBL approach, since various explanations and analyses can be presented to a particular phenomenon. As future teachers, students majoring in English Education need to think linguistically, which can be facilitated by implicit education like PBL. In addition, how to teach English is essential for them. In this study, 33 students taking an English pronunciation course were asked to identify particular English pronunciations that are hard for English learners, to analyze the problems of the education received for these target pronunciations, and to propose how to teach these difficult English pronunciations when they become teachers. This study found that students can accomplish the first two tasks―identification and analysis―fairly easily, but they have difficulty in finding appropriate solutions(i.e., how to teach the topic). Given that the students who participated in this study are first-year university students, however, it is expected that they will be able to find their own solutions as they progress further into their undergraduate studies.