日本語母語話者による英単語読みの選択

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The correspondence between English spelling and pronunciation is complicated, which makes it difficult for both native speakers and non-native English learners to develop literacy. This is especially true for Japanese beginning learners of English because they have difficulty spelling or reading English words. When native speakers read unfamiliar words, they employ grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPC) and body-rhyme correspondences (BRC). Utilizing these methods will help learners to recognize, to pronounce and to encode English words. Coltheart and Leahy (1992) found that GPC was the strongest determinant among native speakers. Yamada (2005) replicated this experiment with Japanese university students; however, only existing words were used in this experiment, and it was not clear how the Japanese would read unknown English words. The purpose of this study is to investigate which encoding method (i.e., GPC or BRC) Japanese use when they read words they do not know. In this investigation, 105 Japanese university students were given a list of non-existing words and asked to listen to a recording that offered different ways to pronounce each word. Students were then asked to choose the alternative that best represented how they would pronounce each word. In addition, the subjects were asked which strategies they used to determine the pronounciation of the words. The results suggested that Japanese university students have a tendency to choose BRC more frequently than native speakers. These results may give us an indication of how spelling and reading rules should be taught in Japanese secondary schools.
2007-01-30

日本語母語話者による英単語読みの選択

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