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Ko, Young-Jin. “An Effective Teaching Method of English Pronunciation By Changing the Starting Position of the Articulator Tongue.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 36.3(2010): 171-200. There are no languages in the world having the same sound inventories. Even if the sounds of a language look exactly the same as the sounds of the other language, they are sometimes revealed as a sound having different quality. So to learn a foreign language, the learners have to know the sound differences between the foreign language they are learning and their mother tongues and overcome the differences between them. In the same course, Koreans who learn English as a foreign language have to know the differences of the sounds between Korean and English and overcome the differences between them. This paper examines the sound differences of the two languages, English and Korean, and ascertains the main cause that differentiates the sounds of the two languages. It is the difference of the starting position of an articulator tongue. So this paper suggests one teaching method of English pronunciation for Koreans in order to overcome the differences of the sounds of the two languages and pronounce English sounds like native speakers. The method is to pronounce English like speaking Korean by raising and retracting the tongue backward a little bit. Finally this paper attempts to prove the success of the method based on the surveys and the evaluation of English pronunciation of the students studying English pronunciation utilizing the new method. (Daejin University)