Korean EFL Learners’ Production and Perception of English Sound Contrasts

Seo, Misun; Lim, Jayeon

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“…For example, Kaewchum (2018) showed that the link between the overall perception and production of the investigated consonants was generally weak positive. He also found that the correlations between the production and perception of /p/, /k/, /g/, /f/, /v/, /s/, /z/, and /ʃ/ were very weak positive; however, between producing and perceiving /t/, it was weakly positive; while, between the /l/ production and perception, it was weakly negative (see also Sakai & Moorman, 2018;Sioson & Chang, 2017;Zhang et al, 2021) Nevertheless, other studies proved no correlation between the perception and production of English vowels (e.g., Cheng et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2016) or consonants (e.g., Huensch, 2013;Pei, 2022;Seo & Lim, 2016) by EFL/ESL listeners. For example, Seo and Lim (2016) found that those with lower English proficiency exhibited greater accuracy in production than perception, denoting no link between the two modalities.…”

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Production and perception of English consonants by Yemeni EFL learners

Hadjah¹,

Hamzah

2023

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Many previous studies on the perception-production correlation focused mainly on transcriptions and native English speaker evaluations for production accuracy assessments; only a few included acoustic measurements. The purpose of this study is to examine the production and perception of six English consonants by Yemeni EFL learners of English using an acoustic measurement of L2 production in order to better understand the link between production and perception. It has three objectives: (1) To investigate the extent to which word position influences the accuracy of Yemeni EFL learners’ production of the target consonants, (2) to examine the extent to which word position affects their perception, and (3) to examine the relationship between the overall production and perception of the investigated sounds. A quantitative research method was employed to collect data from six Yemeni EFL postgraduate students from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). In the production tasks, the speakers were asked to produce seventy-two words with the target consonants three times in isolation (Experiment 1) and the other three times in a carrier sentence (Experiment 2). The researchers recorded the speakers’ productions with an iPhone and later evaluated them acoustically via Praat. In the perception test, an AXB experiment was conducted. The stimuli were read by a native male speaker of Australian English. The findings showed that word position significantly affected the production, yet not the perception of the target sounds. Moreover, an insignificant positive moderate correlation was revealed between the overall production and perception of the target consonants. Results have implications for L2 speech and pronunciation instruction and learning. Teachers may focus more on specific sound environments that lead learners to struggle while producing/perceiving particular English sounds.

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