Abstract:In the process of English language acquisition by Vietnamese learners, speaking skills and pronunciation, in particular, tend to be the competencies most arduous to acquire. We assume that learners' weaknesses in speaking performance might be partially conditioned by the lack of confidence to express oneself verbally due to pronunciation difficulties. The objective of our article is to describe selected pronunciation issues of South Vietnamese speakers of English that we identified in our preliminary research … Show more
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