Strategies for Improving the English Pronunciation of the 1st Year “Translation-interpreting” Students

Șimon, Simona; Kilyeni, Annamaria; Suciu, Lavinia

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.222

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“…The learners should be informed that their unintelligible language could annoy the listeners; therefore, they should practice important and complex sounds to improve their pronunciation. Besides, pronunciation should be taught as an integral part of the spoken language and so on (e.g., see Al-Zayed, 2017;Begum & Hoque, 2016;Sara, 2015;Simon, Kilyeni, & Suciu, 2015).…”

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A Study on Vocabulary-Learning Problems Encountered by BA English Majors at the University Level of Education

Afzal

2019

SSRN Journal

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Proficiency in English language depends on the knowledge of its vocabulary possessed by the second and foreign language learners and even the native speakers. Though developing the vocabulary is vital, it poses several problems, especially, to non-native students of English. Students with a low vocabulary knowledge show weak academic performance in different courses related to the language skills, linguistics, literature, and translation at the university level of education. This study, in particular, aims to investigate the problems faced by English majors in learning the vocabulary at Prince Stattam bin Abdulaziz University (PSAU) in Saudi Arabia. It also puts forward some vocabulary-learning strategies to minimize the potential problems. The data consist of the responses of 100 student-participants (undergraduates) randomly picked up from five different levels (four, five, six, seven, and eight) of 4-Year BA English Program at PSAU. This quantitative study uses an online questionnaire, as an instrument, to collect the data. The results reveal that the English majors at PSAU face several problems in learning the vocabulary such as knowing the meanings of new words, pronouncing new words, using new words correctly, memorizing and spelling new vocabulary and so on. To its contribution, this study emphasizes the importance of learning the English vocabulary, draws students' attention towards it, highlights the problems encountered by students, and raises their awareness of the vocabulary. Future research may explore teachers' perspectives on students' vocabulary-learning problems and instructional methods implemented to teach the vocabulary in English language classrooms.

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A Study on Vocabulary-Learning Problems Encountered by BA English Majors at the University Level of Education

Afzal

2019

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“…All non-native learners of English should command key pronunciation features at segmental and suprasegmental levels, even if the "minimal phonological requirements" (Saito, 2012) or the Lingua Franca Core (Jenkins, 2002) depart from the traditional prestigious models (RP or General American accents) for English non-native learners. Studies dealing with a comparison of two phonological systems (Demircioglu, 2013;Nahiu, 2013;Şimon et al, 2015) are still being carried out because non-native learners must know the pronunciation specifics of the language they learn. However, an in-depth analysis of phonological development may predict future progress in pronunciation training (Franklin and McDaniel, 2016).…”

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Current Issues in Pronunciation Teaching to Non-Native Learners of English

Vancova

2019

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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Pronunciation plays an indisputable role in communication; even more so in communication between native and non-native speakers of English. The goals for pronunciation teaching have shifted from accent-free or native-like pronunciation to comprehensibility and teaching practices aimed at non-native English learners vary and are often based on teachers’ opinions rather than research findings. The paper aims to present the current topics in twenty selected research papers dealing with pronunciation teaching (teaching practices in the English language classrooms, selected segmental and suprasegmental features). The analysed papers indicate that a teacher’s good theoretical background can raise students’ awareness and the overall performance of pronunciation phenomena, whether at the segmental or the suprasegmental level. Students may benefit from different strategies applied to pronunciation learning, but traditional teaching methods are still prevalent in the contemporary English language classroom. The contribution presents partial results of the research project KEGA 001TTU-4/2019.

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“…The first one is that good phonological training for teachers and EFL learners can be very useful in order to raise awareness regarding pronunciation problems. Recent research has focused on how to deal with the persistence of phonetical errors in advanced learners and ways of improving pronunciation in a foreign language (Mompean & Lintunen, 2015;Riquelme Gil, et al, 2017;Simon, et al 2015). The most recent study encourages phonetic transcription combined with reading aloud to raise learners' awareness of their own pronunciation (Riquelme Gil et al, 2017, p. 17), which adds to the benefits provided by reading aloud claimed by previous researchers, such as strengthening grapho-phonemic correspondences of the L2, regardless the complexity of the orthographic system (Lázaro Ibarrola, 2011).…”

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Analysis of Pre-Service Foreign Language Teachers’ Incorrect Articulations: Frequency, Influence on Communication, and a Specific Corrective Strategy

Gómez

Navarro-Pablo

2020

PEC

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English Foreign Language (EFL) teachers need to be especially aware of their own articulatory errors and to manage strategies to overcome them. A specific corrective strategy using phonetic notation to destabilise the most recurrent articulatory errors to be applied to Spanish pre-service English Primary School teachers is presented. Firstly, the presence of incorrectly articulated sounds in a corpus of 238 minutes of recorded improvised production of 34 pre-service EFL teachers was identified. Incorrect articulations were classified in two groups, those that presented a higher frequency were classified as fossilised errors and those appearing only once were considered mistakes. A categorisation of the most frequent articulatory errors and their possible origins was offered. Errors were also examined attending the effect they posed on communication, if they hindered it, they were considered unintelligible. Results showed that more than 80% of fossilised incorrect articulations were perfectly understandable and did not disrupt communication. Even if these results can be considered positive, research shows that pronunciation highly influences the learning process of other skills, and that it affects learners in terms of confidence, social and work advancement. Therefore, to get rid of their own fossilised errors, future teachers need effective pronunciation skills training strategies. For that reason, a specific error corrective strategy based on phonetic notation and self-learning is proposed. Keywords: EFL (English as a foreign language), higher education, second language acquisition, teacher training

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Strategies for Improving the English Pronunciation of the 1st Year “Translation-interpreting” Students

Cited by 10 publications

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A Study on Vocabulary-Learning Problems Encountered by BA English Majors at the University Level of Education

A Study on Vocabulary-Learning Problems Encountered by BA English Majors at the University Level of Education

Current Issues in Pronunciation Teaching to Non-Native Learners of English

Analysis of Pre-Service Foreign Language Teachers’ Incorrect Articulations: Frequency, Influence on Communication, and a Specific Corrective Strategy

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