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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"English pronunciation"”.
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Teaching pronunciation through technology: Academic English pronunciation course
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN TAIWANESE ESL LEARNERS' PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
… ESL learners' perception and production of English interdental fricatives (IFs) with respect to three variables: perception errors, production errors, and three ranges of length of residence (LOR) in the US (LOR < 1 year; LOR= 3-4 years; LOR ; at least 7 years). Through the investigation, …
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The perceptions of voice teachers regarding English pronunciation difficulty among native Chinese, Japanese and Korean students
The phonological comparisons between English and CJK vowels and consonants were provided for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) singers with an effective means to sing English songs with proper diction. The phonological approach – describing the specific position of articulators – is a useful …
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Pronunciation Lesson Plans for Korean EFL University Instructors
… instructors who teach Korean ESL/EFL students in English pronunciation part.</p>
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Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language
How to improve the skill of speaking English is a major challenge for English learners in Taiwan nowadays. This project focuses on issues of pronunciation as the starting point to examine the problems of learning English, and issues of identity transformation in the language-learning process. Then …
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Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language
How to improve the skill of speaking English is a major challenge for English learners in Taiwan nowadays. This project focuses on issues of pronunciation as the starting point to examine the problems of learning English, and issues of identity transformation in the language-learning process. Then …
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Teaching Pronunciation Communicatively to Cape Verdean English Language Learners: Sao Vicente Variety
… is based on the researcher’s observation that pronunciation is underestimated in teaching English in Cape Verde in Sao Vicente Island. The Cape Verdean school program does not focus on pronunciation but it gives importance to grammar learning. As a result students show several difficulties in …
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Guidebook for ESL Teachers of Chinese Students
… working in the United States. Some of them find English pronunciation to be very challenging. The Guidebook is meant to be a tool for the teachers of Chinese speaking ESL students. English language instruction in China is often teacher centered, with the instructor lecturing and students taking …
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Peskotomuhkati latuwewakon (Passamaquoddy language)
… writing and reading via a phonetic form of English pronunciation. While all teaching methods and learning in any form is valid and valuable, we must first understand that the Passamaquoddy orthography is only a cut down version of the English orthography (using 17 characters plus an '). This …
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Phonological Awareness and Foreign Accent: A Handbook for German EFL Teachers
… perceive them as less trustworthy. However, the pronunciation of adult second language (L2) learners is extremely difficult to change, and L2 native-like pronunciation is rarely achieved after early childhood. The latest research suggests that explicit instruction about phonological awareness can …
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The Way South Vietnamese Pronounce English
… and equipment used. It also outlines the ten pronunciation lessons that were given. Chapter 2 is a short account of the phonemes of Australian English. Chapter 3 is an account of the phonemes of Vietnamese, summarising and comparing the analyses of Nguyen Dang Liem and Le Ba Thao (later form: …
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The Persistence of Learned Primary Phrase Stress Patterns Among Learners of English
… students who successfully completed the pronunciation course ESL 110/410, English Pronunciation for Academic Purposes at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Data were collected from oral tests administered before instruction (T1), after instruction (T2), and from an oral test …
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Examining the impact of homework-based instruction on EFL learners' ability to predict English phrase rhythm
… difficulties with the oral production of English, including the fundamental differences between Japanese and English (Cross, 2000), the segmental and word-level focus of current instruction at junior and senior high schools (Okita, 1999), and the propensity for English education in Japan …
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Speech intelligibility: a study of Iraqi EFL learners’ accented English
Intelligibility refers to a targeted pronunciation level in English which enables non-native English speakers to produce and understand English speech uttered by both native and non-native English speakers (Abercrombie, 1949; Gimson, 2001; Cruttenden, 2014; Munro and Derwing, 2006; Levis, 2016). …
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The effects of self-monitoring strategy use on the pronunciation of learners of English
… (SBI), though the evidence is very limited for pronunciation strategy instruction. For both general and pronunciation LLSs, most research has focused on identifying the strategies used by successful learners. When strategy instruction has been investigated, in most cases the strategies that were …