The effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent in the speech of EFL learners

• Authors: Ghazi Algethami
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper reports on a study that attempted to examine the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction of some English segments (individual sounds) on the degree of perceived foreign accent in EFL Arab learners’ speech. Nine Arab learners of English in an EFL (English as a foreign language) setting were assigned to two groups, experimental and control. Five utterances loaded with the taught segments were collected from both groups before and after instruction. While the experimental group received instruction on these segments, the control group did not. 13 native English listeners were recruited to rate all the elicited sentences for the degree of perceived foreign accent. The results did not show any effect of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent, as there were no differences between the ratings before and after the instruction.

Keywords

EN

Arab EFL learners; instruction; pronunciation; segments; foreign accent

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 253-263

Dates

published

2017-09-30

Contributors

author

Ghazi Algethami

• Taif University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rela-2017-0001