Detail A Contrastive and Acoustic Analysis of Japanese EFL Learners’ Pronunciation of English Consonants   Oleh:  Kanzaki, Kazuo Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: Opening New Lines of Communication in Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University, 5-7 September 2013, page 211-218. Fulltext: A Contrastive and Acoustic.pdf (5.94MB) Ketersediaan Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 406 BAA 46 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1  Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel The purpose of this paper is to present some important facts for assessing Japanese EFL learners’ pronunciation of English consonants using the method of contrastive analysis, and to give useful clues for English pronunciation instruction. It deals with English consonants which are hard for Japanese learners of English to articulate because their Japanese pronunciation habits interfere with acquisition of English pronunciation. In order to confirm the results of the analysis, three Japanese learners’ productions of English consonants were acoustically analyzed. First I will show how English consonants are incorrectly pronounced in terms of manner and place of articulation, which is often the case with language transfer from Japanese to English. Secondly I will pick up English sound sequences which are extremely hard for Japanese learners to produce. This is due to the fact that such sequences do not exist in the Japanese sound system and the phonation mechanism is different between English consonants and Japanese ones. Lastly I will point out how the notion of “mora” in Japanese leads to Japanese learners’ incorrect pronunciation of English consonants. It will be made clear through this research that phonation of Japanese consonants is quite different from that of English consonants and that the mora-timed rhythm of the Japanese language affects learners’ pronunciation of English. In order to confirm the aforementioned points, the readings of five English sentences by three talkers (all Japanese university students) were acoustically analyzed. The results of the analysis show that the talkers’ mispronunciation of English consonants appears inconsistently. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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