Non-native speakers' misperceptions of English vowels and consonants: Evidence from Korean adults in UK  

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Tench, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 41 no. 2 (2003), page 145-173.
Fulltext: 41_02_Tench.pdf (191.33KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/41 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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There is very little evidence of research in the receptive dimension of phonological interlanguage-how non-native speakers manifest their competence in processng phonological input. A simple, but effective, experiment is described in this paper in which the receptive interlanguage phonological competence of non-native speakers is investigated. The target is British English vowel and consonant phonology for twentyKorean adults in higher education in UK. Their data indicates the major difficulties they display in perceiving British English consonants and vowels, as apposed to-and contrated with-producing them. This article discusses the paucity of receptive phonological analysis, expliots a parallel study in productive phonological interlanguage and produces a comprehensive analysis of the subjects' misperceptions (and their mispronunciations). It also speculates on the strategies they used when their interlanguage phonology proved inadequate. Finally, individual and group phonological profiles are provided, against which published pronunciation materials are measured-and shown to be inadequate in many cases. The study shows the importance of an adequate phonological competence and the importance of adequately designed teaching materials.

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