Common serious mispronunciations of Indonesian learners stem from absent L1 phonemes and different sound categorisation in the L1¶
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q1 i? Moedjito and Ito (2008) attribute common serious mispronunciations to (1) absence of the English phoneme in the learners' mother tongue and (2) different categorisation of the same sounds in English and the L1. → Moedjito 2017
Evidence¶
Moedjito 2017¶
Moedjito. (2017). Improving EFL Learners' Pronunciation of English through Quiz-Demonstration-Practice-Revision (QDPR). English Language Teaching, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n1p10
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The article reports this attribution to Moedjito and Ito (2008) and illustrates it with Sasak-speaking participants confusing /f/, /v/ and /p/ (e.g., saying /paɪp/ for five) and treating /iː/ and /ɪ/ as allophones of one L1 phoneme. No new data on this is collected in the present study.
"two main reasons for these common and serious mispronunciations, namely (1) the absence of English phoneme in EFL learners' mother tongue, and (2) different categorization of the same sounds in English and EFL learners' mother tongue"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Phonological Awareness — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- A learner's mother language affects second language acquisition, particularly in production of absent sounds — a broader claim this one bears on
- A learner's first language predicts L2 phoneme perception more strongly than their proficiency level does. — related
- QDPR significantly improved Indonesian EFL learners' knowledge of the target English phonemes in a one-group pretest-posttest study — related
- QDPR significantly improved Indonesian EFL learners' ability to pronounce the target English phonemes — related
- Indonesian EFL teachers and students perceived segmentals (consonants and vowels) as the top priority for pronunciation teaching, contrary to the suprasegmental trend — related
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