DISCOVERING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES AND STRATEGIES: A CASE AT TRA VINH UNIVERSITY

نویسندگان

  • Thach Son Lei School of Foreign Languages, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam
  • Nguyen Thanh Trung School of Foreign Languages, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejfl.v8i2.5401

کلمات کلیدی:

pronunciation difficulties, EFL students, intonation, communicative competence, strategies

چکیده

Pronunciation can take a crucial role in communication because unintelligible pronunciation may cause the conversers to misunderstand. Therefore, obtaining a clear accent plays a vital role in understanding the speakers' intended meaning. With this importance, the current study attempted to investigate the learners’ perception of English pronunciation and explore the pronunciation difficulties facing Vietnamese EFL students. Then, it also attempted to discover learners’ ideas on how they would like pronunciation to be instructed. In order to have the data for the investigation, the study applied the quantitative method by using a 5-point Likert scale to measure the level of students’ agreement in these three mentioned domains of investigation. A group of 49 second-year EFL students was employed at the School of Foreign Languages, School of Southern Khmer Language - Culture - Arts and Humanity, Tra Vinh University. They are studying English as a foreign language, and their major is English education. The results revealed that students agreed that learning pronunciation is difficult and strongly agreed with the ideas exhibited in the questionnaire on how pronunciation should be instructed. These results are used as recommendations for learning English pronunciation, and limitations of the study were also included.

 

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بیوگرافی نویسندگان

  • Thach Son Lei، School of Foreign Languages, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam

    Thach Son Le is an English lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages, School of Southern Khmer Language – Culture - Arts and Humanity, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam. He earned his Master’s Degree in TESOL at Hawai’i Pacific University, Hawai’i State, USA. He has taught English to Vietnamese students since 2003. His interests include teaching pronunciation, translation, and discourse analysis.

  • Nguyen Thanh Trung، School of Foreign Languages, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam

    Nguyen Thanh Trung is a lecturer of English at the School of Foreign Languages, School of Southern Khmer Language - Culture - Arts and Humanity, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam. He earned his Master’s Degree at Western Sydney University, Australia. His research interests are English Language, Organization Behavior, Human Resource Development, and Business Management.

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2024-06-02

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دوره 8 شماره 2 (2024)

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