Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers
Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers

Author: Mohamed Fathy Khalifa

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1527545814

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This book is a contrastive analysis of Arabs’ errors in English pronunciation regarding segmentals—consonants, consonant clusters, and vowels—and suprasegmentals—main word stress. It also explains the main interlingual reasons behind these errors, and presents some teaching suggestions for surmounting them. The findings show that the subjects substitute their own Arabic sounds for unfamiliar English ones, producing incorrect English sounds. In addition, they apply Arabic main word stress rules instead of English ones, producing incorrect English stress patterns. The book also shows that English sounds and stress patterns that are both different and more marked than corresponding Arabic ones caused learning difficulties for the subjects.

Errors in English Pronunciation Among Arabic Speakers
Errors in English Pronunciation Among Arabic Speakers

Author: MOHAMED FATHY. KHALIFA

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-02-02

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9781527544307

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This book is a contrastive analysis of Arabsâ (TM) errors in English pronunciation regarding segmentalsâ "consonants, consonant clusters, and vowelsâ "and suprasegmentalsâ "main word stress. It also explains the main interlingual reasons behind these errors, and presents some teaching suggestions for surmounting them. The findings show that the subjects substitute their own Arabic sounds for unfamiliar English ones, producing incorrect English sounds. In addition, they apply Arabic main word stress rules instead of English ones, producing incorrect English stress patterns. The book also shows that English sounds and stress patterns that are both different and more marked than corresponding Arabic ones caused learning difficulties for the subjects.

Difficulties of the English Language for Arabic People
Difficulties of the English Language for Arabic People

Author: Sulaiman Mohammed

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 3668608814

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Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: The ultimate goal of most second language learners is to attain a native level of speaking. They want to be indistinguishable from native speakers. However, for many learners, this dream has remained a dream and has not come true especially in the area of pronunciation as native speakers usually identify them as nonnative speakers because of their accent. A large number of second language learners believe that the main difficulty they encounter when speaking the second language is pronunciation and consider this difficulty as the main source for their communication problems. English occupies a high status among world international languages, as it has become the language of diplomacy, trade, communication, technology and business. Thus, learning English provides the person with an advantage as an active participant in today’s world, opening new horizons to a better future. English as an international language has been taught in almost all countries in the world. In Arab countries English is a foreign language which is a compulsory subject to be taught in all schools from lower secondary to upper secondary schools. Even in some elementary schools, English is offered as an elective subject. However, we have seen that the proficiency in English of secondary school graduates still creates disappointment among teachers themselves as well as parents. The unsatisfying quality of English in Arab countries of course is related to different variables. I have tried to shed light on one of these variables here. That is to say, the causes behind the errors committed in pronunciation and grammar in English language by the Arab learners. The importance of investigating pronunciation and grammar difficulties stems from the fact that, it stands as an obstacle in communication. However, it is necessary, in this research, to find out why the aforesaid learners face difficulty in the acquisition of the phonological system and grammatical structure of any non-native language.

Analysis of Pronunciation Errors Arabic-speaking ESL Learners in New Mexico
Analysis of Pronunciation Errors Arabic-speaking ESL Learners in New Mexico

Author: Fatemah Khajah

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the difficulty that Arabic L1 speakers experience when acquiring the use of the voiceless labial plosive /p/ and the voiced labiodental fricative /v/ in English. This study investigates the differences between phonetic production of the new target sounds and phonemic perception of them. It also takes into consideration such distinctions as onsets vs. codas, and presents the target sounds in isolated words as well as authentic literature passages. Subjects were specifically selected to represent the Gulf Area dialect (such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq) because these are the dialects which traditionally have the most resistance to borrowing foreign words with /p/ or /v/. Sixteen native speakers of the Saudi Arabian, Kuwaiti and Iraqi dialects studying in the United States accepted an invitation to participate in this study. A word list and a reading passage were used to test the target sounds in order to generate data for both isolated words (in the case of the listening tasks) and words from authentic literary passages (in the case of the reading tasks). The results of this study strongly suggest that Arabic-speaking ESL leaners are able to learn these sounds as allophones of their homorganic counterparts, /b/ and /f/ respectively, before acquiring them as phonemes. The findings of the study are potentially of great importance to teachers of English as a second language, especially those who deal with monolingual Arabic speakers. Throughout this study I try to come up with various approaches to diagnosing such errors and provide the means to address them pedagogically.

Error Analysis
Error Analysis

Author: Bernd Spillner

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991-04-12

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 9027284792

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Errors are information. In contrastive linguistics, they are thought to be caused by unconscious transfer of mother tongue structures to the system of the target language and give information about both systems. In the interlanguage hypothesis of second language acquisition, errors are indicative of the different intermediate learning levels and are useful pedagogical feedback. In both cases error analysis is an essential methodological tool for diagnosis and evaluation of the language acquisition process. Errors, too, give information in psychoanalysis (e.g., the Freudian slip), in language universal research, and in other fields of linguistics, such as linguistic change.This bibliography is intended to stimulate study into cross-language, cross-discipline and cross-theoretical, as well as for language universal, use of the numerous, but sometimes hard to come by, error analysis studies. 5398 titles covering the period 1578 up to 1990 (with work in more than 144 languages and language families) are cited, cross-referenced, and described. The subject areas covered are numerous. For example: Theoretical Linguistics (Linguistic Typology, Cognitive Linguistics), Historical Linguistics (Language Change), Applied Linguistics (e.g. Speech Disorders), Translation, Mother Tongue Acquisition, Foreign Language Learning (Negative Transfer, Intralingual and Interlingual Errors), Psychoanalysis (Slips of the Tongue), Typography, Shorthand, Clinical Linguistics and Speech Pathology, Reading Research, Automatic Error Detection, Contact Linguistics (Code-switching, Interference), etc.

Teaching and Learning English in the Arabic-Speaking World
Teaching and Learning English in the Arabic-Speaking World

Author: Kathleen M. Bailey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1317818121

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Co-published with The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) An important contribution to the emerging body of research-based knowledge about teaching English to native speakers of Arabic, this volume presents empirical studies carried out in Egypt, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—a region which has gained notable attention in the past few decades. Each chapter addresses an issue of current concern, and each includes implications for policy, practice, and future research. Nine chapter authors are Sheikh Nahayan Fellows—recipients of doctoral fellowships from The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF). This volume is the first in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English Series, co-published by Routledge and TIRF.