Essays about: "pronunciation problems"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words pronunciation problems.

  1. 1. Assessing oral proficiency in the EFL classroom : A qualitative study of teachers' understanding, experience, and assessment of oral production, and interaction in Swedish upper secondary schools

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Eva Smit; [2020]
    Keywords : Assessment of oral proficiency; communicative competence; EFL teaching; foreign language speaking anxiety; oral interaction; oral production; oral proficiency.;

    Abstract : Oral proficiency plays a crucial part in mastering the English language. It is, because of that, heavily debated among professors and teachers. Among teachers, uncertainty prevails regarding how oral proficiency should be taught and assessed. READ MORE

  3. 2. Swedish Second Language Learners’ Ability to Pronounce English Contrastive Consonant Phonemes

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Caroline Uggla; [2016]
    Keywords : Contrastive phoneme; Pronunciation; Sixth form;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate sixth form students’ pronunciation, and their exposure to English during their English lessons in school. The focus of the study is to investigate whether or not the students have problems with pronouncing the contrastive consonant phonemes that do not exist, or are rarely used in the Swedish language (i. READ MORE

  4. 3. Common L2 Pronunciation Errors

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen (LUT)

    Author : Sofi Centerman; Felix Krausz; [2011]
    Keywords : focus on form; speech sounds; pronunciation errors;

    Abstract : The present study focuses on students at two Swedish secondary schools and the pronunciation errors that are the most prominent during reception and production of specific speech sounds. The primary focus of this degree paper is to establish whether or not certain speech sounds such as e.g. READ MORE

  5. 4. "How mean can you be?" : A study of teacher trainee and teacher views on error correction

    University essay from Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi

    Author : Sofie Jakobsson; [2010]
    Keywords : Error correction; correction techniques; teacher beliefs; error types;

    Abstract : The present study investigates three teacher trainees and three teachers’ views on error correction during oral communication, and the similarities and differences between them. These six people were interviewed separately and they were asked six questions; the first five questions were asked to all six people but the last question differed between the teacher trainees and the teachers. READ MORE

  6. 5. "You must stay for dinner; we're having cud" : A study of the relationship between Swedish speakers' perception and production of English vowels

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Sigrid Sjösteen; [2010]
    Keywords : Phonology; L2 acquisition; L1 interference; transfer; speech perception; acoustic analysis; spectrographic analysis;

    Abstract : Learning a second language is different from learning our first one. A lot of rules from the first language, concerning e.g. grammar, intonation and phonology, are so firmly rooted within learners that they will transfer them to the new language regardless of whether they are correct or not. READ MORE