Download or read book The Pronunciation of English Vowels by Native Arabic Speakers written by Joel Ramez Atallah and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Pronunciation Difficulties Observed Among Native Arabic Speakers Learning to Speak English written by Dr. Jamil AbdulHadi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Pronunciation Difficulties Observed among Native Arabic Speakers Learning to Speak English is about the linguistic qualities involved in teaching the science of phonetics. Pronunciation is a concept in English language teaching that has been long overlooked and undertaught. Nevertheless, its importance is the difference between being understood and considered literate or being misunderstood and illiterate.
Download or read book Difficulties of the English Language for Arabic People written by Sulaiman Mohammed and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book English Pronunciation for Arabic Speakers written by Terence Frederick Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Errors in English Pronunciation Among Arabic Speakers written by MOHAMED FATHY. KHALIFA and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Phonetics of Arabic written by William Henry Temple Gairdner and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers written by Mohamed Fathy Khalifa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Examining Arabic and English Stops and Vowels written by Debbie Barry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Arabic and English Stops and Vowels: The Influence of Arabic on Voice Onset Times of /t, d/ and Vowel Formant Values in Arabic and EnglishThis is a final research project conducted for an Introduction to Phonetics course at Oakland University. The aim of the final project was to give the student an opportunity to use the techniques she had learned to analyze a foreign language of interest to her, and to analyze the English of a native speaker of that language. The author, a student in the class, conducted a contrastive analysis to see whether there were some areas of influence from the person's native language phonology on his English vowel system and pronunciation of English stops. The author focused on the contrast of Arabic and English, following a format set by the professor. (Oakland University bears no responsibility for the content of this study, and does not comment on the accuracy of the results. ~ Debbie Barry, 2014.)
Download or read book ENGLISH Pronunciation Intonation and Accent Reduction for ARABIC Speakers written by Peggy Tharpe and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revolutionary approach by an experienced, innovative teacher. There are no canned ideas copied from internet websites here. Everything is this guide, all the techniques, strategies, teaching tips, and practice exercises, evolved from decades of experience teaching Arabic speaking students of English. They are a result of years of trial and error, collegial conversation (and debate), and extensive research. This guide outlines the interference points between Arabic and English. Some of them are vowel and consonant sounds, and others are related to syllable stress, word stress, and intonation. There is a big difference in the function of vowels in our two languages and the role they play in defining words, stress patterns, rhythm and tone. Once you understand how American English and Arabic sound systems compare, you'll know where the two converge, and diverge. It's the areas of divergence that need attention, and that is what is covered in this guide.TOPICS INCLUDED: Comparing Arabic and English vowel and consonant systemsStrategies for teaching English vowels and consonantsComparing the structure of Arabic and English wordsSoundprints! How to teach the internal rhythm of English wordsComparing stress and rhythm in Arabic and EnglishTeaching to the Brain; Teaching to the BodyArabic and English Intonation PatternsResources and MaterialsIf you've been surfing the net, and seeing the same things over and over, but not getting any further along in your teaching success with Arabic students of English, then it's time for a new perspective. If you are thinking of becoming an accent coach, you absolutely should read this guide and learn these techniques. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Peggy Tharpe teaches English and specializes in pronunciation and prosody--the sounds, stress, rhythm and tones of English speech. In this guide, she shares what she knows about the sound systems of English and Arabic, and the instruction and study methods that work best for adults and young adults. This guide covers not just what to work on, but why it's a persistent problem for your students, and how to help them become more intelligible, more comprehensible, and, at the higher levels, more fluid and fluent. Get this guide and find out how to help your Arabic students reach their goals of communicating more easily and fluency in Englis
Download or read book Sensitivity to Consonantal Context in Reading English Vowels The Case of Arabic Learners written by Ruth Elizabeth Stein and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both experimental and anecdotal evidence document the difficulty Arabic learners of English demonstrate when learning to read and write in English. The complex phoneme-grapheme mapping rules for English may explain this difficulty in part, but the question remains why Arabic learners in particular have difficulty decoding English. This dissertation attempts to pinpoint what specific sub-word processes may contribute to this observed difficulty Arabic learners of English commonly experience. Vowel processing is an appropriate place to begin given the inconsistency of the grapheme-phoneme mapping rules for English vowels. The statisical patterns of the English language itself for the relationship between the onset and vowel or vowel and coda greatly enhance the likelihood of a particular vowel pronunciation, reducing the inconsistency for vowel grapheme-phoneme mappings. When reading, native English speakers use the context (preceding and following consonants) in which a vowel occurs to narrow the range of possible pronunciations, and thus are said to demonstrate sensitivity to consonantal context. For this dissertation, sensitivity to consonantal context in reading English vowels was tested in three groups (Arabic speakers, native English speakers, and speakers from other language backgrounds) using an experiment based on prior studies of native English speakers. Results indicate that non-native speakers of English show less sensitivity to consonantal context than native English speakers, especially in the greater use of the critical vowel pronunciation in control contexts. Furthermore, Arabic speakers show even less sensitivity to consonantal context than both the native English speakers and speakers from other language backgrounds, especially for vowel-to-coda associations. In fact, the results for the Arabic speakers for three of six vowel-to-coda test cases run counter to the expected outcome, resulting in what might be called an anti-sensitivity to consonantal context. The small number of participants in the Arabic group limits the ability to draw a strong conclusion, but that the results for the Arabic group run opposite the expected outcome for some test items warrants future study.
Download or read book Pronunciation of English Vowels 1400 1700 written by Robert Eugen Zachrisson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intelligibility Oral Communication and the Teaching of Pronunciation written by John M. Levis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Download or read book The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic written by Janet C. E. Watson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic. It is a pioneering work of scholarship, based on the author's research in the region. Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by some 250 million people in an area stretching from Morocco in the West to parts of Iran in the East. Apart from its great intrinsic interest, the importance of the language for phonological and morphological theory lies, as the author shows, in its rich root-and-pattern morphology and its large set of guttural consonants. Dr Watson focuses on two eastern dialects, Cairene and San'ani. Cairene is typical of an advanced urban Mediterranean dialect and has a cultural importance throughout the Arab world; it is also the variety learned by most foreign speakers of Arabic. San'ani, spoken in Yemen, is representative of a conservative peninsula dialect. In addition the book makes extensive reference to other dialects as well as to classical and Modern Standard Arabic. The volume opens with an overview of the history and varieties of Arabic, and of the study of phonology within the Arab linguistic tradition. Successive chapters then cover dialectal differences and similarities, and the position of Arabic within Semitic; the phoneme system and the representation of phonological features; the syllable and syllabification; word stress; derivational morphology; inflectional morphology; lexical phonology; and post-lexical phonology. The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic will be of great interest to Arabists and comparative Semiticists, as well as to phonologists, morphologists, and linguists more generally.
Download or read book Teaching Pronunciation written by Marianne Celce-Murcia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-13 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This course includes an overview of current theory and practice. The paperback edition offers current and prospective teachers of English a comprehensive treatment of pronunciation pedagogy, drawing on current theory and practice. The text provides an overview of teaching issues from the perspective of different methodologies and second language acquisition research. It has a thorough grounding in the sound system of North American English, and contains insights into how this sound system intersects with listening, morphology, and spelling. It also contains diagnostic tools, assessment measures, and suggestions for syllabus design. Discussion questions encourage readers to draw on their personal language learning/teaching experiences as they assimilate the contents of each chapter. Follow-up exercises guide teachers in developing a range of classroom activities within a communicative framework.
Download or read book English Pronunciation Drill for Arabic speaking Students written by W. G. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Production of Arabic Vowels by English L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Arabic written by Eman Saadah and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is known that adult language learners often struggle to accurately pronounce unfamiliar sounds in the target language, but the extent and duration of the linguistic experience is found to affect native-like production of target segments. In order to explore the variability in speech production between language learners, I compare vowel production between heritage speakers of Arabic (HSs) and English L2 learners. More importantly, this phonetic investigation asks fundamental research questions such as: Whether one or two phonetic/phonological systems coexist in the mental organization of developing bilinguals? If early childhood exposure to the target language as experienced by HSs affects phonetic learning later in life, e.g., when the HS is an adult learner in a traditional classroom setting? Moreover, do bilinguals of varying proficiency levels process their languages in the same way? Depending on the linguistic experience, prior studies of speech production show that bilingual speakers may possess one or two phonetic/phonological systems for the two languages. Furthermore, exposure to the L2 in early childhood facilitates attainment of native-like L2 phone production. Specifically, Flege (1987), Mack (1989), and Guion (2002) show that early bilinguals are capable of acquiring fine-grained phonetic detail of their L2 more than late learners. In the present study, 12 HSs0́4 6 experienced (EHSs) and 6 inexperienced (IHSs(0́4as well as 12 L2 learners0́4 6 advanced (AL2) and 6 beginner (BL2)0́4were compared with 6 native speakers of Arabic. Subjects produced 2 repetitions for each of 114 CVC monosyllabic words, embedded medially in a fixed carrier phrase. Formant measures of F1 and F2 were taken (in Bark) at vowel midpoint. Unlike the L2 learners, the results reveal that HSs have acquired two phonetic/phonological systems for Arabic and English, demonstrating the significance of childhood exposure to target sounds in later phonetic attainment. Specifically, more experience in the target language results in more accurate vowel production as shown by EHSs producing values that are closer to target vowels than IHSs and so is the case for AL2 compared to BL2 learners. Presenting a great challenge for language educators and language programs in the United States, implications from comparing these distinct populations (HSs and L2 learners) are discussed in relation to phonological theory, specifically, the intersection between second language research (SLA) and teaching of heritage language instruction.
Download or read book The Development of English Consonant Pronunciation and Related Perceptual and Imitative Skills Among Native Arabic Speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language written by John Laws Milton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
