VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, IIANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYEN THI THOM A STUDY OF COMMON ERRORS MADE BY STUDENTS IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH CONSONANTS AT WORLDLINK ENGLISH CENTRE (NGHIEN CUU NHUNG LOI PHAT AM THUGNG GAP KHI PHAT ÂM CÁC PHU AM TIENG ANH CUA HOC VIEN TAI TRUNG TAM ANH NG WORLDLINK) M. MINOR PROGRAM THESIS Field: English Language Teaching Methodalogy Code: 60140111 1LANOL, 2014 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, ITANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYEN THI THOM A STUDY OF COMMON ERRORS MADE BY STUDENTS IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH CONSONANTS AT WORLDLINK ENGLISH CENTRE (NGHIEN CUU NHUNG LOI PHAT AM THUONG GAP KHI PHAT AM CAC PHU AM TIENG ANH CUA HOC VIEN TAI TRUNG TAM ANH NGU WORLDLINK) M. MINOR PROGRAM THESIS Field: English Language Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 Supervisor: Dr. 1a Cam Tam 1LANOL, 2014 DECLARATION: I, Nguyen Thi Thom, certify that this thesis 4 sivdy of common errors made by students in pronouncing English consonants at Worldlink English centre is the result of my own research.
| confirm this thesis has not been published or submitted for any other degrees. Researcher's signature Neuyen Thi Thom ABSTRACT The research was conducted to examine the most problematic English consonants facing the students at Worldlink English Centre. Consonantal phoneme pronunciation error data was collected from the recording using two types of tasks, namely reading out loud single words and reading out loud a story and analyzed ‘using narrow IPA phonetic transcription. The findings indicate that leamers at the centre have a tendency to substitution, deletion and insertion of sounds in syllable-initial, middle and final positions of the words.
Spocifically, it was found that the most common error was sound substitution which most often happened to the affricate, fricative and lateral sounds: {f/, /3/ and 4/. The sccond most. popular crror is called sound deletion, which frequently occurred to three ending sounds: /y/, /3/, f/, Last but not least amost frequent error named sound insertion appeared when the parlivipanls added the sound /s/ at the end of many words in the study. ‘he errors were identified in terms of both the interference of the mother tongue and inadequate knowledge of the articulation of the sounds.
From the results, some pedagogical suggestions were offered to improve the Linglish prommeiation of students at Worldlink lnglish Centre. Scope of the study ‘the main foous of this study is on investigating common errors made by students in promouneing iwerly four English consonanis. Basing on the results, the question of whether or not Vietnamese language influence the Lnglish pronunciation of the students at Worldlink English Centre is also discussed and answered, Participams are 20 non-English major students who are leaming basic prommeiation courses at Worldlink English centre. Textbook for teaching the course is English Pronunciation in Use — Elementary by Jonathan Marks 4, Methodology of the study The data was collected by employing the tool of recording the participants! pronuncialion of single words and slory reading.
All the data collected are prosented in the form of narrow transcription and then compared to the standard version to find out the errors. Details of methodology applied in the study are discussed in Part THI - Methodology 5. Design of the study To achieve the aims of the study, this paper is divided inla five chapters Part I: Introduction: An introduction consists of the rationale, aims of the study, scope of the study, method and organization of the study. Part II: Development Chapter I: Literature Review: This chapter provides the relevant bodies of imowledge and gives a brief overview of the literature on the research topic.
‘This includes key concepts of English pronunciation, intelligibility in prommeiation, English consonants, Vietnamese and English consonant comparison and contrast, Tnglish prommoiation errors and related key terms. Besides, the viewpoints on the titerference of the first. language to the second language pronunciation are also given. ‘The last part is the review of previous related studies.
Chapter II: Methodology: This part describes all the steps used to complete the rescarelt including wedepth mformation of participant scleetion, applymg data collection instrument, procedure of data collection and data analysis LIST OF TABLE, FIGURES AND ABBREVIATION LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Features of pronunciation Jigure 2: ‘Yhe manner of articulation Figure 3: The manner of articulation LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Bnglish Consonanl Phonemes Table 2: Victnamese initial consonants Table 3; Vietnamese final consonants Table 4: The initial consoramis of the Hanoian varicly Table 5: Similarities between English and Vietnamese Table 6 Overview of the consonant errors found in the data Table 7: Types of consonant crrars found in the data ‘Table 8: Sound deletion exrors Table 9: Sound substitution errors Tabic 10; Sound insertion exrors vì 3. ái co tá in eo ". 34 PART LIL CONCLUSION. LạHH HH1 HH H0 0e —.
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Method of the study 5. Design of the study,. 220222 re eb iv PART I: DEVELOPMENT. CHAPTERT: LITERATURE REVIEW.
The English Consonants 1. General description of consonants. cece cee ieee tees sec 1. Classification of Bnglish eonsonants.
The Vietnamese Consonants 1.4, A comparison of English consonant and Victnamesc consonant. The interference of the mother tongue to students’ Linglish pronunciation.6 Intelligibility and Intelligibility problems in pronunciation. Preview of Previous studics CILAPTERII: METIIODOLOGY. Selection of informants.
Dalla collection THISTUHLCHIHS. Data collection procedure 2. Dala analysis procedure CHAPTER IU: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION. TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION.
ch he ABSTRACT iii TABLE OF CONTENTS. iv PARTL INTRODUCTION. Aims of the study. Scope of the study We 4.
Method of the study 5. Design of the study,. 220222 re eb iv PART I: DEVELOPMENT. CHAPTERT: LITERATURE REVIEW.
The English Consonants 1. General description of consonants. cece cee ieee tees sec 1. Classification of Bnglish eonsonants.
The Vietnamese Consonants 1.4, A comparison of English consonant and Victnamesc consonant. The interference of the mother tongue to students’ Linglish pronunciation.6 Intelligibility and Intelligibility problems in pronunciation. Preview of Previous studics CILAPTERII: METIIODOLOGY. Selection of informants.
Dalla collection THISTUHLCHIHS. Data collection procedure 2. Dala analysis procedure CHAPTER IU: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION. ABSTRACT The research was conducted to examine the most problematic English consonants facing the students at Worldlink English Centre.
Consonantal phoneme pronunciation error data was collected from the recording using two types of tasks, namely reading out loud single words and reading out loud a story and analyzed ‘using narrow IPA phonetic transcription. The findings indicate that leamers at the centre have a tendency to substitution, deletion and insertion of sounds in syllable-initial, middle and final positions of the words. Spocifically, it was found that the most common error was sound substitution which most often happened to the affricate, fricative and lateral sounds: {f/, /3/ and 4/. The sccond most.
popular crror is called sound deletion, which frequently occurred to three ending sounds: /y/, /3/, f/, Last but not least amost frequent error named sound insertion appeared when the parlivipanls added the sound /s/ at the end of many words in the study. ‘he errors were identified in terms of both the interference of the mother tongue and inadequate knowledge of the articulation of the sounds. From the results, some pedagogical suggestions were offered to improve the Linglish prommeiation of students at Worldlink lnglish Centre. TH TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION.
ch he ABSTRACT iii TABLE OF CONTENTS. iv PARTL INTRODUCTION. Aims of the study. Scope of the study We 4.
Method of the study 5. Design of the study,. 220222 re eb iv PART I: DEVELOPMENT. CHAPTERT: LITERATURE REVIEW.
The English Consonants 1. General description of consonants. cece cee ieee tees sec 1. Classification of Bnglish eonsonants.
The Vietnamese Consonants 1.4, A comparison of English consonant and Victnamesc consonant. The interference of the mother tongue to students’ Linglish pronunciation.6 Intelligibility and Intelligibility problems in pronunciation. Preview of Previous studics CILAPTERII: METIIODOLOGY. Selection of informants.
Dalla collection THISTUHLCHIHS. Data collection procedure 2. Dala analysis procedure CHAPTER IU: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION. Scope of the study ‘the main foous of this study is on investigating common errors made by students in promouneing iwerly four English consonanis.
Basing on the results, the question of whether or not Vietnamese language influence the Lnglish pronunciation of the students at Worldlink English Centre is also discussed and answered, Participams are 20 non-English major students who are leaming basic prommeiation courses at Worldlink English centre. Textbook for teaching the course is English Pronunciation in Use — Elementary by Jonathan Marks 4, Methodology of the study The data was collected by employing the tool of recording the participants! pronuncialion of single words and slory reading. All the data collected are prosented in the form of narrow transcription and then compared to the standard version to find out the errors. Details of methodology applied in the study are discussed in Part THI - Methodology 5.
Design of the study To achieve the aims of the study, this paper is divided inla five chapters Part I: Introduction: An introduction consists of the rationale, aims of the study, scope of the study, method and organization of the study. Part II: Development Chapter I: Literature Review: This chapter provides the relevant bodies of imowledge and gives a brief overview of the literature on the research topic. ‘This includes key concepts of English pronunciation, intelligibility in prommeiation, English consonants, Vietnamese and English consonant comparison and contrast, Tnglish prommoiation errors and related key terms. Besides, the viewpoints on the titerference of the first.
language to the second language pronunciation are also given. ‘The last part is the review of previous related studies. Chapter II: Methodology: This part describes all the steps used to complete the rescarelt including wedepth mformation of participant scleetion, applymg data collection instrument, procedure of data collection and data analysis LIST OF TABLE, FIGURES AND ABBREVIATION LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Features of pronunciation Jigure 2: ‘Yhe manner of articulation Figure 3: The manner of articulation LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Bnglish Consonanl Phonemes Table 2: Victnamese initial consonants Table 3; Vietnamese final consonants Table 4: The initial consoramis of the Hanoian varicly Table 5: Similarities between English and Vietnamese Table 6 Overview of the consonant errors found in the data Table 7: Types of consonant crrars found in the data ‘Table 8: Sound deletion exrors Table 9: Sound substitution errors Tabic 10; Sound insertion exrors vì 3. Scope of the study ‘the main foous of this study is on investigating common errors made by students in promouneing iwerly four English consonanis.
Basing on the results, the question of whether or not Vietnamese language influence the Lnglish pronunciation of the students at Worldlink English Centre is also discussed and answered, Participams are 20 non-English major students who are leaming basic prommeiation courses at Worldlink English centre. Textbook for teaching the course is English Pronunciation in Use — Elementary by Jonathan Marks 4, Methodology of the study The data was collected by employing the tool of recording the participants! pronuncialion of single words and slory reading. All the data collected are prosented in the form of narrow transcription and then compared to the standard version to find out the errors. Details of methodology applied in the study are discussed in Part THI - Methodology 5.
Design of the study To achieve the aims of the study, this paper is divided inla five chapters Part I: Introduction: An introduction consists of the rationale, aims of the study, scope of the study, method and organization of the study.