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English Pronunciation Errors Made by Saudi Students
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Arabs often pronounce many English words wrongly which leads to spelling and writing errors. This paper deals with English pronunciation errors made by two groups of native Saudi Arab speakers. The students in the first group are of English major while the students in the second group are of Arabic major. Generally, Arabic speakers use direct transfer and interference from Arabic in addition to stress shifts in their pronunciation that are not recognized stress patterns in English. Also, there are some sounds in English that have no equivalence in Arabic, which leads to vowel and consonant errors. This study identifies the pronunciation errors made by Saudi students in pronouncing words of problematic nature to Arabs in general. The students in both groups made vowel insertion and confusion, orthography, stress, intonation, errors; but the more trained students in group 1 made less errors than the students in group 2.
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“In group 2, more students had similar confusion problems with vowels than the students in group1;”
§ English Pronunciation Errors Made by Saudi Students > 4.1 vowel confusion & vowel insertion
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“Finally, most students in this group had problems with the /ɛə, ei/ sounds”
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“while they made vowel confusion errors in other words.”
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“There was no confusion on the parts of the students between the /v/ and /w/ sounds in the words”
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“The students in both groups made vowel insertion and confusion, orthography, stress, intonation, errors; but the more trained students in group 1 made less errors than the students in group 2.”
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“The students also used the /f/ sound instead of the /v/ sound in the words "very" and "vanilla";”
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“Very-/ˈvɛrɪ/25 /vɪːrɪ/ 10”
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“Wait-/weɪt/5 /wɒt/ 15 No mixing between the w and v-No pronunciation-10”
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“Let-/lɛt/11 /lɪt/ 7,/leɪt/ 5”
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§ English Pronunciation Errors Made by Saudi Students > 4.2 Written form (orthography)
“Phase-/feɪz/0”
§ English Pronunciation Errors Made by Saudi Students > 4.2 Written form (orthography)
“/feɪz/ 11, /væz/ 8 No pronunciation-6”
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§ English Pronunciation Errors Made by Saudi Students > Additional information
“Lab-/læb/0”
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“/læb/ 25 All made errors”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ababneh, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Tabuk (SA)
- Corresponding author
- Ababneh, Islam
- ORCID
- Ababneh, Islam
- Venue
- European Scientific Journal, ESJ
- Publisher
- European Scientific Institute, ESI
- Published
- 2018-01-31
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 244
- ISSN
- 1857-7431 (ISSN-L)
- 1857-7881
- OpenAlex
- W2787416042
- Semantic Scholar
- fcac3aab9c0a8e9f105d3cfacc4155d9d1934ba6
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 3.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- European Scientific Journal ESJ (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Tabuk
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Keywords
- English pronunciation errors, second language pronunciation, vowel errors, consonant errors, stress errors, intonation errors, vowel insertion, vowel confusion, EFL learners, Arabic-English contrastive analysis
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