Pronunciation Problems Encountered by EFL Learners: An Empirical Study
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چکیده
Arabs often mispronounce many sounds of English due to a lack exposure as foreign language. This research article focuses on pronunciation problems encountered by Arab undergraduate EFL learners. It uses questionnaires, recorded speech samples, and tests part its methodology analyze learners’ performance orally through repetition drills help participants articulate the Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Learning Management System. emphasizes main question common undergraduates with skills. The study aims train students phonemic inventory imitation overcome miscues fossilized enhance their pronunciation. is significant because it proposes feasible pedagogical techniques for imparting initiating learners produce acquire more accurately, which will problems. To achieve this goal, impart initiate accurately. One findings revealed that our have improved in constant motivation willingness participate designed Blackboard. Recommendations further would be phonological awareness an aid learning EFL.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Arab World English Journal
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2229-9327']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol12no4.14