Perception and Production of English Front Vowels by Taiwanese EFL Learners
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چکیده
The study aimed to compare the perception and production of English front vowel pairs: /i/-/ɪ / and /ɛ /-/æ/ and to identify their perception-production link by Taiwanese EFL learners through minimal-pair tests. Twenty Grade 6 elementary school students in Taiwan were randomly selected to be engaged in two tests with 4 front vowels (/i/, /ɪ /, /ɛ /, /æ/) embedded in ten monosyllabic words respectively for perception and production. The results revealed that the performance of Taiwanese EFL learners on the /i/-/ɪ /pair was significantly better than that on the /ɛ /-/æ/ pair both in terms of perception and production. To be more specific, the participants perceived and produced /i/ significantly better than /ɪ /. The production performance of /ɛ / was significantly better than that of /æ/ whereas the perception performance of /æ/ was slightly better than that of /ɛ /. A positive relationship between perception and production of these two front vowel pairs was also proven. Pedagogical implications of the study and suggestions for future studies were discussed in the end.
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