This study investigated the effects of prompts as corrective feedback strategy on teaching /θ/ and /ð/ sounds to Iranian EFL learners. To achieve this objective, after 30 students studying English at a language institute took a placement test, the intermediate-level students were selected based on their scores on this test. They were randomly assigned to one experimental group and one control g...

This study investigated the effects of prompts as corrective feedback strategy on teaching /θ/ and /ð/ sounds to Iranian EFL learners. To achieve this objective, after 30 students studying English at a language institute took a placement test, the intermediate-level students were selected based on their scores on this test. They were randomly assigned to one experimental group and one control g...

Three English fricatives [θ], [ð], and [ʃ] have been confusing many Indonesian people when they pronounce words. Even though these three sounds are not present in Indonesian, found Arabic. The goal of the research is to reveal if Muslims, who qualified Quran teachers, able words correctly. subjects passive speakers but still get enough exposure at college. In order explore language phenomenon, ...

Interlanguage is the most fruitful issue in field of second language acquisition. In interlanguage phase, Indonesian learners English tend to alternate between two forms features express same function where a variation will be exhibited mark variable linguistic function. Variability phonology interesting subject investigate based on markedness differential hypothesis theory. This study aimed at...

English has assumed a new role in international communication in recent decades, that is, as a Lingua Franca (ELF) among speakers with different first languages. This study attempts to investigate and analyze Chinese university students’ perception and production of paired English fricatives from the perspective of ELF. By using a listening discrimination task and a reading task, respectively, ...