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English pronunciation
1. 1 English Pronunciation for students in University of Technology in Taiwan: Problems, Distracting Factors, and Learning Strategies Presenter: Lulu Chang Instructor: Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa Hsu June 1, 2011 Pronunciation N O Q S Z P J M A B D E F G H I K R V C L T W X Y U
3. Background English education are asked to be learned for almost all non-English speaking countries. Speaking English intelligibly or comprehensibly has become more and more important with globalization. (Ladegaard & Sachdev, 2006; Leontovich, 2005) 3
4. Background Non-native speakers of English are more likely to carry the pronunciation rules from their mother tongue into their English speech. (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams, 2003) 4
5. Background 5 Learner who has complete idea of the standard is able to express precisely by the various pronunciations so that it would be attribute the happening of self-correction. (Ellis, 1994)
6. Motivation 6 Poor pronunciation could have made non-native speakers experience the problems like complete breakdown in communication, ineffective speech performance, and false judgment about personal qualities, non-anticipatory reactions from listeners. (Celce-Murcia, Brinton, & Goodwin, 2000)
7. Motivation Learners who can speak with accurate pronunciation have better understanding of their interlocutors, express themselves sufficiently and own higher emotional quotient and motivation in learning and working. (Wu, 1993) 7
8. Content Introduction Literature Review 1. Phonology awareness 2. Pronunciation problems 3. Tongue twisters/ Songs 4. Purpose of the study 5. Research Question Methodology 8
10. Pronunciation problems-for Taiwanese students (examples) English Sound - Common Error - /th/ “thin” /s/ “sin” /th/ “thin” /f/ “fin” /r/ “rice” /l/ “lice” /r/ “church” /x/ “chuch” /sh/ “Shelly” /s/ “selly” /s/ “see” /T/ dead in taiwanese Native language will produce difficulty in target language learning. (Chen, 1999) 10
11. Tongue twister Minimal pair is what we so called tongue twister. The concept of minimal pair has effectiveness theoretically existence to benefits students. (Browyer, 2004) 11
13. Children songs Alphabet Sounds from Sounds Like Fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3S3OX6HQm4&feature=related 12345 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDSOMy7WN_Q Most of the children songs was designed for English learning. 13
17. Participants 17 60 students 1. Chaoyung university of technology 2. freshmen 3. non-English major 4. basic level
18. 18 Procedure Pre-test Word recognition test (at the beginning of semester) 1 semester Group 1 Tongue twisters Group 2 Children songs Same word recognition test (at the end of semester) Post-test
19. Instrument:Word recognition test used by Chaoyung English Center (100 words) words in the test were picked from: Ministry of Education Brown Corpus CEDAL CobuildEnglish Dictionary for Advanced Learners This word recognition test had been wildly used by researchers, Sun, L.-Y., Chang, C., and Ho, C.-S. (2002) 19
20. Samples of the word test Arm 1 0 1 Meaning 0 Total: 2 1 0 20
21. Statistical Analysis Descriptive Analysis What are Taiwan technical university students’ English pronunciation problems in segmental aspects? 1. What are Taiwan technical university students’ English problems in prosodic aspects? 2. What are the error types of Taiwan technical university students’ English pronunciation problems? 3. What are the factors responsible for Taiwan technical university students’ English pronunciation problems? 4. 21
22. What are the improvements in each group? And what kind of instrument help students perform better in pronunciation and in what way? 5. 22 Statistical Analysis T-test
