The effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent in the speech of EFL learners

Algethami, Ghazi

dc.contributor.author	Algethami, Ghazi	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-04-03T11:45:13Z
dc.date.available	2018-04-03T11:45:13Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10-11	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24375
dc.description.abstract	This paper reports on a study that attempted to examine the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction of some English segments (individual sounds) on the degree of perceived foreign accent in EFL Arab learners’ speech. Nine Arab learners of English in an EFL (English as a foreign language) setting were assigned to two groups, experimental and control. Five utterances loaded with the taught segments were collected from both groups before and after instruction. While the experimental group received instruction on these segments, the control group did not. 13 native English listeners were recruited to rate all the elicited sentences for the degree of perceived foreign accent. The results did not show any effect of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent, as there were no differences between the ratings before and after the instruction.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;15	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en
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dc.subject	Arab EFL learners	en
dc.subject	instruction	en
dc.subject	pronunciation	en
dc.subject	segments	en
dc.subject	foreign accent	en
dc.title	The effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent in the speech of EFL learners	en
dc.page.number	253-263	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Taif University	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	ghazi.algethami@gmail.com	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/rela-2017-0001	en

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