Phonetics Assignment About Mistakes That Students Make in Sounds in Isolation

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- Introduction: Our assignment is about pronunciation mistakes with first year student at the University of Oran. All students that we have chosen are called informants and each informant has it own number to distinguish him from the others. The informants are from different ages. This first year students were guide by us to read a text in form of a poem which has easy words to see how they are able to pronounce them, and what is their mistakes, and how to solve them. The analyses that we are going to present are about British pronunciation and how students can pronounce words and sounds correctly. We put questions to ten informants, five girls and five boys with different ages, and they are all students of first years at the University of Oran. We ask them to read a short text that is in form of a poem with no difficult words and a basic vocabulary which is supposed to be known by them. What we have to do is to analyze their reading so that we can get a conclusion of what is wrong with their pronunciations; therefore, we can easily conclude the way how they articulate the words and we will see why and how to solve the problem of articulation. The purpose from this assignment is to see why students made unacceptable mistakes, even if they are good students, they usually do some mistakes which are not allowed as first years student at the university. Why we are doing this? It is simply because, we know that student often neglect their pronunciation. They think that if they can communicate in English with other students in their classroom, they will be able to talk with native speakers too. They are totally wrong, because the native speaker will not understand them because they can not pronounce the words the way they should be pronounced. The problem is that they neglected also their proper learning, and they think that even if we do not learn phonetics, we

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