{"title":"Perception and Production of English Consonants by Senior High School Students","authors":"Yinchun Pei","doi":"10.20849/jed.v6i3.1223","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"For Chinese students coming from different areas, they often encounter different English learning challenges in speaking and listening due to the influence from hometown accents. In comparison with Mandarin, the learners from Nanchang struggle with the pronunciation of /ɹ/ and /l/, /n/ and /ŋ/ sounds. Therefore, it is explored in this study whether Nanchang students face the same difficulties in listening and speaking when it comes to /ɹ/ and /l/, /n/ and /ŋ/. A total of 30 Nanchang senior three high school students participated in the perceiving and producing tests (comparing the English consonant minimal pairs: /ɹ/ and /l/, /n/ and /ŋ/), and they were invited to take interview about their personal attitudes and experiences about the learning of English consonants. It was revealed that there was no significant difference between producing and perceiving /ɹ/ and /l/, despite a significant difference in the performance on /n/-/ŋ/. Moreover, the perception of students about the English consonants shows a positive correlation with the production of the consonants. According to the interview, the lack of standard English learning resources was a major barrier to English study for students. The pedagogical implication is that the teachers in Nanchang area were suggested to provide pre-class speaking training, investigate the difficulty in English pronunciations for students, and teach pronunciation by playing the standard English video, which would be beneficial for senior high school EFL learners to improve the perception and production of English consonants.","PeriodicalId":29977,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20849/jed.v6i3.1223","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
For Chinese students coming from different areas, they often encounter different English learning challenges in speaking and listening due to the influence from hometown accents. In comparison with Mandarin, the learners from Nanchang struggle with the pronunciation of /ɹ/ and /l/, /n/ and /ŋ/ sounds. Therefore, it is explored in this study whether Nanchang students face the same difficulties in listening and speaking when it comes to /ɹ/ and /l/, /n/ and /ŋ/. A total of 30 Nanchang senior three high school students participated in the perceiving and producing tests (comparing the English consonant minimal pairs: /ɹ/ and /l/, /n/ and /ŋ/), and they were invited to take interview about their personal attitudes and experiences about the learning of English consonants. It was revealed that there was no significant difference between producing and perceiving /ɹ/ and /l/, despite a significant difference in the performance on /n/-/ŋ/. Moreover, the perception of students about the English consonants shows a positive correlation with the production of the consonants. According to the interview, the lack of standard English learning resources was a major barrier to English study for students. The pedagogical implication is that the teachers in Nanchang area were suggested to provide pre-class speaking training, investigate the difficulty in English pronunciations for students, and teach pronunciation by playing the standard English video, which would be beneficial for senior high school EFL learners to improve the perception and production of English consonants.
对于来自不同地区的中国学生来说,由于家乡口音的影响,他们在英语口语和听力方面往往会遇到不同的学习挑战。与普通话相比,南昌的学习者在/ r /和/l/、/n/和/ r /的发音上存在困难。因此,本研究旨在探讨南昌学生在/ r /和/l/、/n/和/ r /中是否存在同样的听、说困难。南昌市30名高三学生参与了英语辅音最小对/ r /和/l/、/n/和/ r /的感知和产生测试,并对他们的英语辅音学习态度和经历进行了访谈。结果表明,在产生和感知/ r /和/l/之间没有显著差异,尽管在/n/-/ r /上的表现有显著差异。此外,学生对英语辅音的感知与辅音的产生呈正相关。根据访谈,缺乏标准的英语学习资源是学生学习英语的主要障碍。建议南昌地区教师进行课前口语训练,调查学生的英语发音难点,并通过播放标准英语视频进行发音教学,这有利于高中英语学习者提高英语辅音的感知和产生。