Abstract
This study investigates the difficulties that Iraqi EFL learners face in uttering English British complex vowels; diphthongs and triphthongs in connected speech. It reports on the pronunciation test performed by the fourth level college learners whose Baghdadi Arabic is their mother tongue. Gender is of interest to this study to find out if females experience more hardship and perpetrate more mistakes than females or vice versa. Poor pronunciation leads to miscommunication, that is why this study is concerned with the phonology, and how words are pronounced within sentences, as being the main channel of communication is speech, especially with correct pronunciation and as that the Iraqi college learners’ most noticeable pronunciation mistakes are with English vowels chiefly diphthongs and triphthongs.
Article Type
Article
First Page
93
Last Page
114
Publication Date
3-15-2021
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
M, Shaymaa and Rezqallah, May Stephan
(2021)
"An Error Analysis: Iraqi EFL College Learners Problems in British Diphthongs and Triphthongs Pronunciation,"
Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences: Vol. 60:
Iss.
1, Article 10.
DOI: 10.36473/ujhss.v60i1.1295
Available at:
https://alustath.researchcommons.org/journal/vol60/iss1/10
