Exploring EFL learners' awareness about the importance of weak forms in listening comprehension
| dc.contributor.author | Sahnoune, Zohra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bechoua | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-26T05:39:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-26T05:39:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study is an attempt to explore second year students' ability to process some aspects of connected speech on their overall capacity to understand naturally spoken english. The main concern of this study is to diagnose students' performance in listening to weak forms of english functional words .Students seem to have problems in perceiving reduced forms as a result of the language teachers' focus in teaching such forms on the production rather than perception . Additionally, students are seldom exposed to those forms, and most teachers do not use them while teaching, hence, students lack awareness, training and exposure. Through a questionnaire, and a Listening test composed of three activities, we tried to get students' impression about listening as a skill ,in general, and listening comprehension ,in particular, plus their knowledge about the use of weak forms of functional words in English. The first activity in the test is an attempt to depict the comprehension level of students regarding these forms and to elicit the perception difficulties that they are likely to face in listening to natives. The remaining ones were more practical, students were asked to apply their phonetic knowledge. The results confirm that almost all the tested students do not only have insufficient knowledge in phonetic transcription concening the use of weak forms of English functional words and are unaware of the significance of weak forms in listening, but also unable to perceive such forms. As a practical contribution, the study leads to some recommendations concerning the teaching of weak forms and the aspects of connected speech in general. | ar |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3499 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | ar |
| dc.publisher | university of Oum El Bouaghi | ar |
| dc.subject | Spoken english : comprehension | ar |
| dc.title | Exploring EFL learners' awareness about the importance of weak forms in listening comprehension | ar |
| dc.title.alternative | the case of second year EFL students | ar |
| dc.type | Other | ar |