The Influence of french graphemic rules on english pronunciation of S and SS
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2015
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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It is said that the good speaker of french is the good speaker of english. language mastery and proficiency are closely related. However, it is found that students who have a french linguistic background make errors when pronouncing english, especially the pronunciation of the letter and the combination / ss /. It is hypothesize that those errors are of an interlingual nature due to the interference of the french graphemic rules. In order to verify this hypothesis, test has been and ministered to a sample of 21 students. The results obtained suggest that students have failed to recognize the correct pronunciation of many words in english. As opposed to those on french. we believe that they are the words with which the students are not familiar. In order to confirm the hypothesized reasons behind such a failure a questionnaire has been administered to the same sample of students. The findings show that the primary cause of mispronunciation of the words is the interference of french language and they confirm the hypothesis. Finally, on the light of research findings, some suggestions are offered to enhance learners' levels of pronunciation.
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Foreign language, Second Language