Study of Consonant Pronunciations Errors Committed by EFL Learners

• Published in: English Literature and Language Review no. 55; pp. 48 - 56
• Main Authors: Akbar Khansir, Ali, Salehabadi, Afsaneh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 15.05.2019
• ISSN: 2413-8827; 2412-1703
• DOI: 10.32861/ellr.55.48.56

As the topic suggests, the research paper presents Study of Consonant Pronunciations Errors Committed by EFL Learners. Error analysis always tries to resolve language learners’ problems in acquiring second or foreign language setting. Learning to English pronunciation is perhaps as important as learning listening skill, speaking, and spelling. Errors in English pronunciation create several problems for English language learners in their works. In other words, most of the English language errors of pronunciation are due to the lack of knowledge of language learners. However, all the students in our sample are of age group (16-25) at Bushehr language institute and they are all Iranian nationals. In addition, all of them were female learners. An English pronunciation (consonant) test was used to get information about the knowledge of the learners in English pronunciation. Findings of this article indicated that the first and second hypotheses of this article were accepted, but the third hypothesis was rejected. However, the findings of this paper showed that the Iranian EFL students have problem to pronounce English sounds correctly.