Errors in English pronunciation among Arabic speakers : analysis and remedies / by Mohamed Fathy Khalifa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khalifa, Mohamed Fathy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Pronunciation by foreign speakers.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

This book is a contrastive analysis of Arabs' errors in English pronunciation regarding segmentals--consonants, consonant clusters, and vowels--and suprasegmentals--main word stress. It also explains the main interlingual reasons behind these errors, and presents some teaching suggestions for surmounting them. The findings show that the subjects substitute their own Arabic sounds for unfamiliar English ones, producing incorrect English sounds. In addition, they apply Arabic main word stress rules instead of English ones, producing incorrect English stress patterns. The book also shows that English sounds and stress patterns that are both different and more marked than corresponding Arabic ones caused learning difficulties for the subjects.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Main Abbreviations and Symbols Used in this Study

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

References

Appendix A

Appendix B.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5275-4581-4

OCLC:

1137810646