Collaborate to produce a list of errors your ESP learners make in English because of L1 interference. Focus on problematic sounds, word stress, sentence stress, intonation and features of connected speech. For example:
Word stress : learner produces........................ because..................................... should be..............................
Manuel Alvear
Pronunciation L1 interference.
Word stress: Leaners produce the word " Interesting" like the Spanish word that is similar in spelling " Interesante", but not in stress, so they should say /intristing/; not "Interesting" ,Students have problems with long and short vowels,Other problem they have is: / Sh/ versus /Ch/: Ship/ Chip Sheep/Cheap; for them it is always /sh/ and /i/ -/B/ versus /V/: Bowel / Vowel Ban/ Van
Pronunciation L1 interference Martha Azucena Sánchez de la Barquera L15.
Pronunciation problems: In words like use or usually the leaners pronounce the u as /U/ because that's the sound of it in their L1, Spanish. This sound should be pronounced / ju:/
Maria Veronica
Stress: learner stresses words in the last or next-to-last syllable because in Spanish there is usually only one stress whereas a word in English may have two or three stresses.
Cao Xia
problematic sounds:learners pronounce /θ/ as /s/ because in Chinese this sound doesn't exist.
Mario Castillo Ramos
Word stress: Ss stress the first syllable because the word is the same or very similar in Spanish: Hotel, guitar, relax, etc.
Iram H Shahzad problematic sounds : My students are Arabs and they feel very difficult to pronounce (p) as this sound doesnt exist in Arabic language . They pronounce as (b). e.g. pocket ----- they say bocket
Miriam Diaz My student have difficulty in the "s" at the beginning of a word. Many times they will require a run up and say "estudent", "estudy" and "eschool".
IiI
Alfredo Lopez Baez
My students try to pronounce every letter which is a problem and I have to explain that in English we pronounce 1 vowel per syllable. For example BEAUTIFUL.
Liz Gamboa
My students who are Spanish speakers tend to have problems in relation to consonant clusters....in English we have these kind of words speak, students, scenery, scene...etc, Spanish speakers tend to pronounce putting a vowel sound before them and pronounce as: espeak, estudents, escenery, escene...etc.
On the other hand, the sound /z/ doesn't exist in Spanish (Castellano in Peru) so, learners tend to pronunce "pence" the same as "pens" and we don't have difference between /b/ and /v/ so for learners it's a little bit complicated to make difference between "bowels and vowels"
Jacqueline M.Vinatier
My students really have a big problem with pronunciation, even we play cd´s almost everyday. Here are some of their problems:
- word stress: it is important of a correct word stress on the right syllable because if not, it makes a word unintelligible besides it change its sounds as well.
- "au" sound as in "law" they pronounce "au" "lau"
- "kn" sound as in knife (naif) , they pronounce "knaif
- "s" sound as in "student" "school", they say "estudent" "eschool"
Most of them pronounce the words as they are written, some do not complete the whole word for example "beautiful" they say "beauti"
Collaborate: Pronunciation
Collaborate to produce a list of errors your ESP learners make in English because of L1 interference.Focus on problematic sounds, word stress, sentence stress, intonation and features of connected speech.
For example:
Word stress : learner produces........................ because..................................... should be..............................
Manuel Alvear
Pronunciation L1 interference.
Word stress: Leaners produce the word " Interesting" like the Spanish word that is similar in spelling " Interesante", but not in stress, so they should say /intristing/; not "Interesting" ,Students have problems with long and short vowels,Other problem they have is: / Sh/ versus /Ch/: Ship/ Chip Sheep/Cheap; for them it is always /sh/ and /i/ - /B/ versus /V/: Bowel / Vowel Ban/ Van
Pronunciation L1 interference
Martha Azucena Sánchez de la Barquera L15.
Pronunciation problems: In words like use or usually the leaners pronounce the u as /U/ because that's the sound of it in their L1, Spanish. This sound should be pronounced / ju:/
Maria Veronica
Stress: learner stresses words in the last or next-to-last syllable because in Spanish there is usually only one stress whereas a word in English may have two or three stresses.
Cao Xia
problematic sounds:learners pronounce /θ/ as /s/ because in Chinese this sound doesn't exist.
Mario Castillo Ramos
Word stress: Ss stress the first syllable because the word is the same or very similar in Spanish: Hotel, guitar, relax, etc.
Iram H Shahzad
problematic sounds : My students are Arabs and they feel very difficult to pronounce (p) as this sound doesnt exist in Arabic language . They pronounce as (b). e.g. pocket ----- they say bocket
Miriam Diaz
My student have difficulty in the "s" at the beginning of a word. Many times they will require a run up and say "estudent", "estudy" and "eschool".
IiI
Alfredo Lopez Baez
My students try to pronounce every letter which is a problem and I have to explain that in English we pronounce 1 vowel per syllable. For example BEAUTIFUL.
Liz Gamboa
My students who are Spanish speakers tend to have problems in relation to consonant clusters....in English we have these kind of words speak, students, scenery, scene...etc, Spanish speakers tend to pronounce putting a vowel sound before them and pronounce as: espeak, estudents, escenery, escene...etc.
On the other hand, the sound /z/ doesn't exist in Spanish (Castellano in Peru) so, learners tend to pronunce "pence" the same as "pens" and we don't have difference between /b/ and /v/ so for learners it's a little bit complicated to make difference between "bowels and vowels"
Jacqueline M.Vinatier
My students really have a big problem with pronunciation, even we play cd´s almost everyday. Here are some of their problems:
- word stress: it is important of a correct word stress on the right syllable because if not, it makes a word unintelligible besides it change its sounds as well.
- "au" sound as in "law" they pronounce "au" "lau"
- "kn" sound as in knife (naif) , they pronounce "knaif
- "s" sound as in "student" "school", they say "estudent" "eschool"
Most of them pronounce the words as they are written, some do not complete the whole word for example "beautiful" they say "beauti"