Open AccessHelping Turkish EFL Learners with the Pronunciation of Four General British Vowels
Author(s) -
Serkan Şen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
elope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.182
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2386-0316
pISSN - 1581-8918
DOI - 10.4312/elope.16.1.145-157
Subject(s) - turkish , pronunciation , linguistics , orthography , vowel , perception , set (abstract data type) , psychology , arabic , english as a foreign language , computer science , mathematics education , philosophy , programming language , reading (process) , neuroscience
The paper presents a contrastive analysis of Turkish and English with respect to their vowel systems and orthography. The author then focuses on effective ways to teach four General British (GB) vowels, /i:/, /ɪ/, /ʊ/, and /u:/, to twenty Turkish university students of English as a Foreign Language. The paper presents a practical approach to teaching the perception and production of the four vowels through a set of classroom activities. As practice shows, Turkish students experience difficulties in the recognition and pronunciation of the observed vowels, which can be mitigated using the described activities.