THE PROBLEM: Various learners of ESL have various problems regarding English pronunciation. Most languages have a five-vowel phonetic system and the complicated sixteen-vowel English phonetic system seems difficult to master for ESL learners. Moreover, ESL learners with Arabic L…
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This study examined the impact of the Internet and multimedia use on the pronunciation and oral communication skills of Arab students learning English in a university in southwestern United States. The study included a qualitative research using face-to-face interviews, an open-…
Most of the technology related research in the field of educational technology concentrates on the study of the effectiveness of technology in the enhancement of a certain task such as learning or teaching. Less work has been done to examine how users of technology feel about it…
The present study aims to investigate whether or not Saudi ESL learners have difficulty pronouncing and perceiving the final consonant clusters of English words in the coda position. The focus is on two points. The first is identifying the most difficult sound cluster in the wor…
The present study aims to investigate the production of the voiced labiodental fricative /v/ of Saudi Arabian speakers of English in view of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. The linguistic aspect focuses on the role of the position of the sound in words, initial and fina…
This study investigated the production of the English voiceless bilabial stop /p/ in three word positions (initial, medial, and final). By a group of 20 male and female ESL Saudi Arabian learners in the United States. The stimulus of this work was a list of 20 English words with…