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Title:
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Phonemic Identifications in English: A case of interlingual transfer by adult speakers of Turkish, Japanese, and Arabic
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Author:
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Erdoğan Bada
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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University of Exeter
, Department of Language and Linguistics
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Degree Date:
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1993
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Applied Linguistics
Phonology
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Subject Language(s):
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Arabic, Standard
English
Japanese
Turkish
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Director(s):
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W Dodd
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Abstract:
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This study is about phonological analysis of Turkish, Japanese and Arabic speakers learning English as a foreign language. The study was carried out at a phonemic level, and it reflects learners' performance in the target language at a specific stage of interlanguage. Both approaches, contrastive analysis and error analysis, were utilised here. A concise introduction is made to the phonological systems of learners' native languages; following this introduction, comparison of these systems with that of English is also made, shedding light on the phonemes that are most likely to pose articulation difficulty for learners. The defined hypothetical problem sounds were employed in texts and presented to learners for reading. Thirty-eight sentences comprising these sounds were read by learners to a tape-recorder. The data were analysed; the results were interpreted and presented in related sections of chapter IV; at the end of each section, findings were recapitulated and detected problem sounds presented in a tabular form. This procedure was carried out for each group of learners.
Five main chapters make up this study. In chapter I, elaboration on interlanguage is made; various interlanguage studies are also included in this chapter. Chapter II includes introductions to Turkish, Japanese and Arabic phonemes. Similarities and contrasts between the phonemes in question and phonemes of English are also highlighted in this chapter. In chapter III, the data collection procedure is elaborated on; details are also presented about the subjects and the experiments that are employed in this study. In chapter IV the data are analysed and interpreted; the case of each group is dealt with separately; findings concerning each group are presented in points at the end of each related section. Final conclusions are drawn in chapter V; in this chapter, the overall results are recapitulated and suggestions are made for the potential teacher who would be teaching English to learners having a Turkish or Japanese or Arabic native language background.
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