This study investigates the effectiveness of the International Phonetic Alphabet and the Phonics method on the pronunciation of English learners aged 15 to 17 at the lower-intermediate level.The result of this study s...This study investigates the effectiveness of the International Phonetic Alphabet and the Phonics method on the pronunciation of English learners aged 15 to 17 at the lower-intermediate level.The result of this study shows that the International Phonetic Alphabet group achieved slightly higher scores on average pronunciation intelligibility and mispronounced ten times fewer words than the phonics group.The outcome of this study supports the theory of Lingua Franca Core(LFC)that some features of pronunciation are not as important as others and mispronouncing them does not influence overall intelligibility.展开更多
文摘This study investigates the effectiveness of the International Phonetic Alphabet and the Phonics method on the pronunciation of English learners aged 15 to 17 at the lower-intermediate level.The result of this study shows that the International Phonetic Alphabet group achieved slightly higher scores on average pronunciation intelligibility and mispronounced ten times fewer words than the phonics group.The outcome of this study supports the theory of Lingua Franca Core(LFC)that some features of pronunciation are not as important as others and mispronouncing them does not influence overall intelligibility.
