Phonological Dilemmas Thai Students Face in Arabic Pronunciation
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This study assesses the phonological difficulties Thai students face when pronouncing Arabic consonant sounds by comparing and contrasting Arabic and Thai consonant sounds, and by testing students’ pronunciation issues of Arabic sounds through error analysis (e.g., Corder, 1981; Ellis, 2008). Using a basic random selection method, thirty native Thai-speaking students (18 females, 12 males) took a pronunciation test, giving a demographic introduction in Arabic and then speaking about freedom of expression. Contrastive analysis identified twenty-three Arabic consonant sounds that are absent from Thai, and eleven consonant sounds that are synonymous between Arabic and Thai. To identify mispronounced consonant sounds, an analysis was conducted on the students’ voice recordings. Mispronunciations of some Arabic sounds were common and involved addition, omission, and transformation. The study contributes to the creation of Arabic phonetics curricula in Thai-Arabic language educational institutions.
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บทความทุกบทความเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของภาษาและภาษาศาสตร์
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