Langues & Cultures
Volume 5, Numéro 1, Pages 319-334
2024-06-30
Raising Reduced Forms Awareness In Efl Learners’ Listening And Speaking Abilities
Authors : Benyagoub Lahcène . Keddouci Othmane .
Abstract
This research paper was conducted to investigate and report the phonological problems that Master One English as a Foreign Language students at the university of Adrar face when they listen to spoken discourse, especially when they try to perceive and interpret words that undergo sound modifications at word boundaries, namely assimilation, elision, intrusion, linking and weak forms. The sample comprised a class of Master One with 20 students who were subjected to a small text which is used for two purposes; first, as a cloze dictation test to measure students’ ability to recognize words undergoing sound modifications, and the same text was transcribed and given to students where they were asked to provide any instance of reduced forms processes. The results revealed that students had a lot of difficulties in breaking up words into their individual sounds (i.e., lexical segmentation) due to the occurrence of reduced forms that blurred the ends and beginnings of words. With the transcribed text, students produced very few instances of the required reduced forms. The results of the investigation beg the teachers of English to handle and use native-like English.
Keywords
listening difficulties ; spoken discourse ; word recognition ; Sound modification ; Reduced forms
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