Speech intelligibility problems of Sudanese learners of English: An Experimental approach

摘要: This is a study on the pronunciation and perception of English sounds words by university students in Sudan, whose native language Sudanese Arabic. The aims to establish intelligibility Sudanese-Arabic (SA) accented for (British American) listeners Dutch who use as lingua franca. SA-accented compared with that English. also investigates how well SA identify recognize simple sentences spoken speaker. tests show predominantly compromised incorrect vowels. finding was predicted from contrastive analysis Arabic sound inventories. The produced vowels consonants consonant clusters controlled materials. Acoustic analyses were carried out order differences between British pronunciation. comparison revealed substantial discrepancies non-native varieties, which can be used explain degraded Written questionnaires administered both their instructors asked strengths weaknesses students’ production words, speculate underlying causes difficulties. results have clear intuitions where are, these correspond closely experimental findings experiments acoustic analyses. This book relevance (applied) linguists teachers general specialists teaching listening skills an background.