AN ANALYSIS OF ERRORS IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH FINAL CONSONANTS BY H’RE ETHNIC GROUP STUDENTS AT SON HA HIGH SCHOOL, QUANG NGAI PROVINCE

Abstract

Pronunciation is an integral part of foreign language learning since it directly affects learners’ communicative competence as well as performance. Limited pronunciation skills can decrease learners’ self-confidence, restrict social interactions, and negatively affect estimations of a speaker’s credibility and abilities. This study, therefore, has been carried out basing on the contrastive analysis between H’Re and English final consonant systems in order to find out errors in pronouncing English final consonants of H’Re students at Son Ha High School, Quang Ngai Province. The hypotheses in this thesis were tested on the actual pronunciation performances on the available words in the trial word tables. The study points out some typical errors in pronouncing English final consonant of H’Re students. Another feature is the inability to pronounce the English final consonant combinations. Two typical types of errors related to consonant combinations are that students remove consonants in combinations or syllabic sonorant of combinations. Then some suggestions for the effective pronunciation teaching and learning are also mentioned here to help learners overcome the problems.