Title: The Impact of EFL Learners’ Grammatical Inaccuracies on English-Native-Speaking Teachers’ Assessment of Their Pronunciation
Stream: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Emad Abu-Ayyash, The British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Christopher Hill, The British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Abstract:
This study investigates the impact of grammatical inaccuracy on the assessment of pronunciation. Data were gathered using structured interviews and a matched-guise instrument and involved a total of 44 participants, 10 English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners and 34 English-native-speaking (ENS) teachers. Data gathering from structured interviews involved 4 ENS participants; the questions were about pronunciation assessment. As for the matched-guise instrument, 10 EFL Grade-10 learners pronounced 20 sentences, with each learner assigned one grammatical sentence and its corresponding ungrammatical sentence to pronounce. The resulting 20 audios were randomised. Using the matched-guise technique, the audios were presented to 34 ENS teachers to evaluate the pronunciation of each utterance as ‘good’ or ‘not good’. A paired samples t-test measured the statistical significance level in the mean between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences for each and all learners. While the interview findings showed that teachers believed grammar was not an indicator to pronunciation assessment, the results from the matched-guise instrument revealed that it was.
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