The Employment of Phonetic Exercises to Improve English Major Students’ Pronunciation
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Pronunciation plays a very crucial role in communication. You may not understand others as well as you maynot beunderstood if youcannot producecorrect
pronunciation.Mispronunciation may lead to miscommunication.This researchaimed
atinvestigating and comparinglearning achievement ofthe English major students between beforeand after theemploymentof phoneticexercisestoimprovetheirEnglish
pronunciation, and studyingtheir satisfaction towards the use of phonetic exercises.
Thirty-five English major students, studying in the first year at the time of study, were
randomly selected to participate in this study. The instruments used consisted of
English phonetic exercises, lesson plans, an achievement test, a questionnairefor
satisfaction and group interview.The collected data were analyzed for frequency,
percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Thehypothesis was tested by dependent
sample t-test.
Theresultsof theresearchrevealed thatafter studying withtheemployment
of phonetic exercises, the students’ learning achievementwas at a high level at the
statistical significance.01 and their satisfaction towards the use of phonetic exercises
was at a high level.
Article Details
- ต้นฉบับที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ในวารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏบุรีรัมย์ สาขามนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ ถือเป็นกรรมสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏบุรีรัมย์ ห้ามนำข้อความทั้งหมดหรือบางส่วนไปพิมพ์ซ้ำเว้นเสียแต่ว่าจะได้รับอนุญาตจากมหาวิทยาลัยฯ เป็นลายลักษณ์อักษร
- เนื้อหาต้นฉบับที่ปรากฏในวารสารเป็นความรับผิดชอบของผู้เขียน ทั้งนี้ไม่รวมความผิดพลาด อันเกิดจากเทคนิคการพิมพ์
References
ac.uk/resources/gpg/404.
Celce-Murcia, M., Brenton, D., & Goodwin, J. (2000).Teaching pronunciation:
A referencefor teachersofEnglishtospeakersofother languages. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Derwing,T. M., Thomson, R. I., & Munro, M. J. (2006).English pronunciationand fluency
development in Mandarin and Slavic speakers.System. 34, 183-193.
Gardner H. (2005).Intelligence in seven steps.Retrieved August 15, 2016 from http://
www.newhorizons.org/future/Creating_the_Future/crfut_gardner.html.
Hahn, M. K.(2004). The persistence of learned primary phrase stress patterns among
learners of English. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champagne.
Kanoksilapatham, B. (2007). Navigating pathways to success in ELT.Journal of English
studies. 3, 6-25.
Khamkhien, A. (2010).TeachingEnglishspeaking skills and Englishspeaking tests inthe
Thai context: A refletion from Thai perspective. English language teaching.
3(1), 184-190.
Miyake, S. (2004).Pronunciation and music.Retrieved March 5, 2015 from http://www.
jrc.sophia.ac.jp/kiyou/ki24/miyake.pdf.
Rattanathongkam, S. (2013).Learning Theory.Retrieved on 20 July, 2013.fromhttp://
www.oknation.net/blog/Apinya0936/2013/12/24/entry-2.
Saengdej, G. (2002). Classroom Research.Nakornsawan: Rimping Publishing.
Saengrungrawee, R. (1988). Achievement in word spelling by the use of exercises
forPrathomsuksa3studentsofKasetsart DemonstrativeSchool.Thesis(Master
of Education). Bangkok: Graduation School.
Sooksai,P. (2007).The developmentofEnglishReadingSkills byusing phoneticsexercises
for the Students in Matthayoumsuksa 6 of RaitaiPrachakhom School.
Ubolrachathani.
Sriphet, A. (2009). The development of English Reading Skills by using phonetics
exercises for theStudents inPrathomsuksa6ofTesaban5School.Suratthani.
Taylor, D. (1995). Vowels, Consonants and Syllables in English: English Teaching
Perspective. InternationalReview of Applied Linguistics inLanguageTeaching,
33(1), 1-8.
Thanthanis, T. (2013).English pronunciation problems of third year interdisciplinary
studies students of Thammasat University. Proceedings of 51stKasetsart
University Annual Conference.Bangkok.
The world’s largest ranking of countries by English skills.(n.d.). Retrieved 23 March,
2015. From http://www.ef.co.th/epi/
Ulate, N.V. (2011). Using songs toimproveEFL students’ pronunciation.LETRAS.2(44),
93-108.
Ur,P. (2000). A courseinlanguageteaching practiceand theory:Teaching pronunciation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
