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Download full textBondarenko, Olga R. – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2020
This research is a multi-aspect exploratory investigation of Russian English institutional written discourse and highlights its features demonstrated by Russian native learners, tertiary students of English for the tourism and hospitality industry. The author approaches the theme from the perspectives of World Englishes and the pedagogical agenda.…
Descriptors: Russian, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lehtonen, Jaakko, Ed.; Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1979
Four papers report on phonetic differences between Finnish and English, with pedagogical implications for teaching English as a second language. "The English /ptk/-/bdg/ Distinction: Data and Discussion" by Kari Suomi is a survey of recent work on the phonetic parameters of the fortis/lenis distinction. The distinction…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Lehtonen, Jaakko; Koponen, Matti – 1977
This report deals with sporadic observations on the glottal stop in the English spoken by Finns. The data were collected in connection with two separate studies. An attempt is made to give a description of the factors which may explain the occurrence of glottalization and to outline the method by which the phenomenon will be approached in greater…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Davidsen-Nielsen, Niels – 1977
Since 1971 the approach adopted in the teaching of English phonetics in Denmark has been a contrastive one. In this paper it is argued that although the original contrastive hypothesis (Lado 1957) has to be modified and weakened, a contrastive approach is highly useful in learning and teaching the pronunciation of a foreign language. Selected…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, Distinctive Features (Language)
PDF pending restorationVago, Robert M.; Altenberg, Evelyn – 1977
This study identified two types of interference between Hungarian and English: phonetic and phonological interference. Four native speakers of Hungarian who are second language speakers of English read a passage containing a wide variety of sounds in different phonological environments. A set of rules mapping American English onto…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
Moisio, Risto; Valento, Eero – 1976
The present study deals with two language skills, listening and speaking, and it is limited to single consonant phonemes only. The purpose is to try to find answers to the following problems: (1) Which Finnish consonants are given as substitutes for English consonants by Finnish pupils who have no previous (or practically no previous) knowledge of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)
