Problems With Pronouncing Words

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Anping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaihua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Pronunciation problems in the country of your choice Or Why do Chinese people sound like Chinese? You might wander what is the reason for choosing this title for my summative task. As an aspirant teacher English to Chinese children, I chose ‘Pronunciation problems of Chinese people’ as the most attractive and the most useful topic for my summative task at this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shetianqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Proper pronunciation is essential to the understanding and communication of a language, and therefore it is an essential component of English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. Students of different nationalities and backgrounds will have different issues regarding English pronunciation depending on their native language. Their pronunciation issues often...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lukou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Once I arrived Vietnam to teach English language, I realized that the poor pronunciation is common in Vietnamese students as well as teachers. These mistakes are similar, as it was obvious the Vietnamese teachers passed them to the students. In this essay I am going to deliberate on the causes of the problem and suggest few solutions. First, we will start with the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gugang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. PRONUNCIATION PROBLEMS IN VIETNAM Vietnamese Pronunciation Problems in English Speaking like a native speaker is always expected from learners. However, they encounter many factors that prevent their success. Therefore, as an English teacher, I want to explore some common difficulties that Vietnamese students face when they learn to pronounce English so that I can...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chenqibaorixile Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hulunbei'er Shi — Hulunbuir? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Why is pronunciation such a problematic section of the English language to learn for Vietnamese students? The Vietnamese language, like many other languages, has a different sound system that the English language has in its phonetics. A common problem with learning a new language comes with the presence of the learners' native language and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Duandian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ezhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Having been living and working in China for over twelve years now and lived in several major cities, I have noticed common problems for many of the English speaking Chinese I have come across that have not spent time abroad. Some of these problems come from the way they were taught English at school, usually by teachers who spoke little English themselves. The...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BAyantaohai Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayannao'er Shi — Bayan Nur? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. It is a well-known fact that no matter what language a person starts learning there could always be difficulties. For some people it might be the grammar – one of the most common problems as the majority of surveys report, some people cannot simply realize the fact that another language has a completely different sentence structure, word...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Futianhe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Let’s imagine we are sitting in Macau in a club. We are hungry and order some fried pork, it is called 猪 pronounced as zhū. We see some Saxon made porcelain figurines resembling probably pigs, again in Chinese they are 猪, zhū. We remind the waiter of the forgotten wine and he might address us as 猪, zhū, which might be something like swine. We have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guoyingzhuxizonghe Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Shiyan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. As a developing country, Vietnam currently has an urgent need for the international language English to attract foreign investment and to promote the economy, especially after becoming a member of the World Trade Organisation (Nguyen T.T, 2007). With this growth of international trade and an increasing number of foreign tourists, the ability to...  [Read more]

During my first week at the TEFL course in Phuket, Thailand, I began to notice that the pronunciation of the Thai students was lacking a bit. I do not blame this condition on the teachers, nor on the students themselves, but the pronunciation predicament immediately stuck out to me as a problem for which I would like to find some resolution. For this reason, I decided to look further into the difficulties Thai students have when learning such a widely- used foreign language as English. What I found was that most of the pronunciation problems stem from the vast differences the two languages contain. For many teachers and students alike, the dissimilarities become so numerous that they easily begin to overwhelm everyone involved in the process of learning a new language. But there are a few...  [Read more]

During my first week at the TEFL course in Phuket, Thailand, I began to notice that the pronunciation of the Thai students was lacking a bit. I do not blame this condition on the teachers, nor on the students themselves, but the pronunciation predicament immediately stuck out to me as a problem for which I would like to find some resolution. For this reason, I decided to look further into the difficulties Thai students have when learning such a widely- used foreign language as English. What I found was that most of the pronunciation problems stem from the vast differences the two languages contain. For many teachers and students alike, the dissimilarities become so numerous that they easily begin to overwhelm everyone involved in the process of learning a new language. But there are a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Leiping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chenzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Brazilians are learning English all over the country, for various reasons and with diverse goals. In this text, I would like to approach some very common deviations to standard English dialects, such as General American and Received Pronunciation, by Brazilian speakers. I have chosen to address some problems in phonetics and pronunciation that are the most frequent...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taipingqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I am a university professor. We have a lot of international students that are not native English speakers. They are admitted to the University with a TOEFL score of at least 90-100 and minimum scores of 20 in each section. I teach undergraduate and graduate science classes. My students are generally not required to speak except to ask or answer questions....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhaoji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In my time teaching English to beginner-level students in Japan, teaching pronunciation has presented a number of challenges. One reason for this is the difference in size between the Japanese and English phonemic inventories, with the former being significantly smaller. Another significant issue deals with students’ preconceptions of what English ought to sound...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Debaisi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xing'an Meng — Hinggan? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. English has been the international language of communication, business, commerce, science, technology and many other areas for hundreds of years. It is, therefore, the most commonly studied foreign language in the world. Approximately 2 billion people, of whom about 400 million are natives, speak English. This indicates that the rest 1,6 billion...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donghuwei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Problems for learners in Chile. This essay displays my own experience as well as information from other (internet) resources. I work as an English teacher in Chile, mainly teaching professionals in the mining industry. Only 3 to 5 percent of the population in Chile speaks proficient English. The Ministry of Education created a plan to upscale the level of English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dawang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huangshi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I chose a topic for my essay “Problems for learners in Vietnam” because I plan to teach English there. Vietnamese students beginning to learn English have many problems with pronunciation and grammar because these two languages are so extensively separated in every respect. The Vietnamese language consists of short words that can have different meanings...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qidong Jingji KAifAqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Many consider English a hard language to master. This is especially true for Japanese speakers as there is great disparity between English and Japanese in terms of grammar, lexicon, and phonetics. English has more distinct sounds and sound combinations than Japanese. Hence, they have difficulty in accurately perceiving and reproducing certain English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ErfAngping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhangjiajie Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. As an EFL teacher in South Korea, I have noticed some problems which are common for learners in South Korea. Differentiating between the pronunciation of sounds /b/ and /p/ as well as /r/ and /l/ are a struggle for most Korean learners. As a result of these pronunciation issues, as well as their Korean written language patterns, spelling problems also tend to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pengyuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In my experience with teaching Chinese students, most pronounce the unvoiced ‘TH’ sound correctly. To account for the difference in sound between the unvoiced ‘TH’ and the voiced ‘TH’, most students seem to have developed the habit of placing their tongue either on the back of their front teeth or on the roof of the mouth immediately behind the front...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baimi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Historically and linguistically speaking, English is one of the languages far from Japanese. Japan is only one country where people do not speak English among the so-called developed countries people once called. As a matter of fact, most Japanese people who have studied English as a L2 language do not appear to be good at English pronouncing and actually their sounds...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongxing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. English has undoubtedly become the lingua franca of the world with more and more people across the world aspiring to acquire the language. However, there are certain issues that people generally face when trying to master a foreign language; in this case, English. I am from a South-Asian country called India where the problems faced by people are unique which will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TieshAgai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulanchabu Shi — Ulanqab? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. New Zealand, known as the land of the long white cloud, has a large amount of travellers that visit every year. According to Statistics New Zealand, 3.86 million international travellers visited New Zealand in 2018 (International travel: December 2018, February 2019). From my experience as a hostel manager in New Zealand, I was able to meet many...  [Read more]

ESL students whose first language is Italian certainly have many advantages over some students who speak languages less closely related to English. The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the US Department of State, which recently categorized languages into how closely they were related to English and how long it would take speakers of those languages to reach a certain level of proficiency in English, placed Italian in the category of languages most closely related to English. Indeed, Italian speakers have the advantage of familiarity with the Roman alphabet, and the two languages share many similar grammatical structures and even similar-sounding vocabulary items. At the same time, Italian students of English still encounter many difficulties relating to the pronunciation and spelling of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinjie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianning Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Phonology is the system of sounds that exist within a particular language, while phonetics is the study of how speech sounds are produced. One difficulty for all learners of a second language is learning how to produce new sounds by moving the mouth, lips and tongue in new ways. A number of other languages also share the Roman alphabet with English, but do not...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAnduo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yangzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Pronunciation can be defined as the way in which a person sounds the lexical item of a language while speaking. Like other varieties, Pakistani English has also developed a variety which is known as Pakistani English. This variety has its own certain phenological attributes. Similar to other country speakers, Pakistani speakers also face pronunciation problems. This...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Charisu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tongliao Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Difficulties of learning English in Turkey Turkey is a country in Europe and Asia. The educational system in Turkey is different compared to Europa, for example. I am a person who is born and raised in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, there is a theoretical and practical study. In Turkey, this is missing, and there is only an academic education with minimum...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donghu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There are a number of problems encountered by native Japanese speakers when studying English as a foreign language. These problems include: difficulties with pronunciation of native English sounds along with differences with sentence structure, tenses and articles. The English as a Foreign Language teacher can implement several strategies to assist the Japanese...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xingang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. According to a study by scholars and experts in the field of linguistics, more specifically in the article of Riney & Anderson-Hsieh from International Christian University, the native language (L1) is a good predictor of pronunciation accuracy in English as researched by Suter in 1976. In the same article, it was mentioned that a subsequent study by Purcell...  [Read more]

'gIf the English language made any sense, catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.'h (Doug Larson) Before delving into problems facing Thai students learning English I'fll outline some of the positives. Many students prefer farang (foreigner) teachers partly due to a more informal teaching style, but also because a speaker of the native tongue can address pronunciation issues in a way that a non-native speaker cannot. Added to this a lifetimes knowledge of conversational English is more relevant than the rigid, sometimes rarely used, vocabulary and structure of textbooks. Native speakers are employed extensively in schools, businesses and colleges throughout Thailand. Initially the main problem facing students is that the Thai alphabet is entirely different to the Roman alphabet....  [Read more]