Lebanese Students Speaking English: Intelligibility of Voiced and Voiceless Word-Final Consonants with Respect to Vowel Length - Couverture souple

Ghanem, Romy

 
9783846517260: Lebanese Students Speaking English: Intelligibility of Voiced and Voiceless Word-Final Consonants with Respect to Vowel Length
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3846517267 ISBN 13 : 9783846517260
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Vowel duration has been proven to be the most perceptible cue to the voicing of an English word-final consonant. Very little research has been conducted on Lebanese speakers’ productions of such consonants and the influence that other languages, such as Arabic and French, have on these productions. This study compares English word-final voiced and voiceless consonants produced by intermediate Lebanese speakers of English to those of advanced ones. The analyses presented in this book show that there is no significant difference between the intermediate and the advanced students. Results of the conducted research also highlight the absence of significant difference between the scores given by the linguistically trained judges and those given by the non-linguistically trained panel. Further analyses of the data verify that there is no correlation between the placement of the students based on an entrance test and the ratings given by the judges on their utterances. Therefore, standardized placement tests cannot, in this case, reflect Lebanese students' actual oral proficiency in the English language.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Vowel duration has been proven to be the most perceptible cue to the voicing of an English word-final consonant. Very little research has been conducted on Lebanese speakers’ productions of such consonants and the influence that other languages, such as Arabic and French, have on these productions. This study compares English word-final voiced and voiceless consonants produced by intermediate Lebanese speakers of English to those of advanced ones. The analyses presented in this book show that there is no significant difference between the intermediate and the advanced students. Results of the conducted research also highlight the absence of significant difference between the scores given by the linguistically trained judges and those given by the non-linguistically trained panel. Further analyses of the data verify that there is no correlation between the placement of the students based on an entrance test and the ratings given by the judges on their utterances. Therefore, standardized placement tests cannot, in this case, reflect Lebanese students' actual oral proficiency in the English language.

Biographie de l'auteur

Romy Ghanem was born in 1986 in Lebanon. At the age of fifteen, she published the novel Scales of Justice. She earned her BA in English Language and Literature, with Honors, after which she was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics, with Honors, from The Ohio University in 2010.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3846517267
ISBN 13 
9783846517260
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
92
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