Foreign studentsʼ speech in England : graduation thesis = Govor tujih študentov v Angliji : diplomsko delo
Potušek, Manca
The diploma thesis focuses on the influence of the French, Italian and Spanish language on the Standard Southern British English pronunciation. The research is based on the recordings of 10 French, 9 ...Italian and 9 Spanish students who spent half a year in England as Erasmus exchange students. The theoretical part starts with an introductory chapter describing a short history of all four languages, as well as the position of the English language in the world and in the European Union. East Midlands English and Standard Southern British English are then presented with their phonological characteristics. Furthermore, the vowel systems of French, Italian and Spanish language are presented together with the most common errors the speakers of these languages encounter when pronouncing English vowels. In the following chapter the term "interlanguage" and research methods as Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis are described. In the last segment of the theoretical part we are dealing with so-called formants which are frequencies that the vowels are made of and are essential for identification of a vowel. In the empirical part, Error Analysis is used as a research method. The key part of the research is the analysis of the recordings of foreign students' pronunciation of 11 SSBE vowels. The results of the research clearly prove a strong influence of the French, Italian, and Spanish accents on the pronunciation of SSBE vowels, as well as a great impact of General American. To analyse the data, the descriptive method was used. The findings of the dissertation could be of help to other researchers or English teachers should they find themselves teaching in France, Italy or Spain.
Type of material - undergraduate thesis
; adult, serious
Publication and manufacture - Maribor : [M. Potušek], 2016
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