English Phonetics Course: University Students’ Preferences and Expectations

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.20.1.05

Marta A. Nowacka

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Abstract

This paper examines the perspectives of Polish university students of English (n=110) on selected aspects after the pronunciation instruction they underwent during their phonetics course. It shows qualitative questionnaire results obtained by means of four open-ended statements. It sheds light on: English accent preference, reasons why they favoured and disfavoured the course and expectations from the course tutor. The students reported a positive impact of the training on their speaking and overall English/language skills, sounding native-like, good, and being understood. They admitted to disliking rules, theory of phonetics, unexpected pronunciation of words. In addition, the expected responsibilities of a pronunciation tutor comprised: correction of students’ pronunciation and helping them improve this skill. It confirms that the nativeness principle to pronunciation learning still prevails as the students wish to sound nativelike and expect the teacher to give them corrective accuracy-based feedback.

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英语语音课程：大学生的偏好与期望

本文考察了波兰英语大学生（n=110）在语音课程中接受发音教学后对所选方面的看法。它显示了通过四个开放式陈述获得的定性问卷结果。它揭示了：英语口音偏好，他们喜欢和不喜欢这门课程的原因，以及对课程导师的期望。学生们报告说，培训对他们的口语和整体英语/语言技能产生了积极影响，听起来像本地人，很好，被理解。他们承认不喜欢规则，不喜欢语音学理论，不喜欢出乎意料的单词发音。此外，发音导师的预期职责包括：纠正学生的发音并帮助他们提高这项技能。这证实了发音学习的本土性原则仍然盛行，因为学生希望听起来像本土人，并希望老师给他们基于纠正准确性的反馈。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.