Abstract
Language is an intensely indispensable tool. It has tremendous functions in communication. One is communicating and conveying messages, thoughts and ideas, feelings, insights, and mental treasures and values of a communicative society. Also, it enhances and strengthens fellowships, companionships, relationships and economic and cultural cooperation. However, language is very indistinct, unclear and confusing. This contrastive linguistics analysis will compare the consonants between English and Vietnamese. Thus, the author synthesizes stored information from various sources to compare differences in consonants between English and Vietnamese in comparative points. Then, some implications and discussion would be drawn for teaching English pronunciation, aiming at helping English learners pronounce like native speakers. The findings show that there are significant differences between English and Vietnamese consonants. This paper is intended to help teachers and English learners review English and Vietnamese consonants to minimize mistakes in their pronunciation, accommodating learners to build their confidence to communicate in L2.
Highlights
1 It is very important to explain how consonants are pronounced and how they are different from the others in English and Vietnamese
The findings show that there are significant differences between English and Vietnamese consonants
Why is it essential to know about the information background of the analysis? The same question arises in relation to grammar; at lower levels of study, one is concerned with laying out how to form grammatical sentences; people who plan to work with the language at a higher level as teachers or researchers require a more profound understanding provided by grammatical theory and related areas of linguistics
Summary
1 It is very important to explain how consonants are pronounced and how they are different from the others in English and Vietnamese. Why is it essential to know about the information background of the analysis? Accurate pronunciation is a solid foundation for those who learn foreign languages, as mentioned above. I conduct it in the form of a short research paper. This paper is about consonants in English and Vietnamese. Consonants filed is only a small part in phonetics and phonology subject. Peter Roach (2000) says that the disposition of phonetics and phonology will be interpreted as the course progresses
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