Abstract
The study analyzes the influence of watching authentic TV programmes in English on the non-native speakers' level of English pronunciation. We tried to detect the correlation between frequency of watching TV programmes and perceptual analysis of English pronunciation of our respondents which was done by native speakers.
Highlights
Pronunciation is one of the most difficult aspects of language for a student to learn and some of them wish, in a long-term perspective, to pronounce at the level native speakers operate at, or at least, to be as close to this level as possible, which may well be a crowning achievement for an English foreign learner
A simple correlation administered in Microsoft Excell by using function Correl was used in order to calculate the correlation coefficient
The correlation coefficient which expresses the dependence of frequency of watching TV programmes and the level of pronunciation of the respondents (0.1518) is lower than
Summary
Pronunciation is one of the most difficult aspects of language for a student to learn and some of them wish, in a long-term perspective, to pronounce at the level native speakers operate at, or at least, to be as close to this level as possible, which may well be a crowning achievement for an English foreign learner. The relevant studies published so far, which were focused on the analysis of factors of foreign language phonic competence and performance, vary in several dimensions, such as subjects, objects, methods or processes of the research. Pronunciation quality of the respondents was evaluated by the native speakers who were using a perceptual evaluation method. The questionnaire was created to find out why and how often the students of English language watch authentic TV programmes in English. In case you watch these types of programmes, do you watch them with subtitles? If yes, write the name of the language the subtitles are in, please
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