The Role of Orthography and Phoneme Inventory in Dutch Students’ Speech Perception in the EFL Classroom

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  • Marlisa Hommel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/philologia.2018.16.16.4

Ključne reči:

perceptivno učenje, veliki fonemski inventar, holandski, engleski, ortografija

Apstrakt

Cilj ovog rada je dvojak: da se odredi da li ortografija odmaže percepciji L2 kod učenika i da li, kao što PAM-L2 predviđa, fonemski inventar u L1 utiče na L2 govor holandskih srednjoškolaca. Najpre je sproveden pilot test kako bi se utvrdilo da li je teže opaziti ‘nove’ glasove, koji ne postoje u fonemskom inventaru holandskog, od ‘istih’ glasova. Nakon toga je sproveden još jedan test percepcije koji je ispitao da li ortografija otežava percepciju fonema ili grupa fonema koje su teške holandskim učenicima. U tom testu svi glasovi su se našli u frekventnim engleskim rečima i činili su izgovorene stimuluse, a pisane reči-mete su bile ili reči čiji pisani oblik odgovara auditorno percipiranim rečima, ili reči čiji se pisani oblik razlikuje od auditorno percipirane reči. Rezultati upućuju na to da ortografija otežava percepciju. Povrh toga, u skladu sa predviđanjima PAM-L2, ‘nove’ L2 glasove je teže percipirati od ‘istih’ glasova.

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Hommel, M. (2021). The Role of Orthography and Phoneme Inventory in Dutch Students’ Speech Perception in the EFL Classroom. Philologia, 16(1), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.18485/philologia.2018.16.16.4

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