The difficulties and elucidations of teaching and learning English pronunciation on reading and communication at secondary level students in Bangladesh

Abstract

The objective of this study is to teach English pronunciation to learners who will make pronunciation like the native speaker. Individually, this goal of teaching English pronunciation is unrealistic. My aim to observe the present situation of teaching pronunciation in our schools has to give a suitable lesson plan so that they can communicate easily. This article investigates the pronunciation errors in English. These errors reflect the interference of different sound systems in the English pronunciation. Speech samples of the subjects' pronunciation were taken through words and sentences reading. Data was collected and analyzed with the guidance of phonemic transcription in Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. Using Contrastive Analysis, potential difficulties of English pronunciation for the six subjects were listed by comparing the sound systems of English. On the other hand, the pronunciation errors of subjects were diagnosed in different categories based on Error Analysis. The findings help to provide a clear understanding of the common characteristics of pronunciation errors made by the subjects.