Pronunciation errors made by Dutch secondary school students in English.
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2020-12-18
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Pronunciation errors made by Dutch learners of English have been studied mostly for adults. This research investigates the pronunciation errors in English made by Dutch secondary school students. Part of an existing corpus of audio recordings of Dutch secondary school students has been used. The pronunciation errors observed in the data of the secondary school students have been compared to pronunciation errors frequently made by adult Dutch learners of English. Most errors observed in the data are errors that are commonly made by Dutch learners of English, and could be explained by Dutch interference and/or assimilation, or confusion because of spelling. Error hierarchies have also been looked at, and errors that occur relatively frequently also appear to be the ones that are viewed as the most impactful errors. Knowledge
about pronunciation errors made by Dutch secondary school students may be useful for
teachers, and Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training systems based on Automatic Speech Recognition could be used to help students improve their pronunciation.
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