Doi Chieu Nguyen Am Anh Viet
COMPARE ENGLISH VOWELS AND VIETNAMESE VOWELS
Introduction:
As a developing country, Vietnam currenty has an urgent need for the international language English to attract foreign investment as well as promote the economy, especially after becoming a member of the World Trade Organization. English, previously included in the curriculum from the first year of middle school, is now officially taught for children from six years old. Foreign language centers are dramatically increasing in number, and English is the most popular foreign language offered for learner. Although English has become an important demand for schooling and job opportunities, however Vietnamese people can not pronounce English properly. Like some other languages, Vietnamese has phonotactic features that keep native learners from pronouncing English like native speakers. In fact we know that, English pronunciation is reputedly a difficult barier in good learning this language. English phonetic features are very different from Vietnamese, however, almost English learners don’t attach much importance to this or teacherselves don’t make learners aware of the important of good English pronounciation at the beginning of learning English. In real-life of teaching and learning English, I know that good pronounciation is not a simple thing, especially with Vietnamese pupils who carry themselves arbitrary thought getting Vietnamese is the centre so they try to bend English to Vietnamese, it is an error. In real-life of teaching English I realize that anyone who pays much attention to pronounciation, get strictness with himself or herself in this field, he/she won’t get difficulty in being the master of English of him or herself. So we can say, to be good at English, first of all we have to be good at phonetic. Because of the importance of the phonetic and the difference between Vietnamese vowel sounds and English vowel sounds and the frequency of English vowel sounds errors
Introduction:
As a developing country, Vietnam currenty has an urgent need for the international language English to attract foreign investment as well as promote the economy, especially after becoming a member of the World Trade Organization. English, previously included in the curriculum from the first year of middle school, is now officially taught for children from six years old. Foreign language centers are dramatically increasing in number, and English is the most popular foreign language offered for learner. Although English has become an important demand for schooling and job opportunities, however Vietnamese people can not pronounce English properly. Like some other languages, Vietnamese has phonotactic features that keep native learners from pronouncing English like native speakers. In fact we know that, English pronunciation is reputedly a difficult barier in good learning this language. English phonetic features are very different from Vietnamese, however, almost English learners don’t attach much importance to this or teacherselves don’t make learners aware of the important of good English pronounciation at the beginning of learning English. In real-life of teaching and learning English, I know that good pronounciation is not a simple thing, especially with Vietnamese pupils who carry themselves arbitrary thought getting Vietnamese is the centre so they try to bend English to Vietnamese, it is an error. In real-life of teaching English I realize that anyone who pays much attention to pronounciation, get strictness with himself or herself in this field, he/she won’t get difficulty in being the master of English of him or herself. So we can say, to be good at English, first of all we have to be good at phonetic. Because of the importance of the phonetic and the difference between Vietnamese vowel sounds and English vowel sounds and the frequency of English vowel sounds errors
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