| dc.description.abstract | Abstract : This study investigates the common English pronunciation difficulties encountered by third year students at the Faculty of Education-Elmergib University, Libya, when transcribing English words. It also aims to shed light on students' ability in classifying English consonants, recognizing silent letters, and identifying different pronunciations of the past simple tense ending with /ed/. The instrument used for collecting data was a pronunciation test . The results show that the participants have difficulties in transcribing words correctly and recognizing the three different ways of pronouncing the past /ed/. The results also demonstrate that a great number of the participants encountered difficulties in identifying the consonant sounds regarding voicing, place of articulation and manner of articulation. This study provides some useful pedagogical implications to prevent and remedy English pronunciation problems in the future. | en_US |
