The Impact of the Absence of Teaching Phonetics at Secondary Schools on Students' Pronunciation

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the impact of the absence of teaching English language pronunciation from the curriculum at the secondary schools. The study examined the pronunciation awareness among the students of the third year at the secondary schools. The research also aims to see to what extent the absence of teaching pronunciation affected the students at the secondary level. This study contains five chapters; chapter one is an introduction, chapter two is a literature review, which shows the information related to the field of pronunciation. Chapter three is research methodology, chapter four is data analysis, results and discussion, chapter five, is conclusion. The results show that the majority of the students agreed that the pronunciation awareness needs a special care from those who are responsible for the education in order to improve the standards of the EFL learners.