Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2010, 12(1):50-54 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2010.1.50-54

Perceptual Analysis of L2 Phonic Competence

Tomas Lengyelfalusy1, Zdena Kralova2
1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
2 Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Science, University of Zilina, Slovakia

The research is focused on the quality of English pronunciation of Slovak native speakers reflected in the score of perceptual evaluation by English native speakers. The primary objective is to detect the improvement of English phonic competence after the metaphonetic input focused on the contrastive analysis of the Slovak and English segmental systems.

Keywords: L2 pronunciation, perceptual analysis, statistics

Published: March 31, 2010  Show citation

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Lengyelfalusy, T., & Kralova, Z. (2010). Perceptual Analysis of L2 Phonic Competence. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 12(1), 50-54. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2010.1.50-54
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