FRESHMEN’S OPIONS ON PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION TO IMPROVE THEIR PRONUNCIATION

Abstract

Pronunciation is extremely important to have good listening and speaking skills. In order to pronounce the words well, phonetic transcription is a method which assists learners to recognize and distinguish English sounds. The paper aims to find out if phonetic transcription could improve students’ Pronunciation and what difficulties the students had with phonetic transcription. The objects of this research were 43 students of class 59nna3 who learned and practised phonetic transcription in class, and then they made 3 videos in their small groups and sent their videos to the teacher’s Edmodo.com. Finally, they had an end-of-course test with both Vietnamese and international teachers. 5 students were chosen randomly and interviewed individually about their difficulties in doing phonetic transcription. Phonetic transcription improved the objects’ pronunciation.