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Abd Elwahab, Waleed – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Due to the variety of their local dialects and accents, Arab learners occasionally face some problems when pronouncing English letters and phonemes. These pronunciation errors are caused by the influence of native language interference. Each language in any part of the world has its linguistic characteristics and rules that control their…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Labov, William; Baker, Bettina – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Early efforts to apply knowledge of dialect differences to reading stressed the importance of the distinction between differences in pronunciation and mistakes in reading. This study develops a method of estimating the probability that a given oral reading that deviates from the text is a true reading error by observing the semantic impact of the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Whites, Hispanic Americans, Dialects
Mitchell, Felicia – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this presentation is to encourage college teachers of writing, inside and outside Appalachia, to look at dialect-based errors in a more expansive way even as they help students to make better choices about standard usage. The discussion, which is presented within the context of a socio-cultural perspective on bias in perceptions of…
Descriptors: North American English, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Writing Instruction