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  • Impact of Rhythm on Vietnamese Adult EFL Learners Intelligibility in Term of Mid-level Tone

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    Author(s)
    Dang, Tien
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    Dang, Tien ND.
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    This study investigates the impact of L1 (Vietnamese) on L2 (English) with a specific reference to rhythm. The transfer of L1 rhythm to the L2 rhythm is considered as a potential factor in reducing EFL learner's intelligibility. The findings of this quantitative research show that Vietnamese adult EFL learners' oral output is significantly unintelligible due to the application the mid-level tone of their first language, part of Vietnamese rhythm to produce English rhythm in a pronunciation test, making their utterance monotonous. This paper aims at presenting findings gained from an examination into how the Vietnamese rhythm, ...
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    This study investigates the impact of L1 (Vietnamese) on L2 (English) with a specific reference to rhythm. The transfer of L1 rhythm to the L2 rhythm is considered as a potential factor in reducing EFL learner's intelligibility. The findings of this quantitative research show that Vietnamese adult EFL learners' oral output is significantly unintelligible due to the application the mid-level tone of their first language, part of Vietnamese rhythm to produce English rhythm in a pronunciation test, making their utterance monotonous. This paper aims at presenting findings gained from an examination into how the Vietnamese rhythm, the mid-level tone, affects 50 Vietnamese adult EFL learners' intelligibility in a pronunciation test assessed by ten judges
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
    Volume
    2
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://www.ijalel.org/view.aspx?articleid=299
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2013. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
    Language Studies
    Linguistics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/53210
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    • Journal articles

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