Research problem
Even after years of exposure to the target language,
the acquisition of intelligible English pronunciation in adulthood of
Argentinian speakers in the city of Escobar is a barrier which impairs the
effective communication process.
Intelligibility in Pronunciation- An Essential Feature of Communicative Competence With the advent of Communicative Language Teaching CLT, the main goal of language teaching became to promote communicative competence. Nonetheless, fully communicative competence cannot be achieved without intelligible pronunciation. Most of the current literature emphasizes the importance of achieving this intelligibility “not as helping students to sound like native speakers but as helping them to learn the core elements of spoken English so that they can be easily understood by others” (Gilbert, 2008, p.1). However, in many English language classrooms, teaching pronunciation is granted the least attention (Gilakjani, Ahmadi,& Ahmadi, 2011) . Even after years of exposure to the target language, the acquisition of intelligible English pronunciation is a barrier which impairs the effective communication process of adult Argentinian learners in a private institution in the cit...
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