STUDY OF PHONOLOGY STRUCTURES AMONG IRANIAN STUDENTS

Abstract

This phenomenon that bilingual learners are not able to pronounce some sounds in English Language. This
issue has been the main concerns of different studies in the field English language teaching (ELT). Researchers and
experts in this ELT have payed to challenges by non-native English speakers from different aspects such as psychological,
environmental, physical and psychological. Although different studies attempted to unfold the questions which may
influences factors in learning a second language, there are many different points that are attractive for experts such as
cross linguistic. The same as other second language learners, Iranian learners could be included in this category. They
have problem in English pronunciation and sounds such as /θ/ and /w/ and pronouncing consonant cluster (CC). It might
have different reasons such as mother tongue and lack of a good teacher and EFL text books. For that reason, this study
is going to evaluate and criticize Iranian pronunciation in terms of cross linguistic. Therefore, 3 EFL students form
EvazPayam-e-Nour University were selected and qualitative method were administered. Then, their proficiency levels in
English language have been examined 3 times in one semester.