• Fayyad Amin Odeh

  Author

This study was carried out in the field of pedagogical phonetics. It specifically aims at investigating the
pronunciation of English consonant clusters as produced by Arabic native speaking students. In two
phonological loci, namely prosthesis and anaptyxis , twenty English monosyllabic and disyllabic
consonantal clustered words were examined qualitatively and quantitatively to familiarize the learning
pronunciation point. With spelling test and observation, the study's data were sequentially elicited from a
purposive sample of thirty Arab male students enrolled in the EFL preparatory program at Hail
University. The data gathered were interpreted by the use of inferential analysis and descriptive statistics.
The findings revealed that the students tended to epenthesize a short vowel into the English consonant
clusters wherever they tookplace. Overall, the study proved that the production of English consonant
clusters is a learning point with some challenge for Arabic native speaking learners of English
.Accordingly, the study recommended a pedagogical practice for improving EFL students' pronunciation
at Hail University .

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