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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to represent my heartfelt gratitude to all those who acquire helped make this research
possible.
Firstly, I am deeply grateful to my supervisor, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoai Minh, M.A., since her
invaluable inspiration, support, instructions, information, and comments. Without her, this
could not at all come into being.
I also have need of to thank Ms. Nguyen Vu Phuong Thao and the students of three classes:
AV11A1, AV11A2, and AV11A3 with respect to letting me have a chance to possess data for this study.
My e~ thanks also go to all teachers at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ho Chi Minh
City Open University. Their dear guidance has led me to who I am today.
Last but not least, I owe a obligation of gratitude to my family. Their tireless stay and
encouragement are ever incomparable.
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ABSTRACT
This inquiry was carried out to find out mistakes that first-year English majors at Ho Chi
Minh City Open University made through reduced sound // or schwa and linking sounds at the time that
reading out loud English texts. The schwa and linking sounds are prominent because they help
make English speech learners sound more like native speakers of English. To perceive out
mistakes that the students made through these two aspects, the researcher listened to 100
students delineation out loud one out of 10 given topics in the latest exam of the American
English Pronunciation process. The students’ mistakes were categorized, counted, and
analyzed quantitatively. It turned public that the students had made actual mistakes with
both aspects. The disingenuous percentage of mistakes made with the schwa was more high
(55.5%). The students made the principally mistakes with prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliaries,
and pronouns and the least mistakes with articles. The mean percentage of mistakes made
by linking sounds was seriously high (87.2%). The students made the in the greatest degree mistakes with
Laterals + Vowels (100%) and the least mistakes with Affricates + Vowels (36.7%). They
in addition made a lot of...
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