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Factors That Affect Second Language Pronunciation

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There are many factors should affect in second language learner pronunciation, those kind of factors could be: native language interference or age affecting. The big problem while learning a second language is the quality of our language ability: pronunciation. Besides that, there are two factors which affect the pronunciation: firstly, internal factors that involve biological and personal factors. Secondly, external factors that include learner’s environment such as exposure and educational factors. Older learners in SLA research: a first look at working memory, feedback, and L2 development, written by Alison Mackey and Rebecca Sachs makes us aware of the lack of interest in older adults learning. They consider that teachers would be able to satisfy every population needs more accurate if there were more research about a wide range of population that is not commonly taken into account. The authors also explain some advantages that older learners have, such as willingness to adopt new cultural identities and/or various other talents for language learning and the fact that they have accumulated experience and knowledge in other areas. Despite of that, older people have trouble memorizing and processing and in this era with technology growing and changing so rapidly, aging brings limitations in …show more content…

On one hand, he has not many opportunities to practice and exercise pronunciation. Taking into account the thoughts of the mentioned author, “if one isn’t exposed to a new language for a long while the perceptive abilities begin to atrophy” (p. 49). On the other hand, his learning process has been individual and independent, with no trained or qualified teacher or at least a native speaker and some methods that try to “translate” phonetically the sounds in English with sounds in Spanish are not accurate and lead to fossilized

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