Đối chiếu âm vị phụ âm của tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt: Ý nghĩa đối với việc dạy và học ngoại ngữ

Tóm tắt

Different from absorbing the pronunciation of the mother tongue, practicing the correct pronunciation of word units in another language requires teachers and learners to have an understanding of the phonetic characteristics of both the source language and the target language. This paper aims to reinforce knowledge of pronunciation for teachers and learners of English and Vietnamese as a second or foreign language through a contrastive analysis of the two consonant phoneme systems. The method of comparison and contrast is employed to analyze the similarities and discrepancies in the articulatory features of these consonant phonemes. The findings indicate that, despite having 13 similar pairs of consonants, English consonant phonemes display a greater variety of fricatives and affricates in comparison to Vietnamese, while Vietnamese consonants comprise a set of one implosive and two palatalized sounds which are absent in English. Particular challenges and potential pronunciation mistakes that Vietnamese learners of English may confront are anticipated from these findings. The paper also carries some implications for the teaching and learning of pronunciation, including incorporating the analytic-linguistic approach which provides explicit phonetic instructions on the similarities and differences between consonant phonemes of the target and source languages.