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The Effects of Voiceless Glottal Fricative /h/ sound on the spoken English Language in Non-Native Contexts: A case Study of Sagamu Local Government Primary School Teachers

Authors: OYINLOYE COMFORT

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: European Journal Of Scientific Research

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The paper focused on the study of the effects of voiceless glottal fricative /h/ sound on the spoken English in non-native contexts. The study adopted pretest post-test experimental design. Two research questions were answered, and one hypothesis was tested. The population of the study consisted of 46 primary school teachers in Sagamu Local Government, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria. The participants were a combination of the major tribes in Nigeria: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo linguistic backgrounds. The instrument used was a reading passage which was given to the participants to get their pretest scores after which they were exposed to a four-week study of classroom teaching which served as a post-test. Descriptive statistics (Mean, Standard Deviation) and inferential statistics (paired t-test) were used to answer research questions and test hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that among the common errors made by the teachers were in pronouncing /h/ sound are /’hapi/ for [api] (deletion), /eg/ for [heg] (insertion). The study also revealed that one of the effects of the errors made in English pronounciation of /h/ sound among others is wrong communication between the listeners and the speakers as a result of wrong pronounciation of /h/ sound of English language. The study also found that exposition teaching strategy was effective in the group and the teachers had significant improvement in the use of voiceless fricative glottal speech sound /h/.

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OYINLOYE,C. . (2019). The Effects of Voiceless Glottal Fricative /h/ sound on the spoken English Language in Non-Native Contexts: A case Study of Sagamu Local Government Primary School Teachers, 154 (), 294-294.

OYINLOYE,C. . "The Effects of Voiceless Glottal Fricative /h/ sound on the spoken English Language in Non-Native Contexts: A case Study of Sagamu Local Government Primary School Teachers" 154, no (), (2019): 294-294.

OYINLOYE,C. and . (2019). The Effects of Voiceless Glottal Fricative /h/ sound on the spoken English Language in Non-Native Contexts: A case Study of Sagamu Local Government Primary School Teachers, 154 (), pp294-294.

OYINLOYEC, . The Effects of Voiceless Glottal Fricative /h/ sound on the spoken English Language in Non-Native Contexts: A case Study of Sagamu Local Government Primary School Teachers. 2019, 154 ():294-294.

OYINLOYE,COMFORT , . "The Effects of Voiceless Glottal Fricative /h/ sound on the spoken English Language in Non-Native Contexts: A case Study of Sagamu Local Government Primary School Teachers", 154 . (2019) : 294-294.

O.COMFORT , "The Effects of Voiceless Glottal Fricative /h/ sound on the spoken English Language in Non-Native Contexts: A case Study of Sagamu Local Government Primary School Teachers" vol.154, no., pp. 294-294, 2019.

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