A SIMPLE ‘HOME RECIPE’ FOR MAKING
‘TASTY’ SOUNDS
By Yvonne C.J. Wotulo
English has truly proven itself to be the most internationally used language – particularly in speaking – by non-native speakers. In this case, there’re two kinds of non-native English speakers: the speakers who have English as a second or additional language, and the growing number of speakers, which have reached 750 million (Graddol, The Future of English?, 1997), learning English as a foreign language (EFL).
The number of EFL learners has in years grown rapidly especially because of the globalization era, that requires the use of English. Since these learners are spread in various kinds of areas which have their own unique local languages, it has become difficult for the learners to speak English fluently. They may have certain accents. These accents, as well as the patterns of error that the learners repeatedly make, reflect the......
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