¹Phan Thi Minh Uyen,²Nguyen Thi Hong Diem

^1,2Tay Do University

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i6-51

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ABSTRACT

This survey research presents the process of the study more spacing: “Difficulties in learning pronunciation of English- majored freshmen at Tay Do University”. This research is conducted to figure out common problems in learning pronunciation of the students majoring in English. In the research, the participants in this study are 30 students in class 16A English majored freshmen at Tay Do University. The two main instruments of the research are questionnaire and interview. The results of this research will point out the students’ difficulties in attitude, motivation, word stress, intonation and accent, etc. Therefore, this research also helps students recognize problems and they can easily find solutions to improve their pronunciation skills.

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