İngilizce öğretmenlerinin telaffuz öğretimine ilişkin inançları ve uygulamaları üzerine bir araştırma Diyarbakır örneği

Teaching pronunciation impacts learning the four main skills of language so, research on this aspect can help improving the quality of language learning, and the subjects of EFL teacher' beliefs and practices are essential subjects relate to this notion. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate EFL teachers' practices and cognitions regarding pronunciation instruction at secondary and high schools in Diyarbakir, Turkey. The teachers' pedagogical ability also was in the scope. A quantitative method was adopted and a questionnaire that was originally developed by Buss (2015) was used to collect the data. This questionnaire contains open-ended questions and Likert type questions, and the data were analyzed through statistical software program. The participants of the study were 105 volunteer EFL teachers from 20 private schools. Results of the study manifested that although the bulk of the participants reported spending good time on teaching pronunciation, they spend just a third of this time teaching prosodic aspects of pronunciation. It was also obvious that teachers revolved in teaching segmental aspects by following segmental-focused activities such as repetition drills. Regarding beliefs, findings revealed that teachers deem intelligibility, the role of native speakers as a model, rejecting the use of mother tongue in pronunciation teaching in addition to other convictions. The training competency uncovered that despite teachers' self-assurance to teach pronunciation, their desire was big to receive more intensive training. The independent samples t-test results uncovered no statistically significant difference between male and female participants; however, the same test detected differences in practices between secondary and high school teachers.