The Impact of Using Audiobooks on Enhancing EFL Students’ Pronunciation at the Level of some Phonemes Case Study: Third Year Students of English at the Department of English, Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University, Jijel"

Abstract

Pronunciation; as a way of how sounds are used to convey a certain meaning, and audiobooks as talking books recorded by authors; are two concepts that can work together to develop methods of teaching English. This study was conducted to examine the effect of listening to audiobooks on EFL students’ pronunciation at the level of some phonemes. To achieve this aim, an experimental design was adopted. Participants were eighteen third year students of English at Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University- Jijel, assigned to two groups: an experimental group that received the treatment (listening to audiobooks), and a control group that did not. Participants’ pronunciation was assessed prior to and after the treatment. It was hypothesized that listening to audiobooks will result in an improvement in students’ pronunciation. The results demonstrated that the experimental group scores improved significantly after the treatment compared with those of the control group