Investigating Developmental Stages of Acquisition of Phonological Structures Among EFL Students of Eastern Mediterranean University: A Case Study

Doing a piece of research on acquisition of second language phonetics theoretically will justify the exact stages of language transfer and further predicts the existence of systematicity and difficulty order (Eckman, 2008). The present research is an attempt to provide new evidence for the efficacy of second language acquisition to developmental stages of acquisition of phonological structures among EFL students of Eastern Mediterranean University. Accordingly, three Iranian EFL learners, including two males and a female studying at Eastern Mediterranean University are purposefully selected on the basis of their performance in the interview. In continuation, interviews were conducted three times within a range of four months with the interval of at least one month. Each interview was sound-recorded and lasted from 15 to 30 minutes. Next the pools were transcribed according to the latest conventions. Further, to ensure the ethical aspects of the research, the participants were informed about the fact that their interviews were being sound recorded. At the end, it was concluded that it is not possible to monitor the development pricess