Some Difficulties Of Teaching/learning English Speech Sounds For Students Whose Native Language Is Arabic

Problems and approaches in pronunciation teaching: there are two key problems with pronunciation teaching. Firstly it tends to be neglected. an‎d secondly when it is not neglected, it tends to be reactive to a particular problem that has arisen in the classroom rather than being strategically planned ( Ken worthy 1987:P4-8)states that: Native language is one of the six variables that affect learning the pronunciation of a target language. different language have different phonological systems and different sets of phonemes . Therefore, teaching a new language entails teaching the phonemes of that target language. Since there are common phonemes between any two languages, thus focus must be done on the different ones and especially the phonemes of the target language which are not available in the native language of the learner. Therefore, an English teacher who teaches pupil's/student's whose native language is Arabic must take this factor into consideration. This could be emphasized by focusing on the similarities and differences between English phonemes and Arabic. Because of the presence of such a case, teachers teach English in Iraq face this problem In the present study, we try to shed light on this area with appropriate solutions