PHONOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE IN EFL CLASSES AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO ELIMINATE ITS FACTORS

Abstract

The issue of phonological interference is nowadays considered one of the main reasons that raises the problem of mispronunciation in English language instruction as a foreign language. As a result, the difficult task faced by any EFL instructor is to identify these factors that cause the problem and in find effective approaches to this A qualitative-comparative method was used to approach the issue more broadly and an interview was conducted among EFL students in order to obtain information about the reasons that lead to phonological errors in the pronunciation of English sounds as well as the correct approaches to it. Through analysis of the results of the interview, it was found that there are several factors that cause phonetic interference: the age of the learner, motivation, learning ability, amount of language use. In addition, the results show the advantage of using practical techniques over traditional approaches.