The teaching of phonetic transcription and its effectiveness at secondary school level
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2017
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
This dissertation is aimed at analyzing the effectiveness of teaching of
phonetic transcription for the purpose of pronunciation development at secondary
school level. The inclusion of the part of pronunciation skills has been recently
increased in the text books, at secondary school level, with the topic titled as
―Dictionary skills‖. This project is specifically directed at identifying the current
status of phonetic transcription teaching and its learning outcomes in a typical
secondary level classroom of mainstream schools of Punjab. The data was obtained in
two steps from both students and teachers. A test based on phonetic transcription was
conducted at both less-developed area and developed area schools for boys and girls
in Lahore. In addition to that, a questionnaire showing a range of 5 options at Likert
scale was developed in order to collect data from 44 teachers from public schools.
The ultimate goal for this project was to find out the status of teaching and learning
strategies in practice for the acquisition of transcription skills.