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Pronunciation Mistakes Made by Foreigners – Terminological Reflections in the Margins of a Research Survey

Author(s): Michalina Biernacka
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Semiotics / Semiology, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
Published by: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
Keywords: phonodidactics; phonetic errors; terminology; terms; concepts

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present and discuss selected results of a survey study conducted on the popularity and use of particular terms in the field of phonodidactic lapsology. The study shows that specialists in the field of teaching foreign languages and in the field of speech-language pathology use the same terms while referring to different kinds of errors. Also, the definition boundaries of individual lexemes are more or less blurred, depending on the case in which they are used (for example, substitution). Moreover, the definitions of particular lexemes are frequently not precise enough and vary depending on the area of study within which they are used. Due to the fact that one of the criteria for recognizing scientific terminology is its frequency, efforts were made to take a closer look at how teachers of Polish as a foreign language most often define errors made by foreigners which consist in replacing one sound with another.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 31-39
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish