RELEVANȚA ANALIZEI CONTRASTIVE SI A ANALIZEI ERORILOR ÎN ACHIZIȚIA ELEMENTELOR DE FONETICĂ ÎN RLS. STUDIU DE CAZ ASUPRA VORBITORILOR DE ARMEANĂ.
THE RELEVANCE OF CONTRASTIVE AND ERROR ANALYSIS IN THE ACQUISITION OF PHONETICS. A CASE STUDY ON ARMENIANS LEARNING ROMANIAN

Summary/Abstract: This research is focused on highlighting, describing, explaining and classifying the phonetical errors caused mainly by the negative transfer from Armenian to Romanian, by analysing a local corpus which includes intermediary and advanced level essays, written between 2016-2019 by the students attending Romanian at „Valeri Brusov” University of Yerevan, Armenia.The analysis of interferences between mother tongue- support language- target language will touch, if case, the possible negative transfer from Russian, as most of the students were bilingual. The focus will be on identifying the role of negative transfer (aspects of positive transfer will be taken into account when they are relevant) from Armenian with specific regards to the acquisition of phonetical elements. We did not intend to undergo extended descriptions of the two languages compared, as it would not serve the main objective of this research, namely to identify, and consequently analyse those problematic areas related to learning Romanian as a foreign language by Armenians. Therefore, the purpose of contrastive analysis was mainly seen as a methodological support, a mechanism meant to predict those areas of difficulties, which after were compared to the empirical data from the corpus, and thus confirmed or invalidated.

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