TY - JOUR ID - TI - Some Difficulties Of Teaching English Consonants for Students Whose Native Language is Arabic AU - Ghazi Faik Rafik PY - 2013 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 19 JO - Journal of Kirkuk University Humanity Studies مجلة جامعة كركوك للدراسات الانسانية SN - 19921179 AB - Abstract Teaching English Consonants to Arab students The process of teaching English phonemes to learners whose native language is Arabic involves some difficulties, this is due to the non-identically of the phonemes of both languages, that leads to interference. To overcome this problem, the current study sheds light on the problematic areas.A comparison between the articulations of the non- identical counterpart phonemes of both languages is conducted. The significant role of English teacher in helping Arab learners is clarified in the study. The study ends with some conclusions.

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