The difficulty in articulating consonant sounds among ESL students in Okuapemman School

Animah, Joyce Amponsah and Awuni, Christiana and Mordey, Miriam Korkoa (2025) The difficulty in articulating consonant sounds among ESL students in Okuapemman School. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 25 (2). pp. 341-348. ISSN 2581-9615

The study looked at the difficulty in articulating consonant sounds among second-year ESL students in Okuapemman schools. The participants were 20 students that were chosen at random. Face-to-face oral pronunciation tests were used in this study. The chosen participants were forced to pronounce words that were carefully chosen from a form 2 English textbook, with a focus on consonant sounds. It was realised that Students have difficulty articulating some consonant sounds in English after the study. The researcher also realised that the difficulty in articulating the sounds were due to several factors such as L1 influence, overgeneralization and lack of exposure. This study also suggested that ESL teachers be exposed to proper ways for teaching good pronunciation in order to help ESL students to learn how to pronounce words correctly.