A study of the American English vowel system and the difficulties of auditory discrimination for the Spanish speaking students attending to the course of mechanics at Secap during the school year 2008 - 2009

Abstract

English has been referred to as a ¨ Global Language ¨.When I was a child I had some friends that were taking English Courses and I could see that they were not improving too much. My question was: Why was it too hard? Now, I am an adult and the same friends are still struggling with English and even if they can understand written English, they can hardly recognize Spoken English Words. Sometimes, at High School some of my English teachers had different pronunciation....