A description of intelligibility in fossilized English pronunciation of mentor teachers to native English speakers

Abstract

Fossilization is a phenomenon that usually occurs doe to interlanguage and is widely observable, especially in second language learners. Such fossilization may affect the communication of the speaker and listener, especially if the conversation happens to Second Language Learner and native English speaker. Although mispronunciation is present in SLL, still there are words that seemed to be intelligible toward the native speaker. Pronunciation is a key for successful communication; however, the mispronunciation occurrence is inevitable due to the interference of the native tongue. Eventually, second language learners commonly have a problem with their pronunciation and in their word production. This is being labeled as fossilized, and the questions of tis intelligibility arise. This study is focused on the description of the intelligibility of fossilized English pronunciation by elementary mentor teachers. The researchers used a corpus composed of English words that are commonly mispronounced by Filipinos. using the qualitative descriptive method, the researchers described some fossilized English words (intelligible and unintelligible) pronounced by the three key informants who are elementary teacher. All gathered data were validated by our respondents who are the native English speakers. The beneficiaries of this research are the administrators or school division program heads, future teachers, and future researchers.