The influence of spelling on the pronunciation of English as a foreign language as made by Iraqi EFL learners at the university level : a descriptive study

Abstract EN

The main problem of this research paper is to explore the influence of spelling on pronunciation.

Students of English find difficulties in pronouncing certain words from written text.

In Arabic, students can easily pronounce words by just looking at them.

In English, there are some words which are spelt with different ways, but they have the same pronunciation.

For example, the words (rain), (rein ) and (reign), they pronounce in the same way / reɪn/ for the learners who do not mastery pronunciation in the right way, it is difficult to pronounce and they pronounce each word by looking at its spelling.

This means that they mispronounced them, because they do not know the exact relationship between sound and spelling.