EFL learners mastery level of phonemic symbols and broad-narrow transcription: the case of second year undergraduates students at Bordj Bouarreridj university

Abstract EN

The present study aims at identifying the mastery level of phonemic symbols together with broad and narrow transcription among EFL Algerian university learners.

the researcher worked with 226 second-year undergraduate students of English at Mohamed el-Bachir el-Ibrahimi university of Algeria who were enrolled in the first semester of 2020 / 2021.

to statistically investigate the level of mastery of EFL learners, the researcher adopted the analytical descriptive approach.

two separated tests were conducted at the end of the first two chapters, which were programmed for the first term.

results achieved have shown that the majority of EFL learners failed to acquire the phonemic symbols together with transcription skills in its two levels (phonological and phonetic).