The effects of explicit phonetics teaching to reduce typical errors in the Norwegian English accent Looking into practices in today’s EFL classrooms, and investigating whether an explicit teaching of phonetics improve students’ pronunciation.

Master´s thesis in Teacher Education, level 5-10 (EN-503) This present study investigated how the teaching of phonetics influence Norwegian learners of English’s pronunciation accuracy. It additionally looked at how learners evaluate their own pronunciation and presents some teachers’ perceptions and practices regarding phonetics and oral skills. The data collection consists of seven parts: a standard English proficiency test based on a previous English national test by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, a survey investigating student perceptions on pronunciation, a pre-test testing pronunciation regarding four target phoneme sounds (/θ/, /ð/, /w/, and /v/), a teaching in…