Learning to produce and transcribe cardinal vowels: speech and language therapy students' perception of task difficulty.

Publisher: Informa Healthcare Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8802622 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1464-5076 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02699206 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Clin Linguist Phon Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: London : Informa Healthcare
Original Publication: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, c1987-

Phonetics* ; Language Therapy*/methods ; Speech Therapy*/methods; Humans ; Female ; Male ; Adult ; Young Adult ; Learning ; Students/psychology ; Speech/physiology

Learning vowel transcription skills is crucial to function as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT). However, vowel transcription is commonly regarded as particularly difficult and therefore often avoided. Despite the importance of accurate transcriptions, little is known about all the factors that influence the process of learning vowel transcription, which usually includes the learning of the Cardinal Vowel (CV) system. There are only a few studies that investigate how CVs are learnt and what factors lead to successful learning. The current study reports students' perceived difficulty of producing and transcribing CVs as a first step to identify how perceived difficulty affects phonetic learning. Perceived difficulty ratings for the production and transcription of 12 CVs collected from 155 students studying towards a qualification as an SLT were analysed. The results show that the classificatory features correlate with the perceived task difficulty of production and transcription. Implications for teaching are outlined.

Keywords: Phonetics; cardinal vowels; clinical phonetics; international phonetic alphabet; teaching and learning

Date Created: 20240416 Date Completed: 20241220 Latest Revision: 20241220

20241220

10.1080/02699206.2024.2336252

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