Teaching Proper English to Malaysian Speakers: Focusing on the Vowels, Consonants, Syllable and Stress

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Teaching Proper English to Malaysian Speakers: Focusing on the Vowels, Consonants, Syllable and Stress

The English spoken by a typical Malaysian tends to have a simplified sounds system, which makes the speaker unintelligible to native and other English speakers. This paper discusses the mispronunciations of vowels and consonants, misplaced syllable and improper stress when Malaysians speak in Englis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Baba, Ricardo
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	David Publishing 2013
Subjects:	proper English consonants vowels Malaysian English speakers stress syllable
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62279

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