This qualitative study anchored on Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) delved into the differences and similarities that exist between the segmental phonemes of Ninorte Samarnon,(NS) the vernacular spoken by the residents of Northern Samar in the Eastern Visayas Region, and English-their second language guided by Prator’s Hierarchy of Difficulty. Specifically, this study attempted to 1) determine the hierarchy of difficulties in the phonological contrast between Ninorte Samarnon (L1) and English (L2), and 2) draw out implications for teaching the sound of English segmental phonemes to NS learners. The corpus of the study was derived from the set of utterances or sounds from native speakers of NS ESL speakers. The findings pointed out that all the four categories pertaining to the hierarchy of difficulty of the segmental contrast were found present. For those under the parallel category, since these sounds are found in the Ninorte-Samarnon and English language, these be given least emphasis in the teaching of speech sounds. However, for the reinterpreted, over differentiated both for split and new as well as underdifferented both coalesced and the case of an absent category since they have different realities under different environments, and are given new shape in English or even absent in the target language should be given emphasis in teaching. The findings of this study carried out the notion that the resulting learning difficulty could be predicted by determining those areas in the NS (L1) that are different from English (L2) the target language. Pedagogical implications grounding on the difficulties may be recommended. Thus, the speech/language teachers need to focus their instruction taking into account the categories present in the target language but are absent in the native toque, and those that are largely caused by language interference errors.
Contrastive Analysis, Segmental Phonemes, Oral Communication
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