Students’ Pronunciation Development: A Case Study of Sunrise Boarding School, Nepal

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate English pronunciation problems among Nepalese
students and to develop the students’ pronunciation in Sunrise Boarding School,
Nepal. Sixty Nepalese students were the participants of this study. Before
treatment, a pretest was designed to evaluate the students’ mispronunciation. The
pretest result showed 10 mispronounced English sounds. The dominant stage of
this study was treatment in which posters and online lessons were used to support
the students’ process of pronunciation learning. The lessons were designed based
on Interaction Hypothesis (IH), the belief that learners will have development in
L2 if they face difficulties and make an effort to interact with other speakers. The
results reveal that the students can pronounce English sounds more accurately as
problematic sounds were corrected during the treatment.