Being interested in the whole process of teaching and learning a language, researchers and linguists have attempted to describe what errors and corrective feedback are, which together form an inevitable and indispensable part of instructed second and foreign language acquisition (Hendrickson, 1987). They have tried to define them in order to help learners and teachers in dealing with deviant fo...

There was an argument that native English teachers have many advantages than non-native and students preferred to teachers; however, the had be assessed. Many researchers been exploring students’ perceptions of worldwide in formal education institutions. This study aimed explore a non-formal institution. qualitative based on descriptive approach conducted using three instruments: close-ended qu...

The model to be used depends on what our students want to use and what we are able to provide as teachers. Most AMEP clients are aiming to settle in Australia, and many AMEP teachers speak some variety of Australian English, and so this is a reasonable model for the AMEP. But familiarity with other accents – so-called native (eg New Zealand, British) and non-native (eg Chinese, German) – is als...

Foreign accent is judged by the degree to which the non-native (L2) production is perceived differently from production patterns by native speakers (NL) [1]. Both segmental and suprasegmental features are shown influential in accent perception by NL speakers or L2 learners [2]-[4]. However, roles of prosodic cues in the process are not well known yet. Our study aims to investigate effects of in...

This paper describes research on automatic assessment of the pronunciation quality of spontaneous non-native adult speech. Since the speaking content is not known prior to the assessment, a two-stage method is developed to first recognize the speaking content based on non-native speech acoustic properties and then forced-align the recognition results with a reference acoustic model reflecting n...

The teaching of English is very important for young learners in the era industry 4.0. A successful teacher largely determined by strategies he/she uses learning process. students SMP Negeri 1 Sabang were interested speaking English. They had won many events competitions and mostly reached a good score on test. This research was conducted to find out used, problems, solutions faced teachers duri...