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Perception Of English Vowels By Javanese And Sundanese Speakers; A Mouse-Tracking Study, Arum Perwitasari
Perception Of English Vowels By Javanese And Sundanese Speakers; A Mouse-Tracking Study, Arum Perwitasari
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
Second language (L2) learners often encounter difficulties caused by the interference of their native language (L1). The aim of this study is to examine how the Javanese and Sundanese vowel systems hinder the perception of ten English vowels. Thirty Javanese, thirty Sundanese, and twenty English native speakers participated in a mouse-tracking experiment. Participants were required to identify English vowels corresponding to an auditory token by clicking on one of two word strings presented on a computer screen. According to the Speech Learning Model (SLM) hypothesis, the Javanese and Sundanese speakers were predicted to have higher error rates and show a …