The Development Process of Foreign-language Pronunciation Skills Formation Model in Ethnic Audience (German and Kazakh Languages Examples)

Abstract

The most important issue in educational process is foreign languages learning. Nowadays our country widely develops business and cultural ties with German-speaking countries. The ability to communicate in German is extremely important for development of relations, efficiency of contacts and achievement of communication objectives. Students language training has to be focused on the formation of communicative competence. The most significant thing in these conditions is the formation of pronunciation skills in German. Research problem concerns the importance of pronunciation skills development which is revealed by the ways of consideration of the psychological basis of perception processes, reproduction and understanding of oral foreign-language speech. The issue of accent overcoming is also studied. Participants and their attributes. The importance of studying a phoneme as a segment unit of German and Kazakh languages was proved in this research. The phenomena of synharmonism, accommodation, assimilation, dissimilation and their types in both languages were studied properly. Phonotactical features of sounds in German and Kazakh languages were revealed by consideration of phonetic syllable types, structures of Kazakh and German syllables, phenomena of prosthesis, epenthesis, metathesis, epithese and elision. The concrete theoretically predicted manifestations of interfering influence of Kazakh language on pronunciation of learning German are revealed with the help of research methods. Constructive research and analysis of experimental data resulted in revealing the types of paradigmatic and syntagmatic interference of the Kazakh language in the field of German pronunciation. Outcomes of the research are described in charts which demonstrate comparative illustrations. The issues of a word stress and intonation constructions in both languages were also compared for eliciting phonetic and phonological peculiarities of German and Kazakh languages. In conclusion, analysis of pronunciation mistakes showed that an interference action exists in students’ pronunciation who study in Kazakh department. Reliability of research results was received on the basis of theoretical analysis. The phonetic level of German and Kazakh languages was confirmed after the data research by the way of the mistake analysis. Implications for future research can be observed in the following: the offered technique on development of skills of German pronunciation, received scientific and practical results can be used in the course of learning German in Kazakh audience, but it doesn't apply for an exhaustive solution of pronunciation skills formation issue.

 

Keywords: teaching foreign language; pronunciation skills formation model; ethnic audience; German and Kazakh languages