Jenkin's Lingua Franca Core and Autistic Children's EFL Speech Sound Production

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10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.48How to use a DOI?

Keywords

EFL speech sounds, speech intelligibility, autistic children

Abstract

This paper is trying to give a description of autistic children’s EFL speech intelligibility in terms of segmental sound production viewed from Lingua Franca Core proposed by Jennifer Jenkins as published in her book entitled The Phonology of English as an International Language (2009). It was the modification of Bryan Jenner’s the Common Core, a list of features of English pronunciation he considered essential for intelligibility anywhere in the world. It was a case study that employed two autistic children (aged eight and nine) learning their EFL in formal environment (schools and autism therapy centre). This descriptive-qualitative study reported that five out of nine aspects of EFL speech production by the two autistic children indicated the shortcomings of them. Those five aspects covered consonantal inventory, phonetic requirements, consonant clusters, vowel quantity, and nuclear stress. The drawbacks of those five aspects, however, could still be considered as to lead the way to intelligible speech with some notes upon their quality.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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