A correlational study on personal and environmental factors that hinder a native-like english pronunciation of vowel sounds in fourth and fifth-year students at the Western Multidisciplinary Campus of the University of El Salvador, semester II, 2017

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For a sample size of 45 fifth-year students of Seminar II, the researchers found nonlinear, polynomial correlation coefficients between each of the independent variables, Personal Factors and Environmental Factors, and English Phoneme Pronunciation Accuracy EPPA of Vowel Sounds, the dependent variable. Some personal sub variables, like introversion/extroversion, induced nonlinearity, due to their peak located somewhere in the scale instead of one extreme

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Spoken languaje, basic terms, vowel phonetic, pronunciation problems

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