Babkina, V. (2018). Phonological interference of mother tongue over the English

3.5.2
 
Questionnaire
 
The purpose of the questionnaire was to define the extent to which 
each case of phonological interference studied in the research impeded 
meaningful communication. The questionnaire was prepared and offered 
to be resolved by six EFL teachers who were native or near native 
English speakers and who worked with Peruvian learners. Each teacher 
had appropriate qualifications and sound teaching experience.
In the questionnaire the extent for each case of phonological 
interference was represented by the options A, B or C; the teachers had to 
choose one variant by putting a cross below the corresponding letter they 
opted for
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. All the answers given by the teachers were calculated and 
presented in graphs. Numeric measurement was applied to see the 
outcomes of the questionnaire. 
3.5.3
 
Oral testing
 
The oral test contained seven pronunciation tasks designed for each 
problem case studied in the paper
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. The purpose of the test was to 
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evaluate the participants´ level of pronunciation proficiency before and 
after the intervention as regards the target sounds.
A teacher´s sheet was used to mark a correct/wrong answer in a 
box; further the total number of the correct answers was counted. Each 
student was provided with the task sheet and was required to read out 
words, combination of words or sentences aloud whenever evaluated 
making respective pauses.
The researcher manually recorded the answers given by the 
participants during pre-test and post-test using IPA symbols
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transcription was then analysed and the results from pre-testing and port-
testing activities were compared
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Neither the participants from the sample group nor the control 
group were aware of the intervention so that any pressure during their 
task fulfilment was avoided. The participants were verbally praised on 
making all the effort in their pronunciation improvements.