A Comparative Study Of English And Oromo Segmental Phonenes Wih Its Implications For Teaching English As A Foreign Language

The ~ain ohiective of this stl1dy was to fi nd out therndifficulties OrOIDO l ear ners of fn~lish ~ay have in pronouncingrncertajn English sounds.rnAccording to Contr3.stivd 1nal,'sis (CJl. ) hyryothesis, inrnl~arninq the nron1.1nciation of a second lananaa"! "'E, tenc' tornpronounce the foreirm souno.s accon"! ncr to the T)honologicalrnsystem of our Plother tongue , which IDaans that w ,:) replace themrnby th:·' nGBrGst sounds in our nat.ive lanollBoe. This i'3 sornb"cause, in liste nina to t h e ·tarr"Tet lanauaqe we 'lear thernfor.:'.ian sounds as if th 2Y were rati ve so 1m (1..S •rnell tbat a secnnrt lSrallaae learner Play find hisrntara,et l arauaae difficult or relativelv easy . In the realmrnof phonoleC'y the diffic1.,l ty of l' 'H' con" lanquaC[(, '.Japends bethrnon thE> sounr1s thel"selves and on their ability to combine .rnTo verify this clai ,,, of c.i (~ ~pir.ically, f? nativernsneakers of (romo ~ere given two tests: c]iscrimination andrnnroductior tests . The discrimiration test I,'as a.j.ffi

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