Exploring EFL students’ problems in comprehending phonetics courses A Case of first year LMD Students at Mohamed Kheider University of Biskra

Abstract

Abstarct This study aims to find out the difficulties that mostly encountred by students in comprehending phonetics courses.Therfore, the appropriate research method is the descipline in which we describe the major phonetics difficulties that foreign language learners may face.Using simple random sampling , fifteen students out of 400 students and three teachers we selected as the respondents.Data were collected through a sequence of questionnaire that administred for students and an interview for teachers , which contained of three teachers and fifteen students of first year LMD students from the departement of foreign language at Biskra University. The results obtained from this present research demonstrates that students find difficulties in understanding the theoritical rules and due to a range of innapropriate working circumstances such as: time, luck of materials, the overlocked classes, teachers and students shows negative attitudes towards phonetics learning .Hence, the hypothesis is confirmed.Finaly it is recommended that phonetics should be intaught language laboratories using small groups taugh by qualified teachers given the time and the materials required.