TY - JOUR ID - TI - The Impact Of Glottal Stop in Spoken Iraqi Arabic(SIA) on Fluency in English as a Foreign Language( An Evaluation Study) AU - Ali H. Muhammad Aljumaily علي حسين الجميلي PY - 2010 VL - 2 IS - 4 SP - 319 EP - 337 JO - JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL & CULTURAL STUDIES an academic magazin مجلة الدراسات التاريخية والحضارية SN - 20231116 88192663 AB - Abstract:This Paper deals with glottal stop in Spoken Iraqi Arabic and its impact on fluency in English as a foreign language .An approach evaluated from the segmentation is used to consider glottal stop as an independent phoneme. Glottal Stop is“ holding back of the compressed air followed by a sudden release.”(O’connor,1988:14). This research aims at investigating glottal stop and its impact on fluency in English and to help students by increasing their reading speed by practice and fluency in conversation. The hypothesis indicates that glottal stop in the native language has its impact on fluency in English, and how might one identify the remedy to get rid and overcome the difficulty. In conclusion, evaluating and constructing both the objective of the study and the analysis of results which were to follow .

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