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What is the reason for their difficulty when pronounced in English? Why do they sound like a foreigner? Does the Arabic L1 phonological system facilitate or interfere with the learning of the L2 English phonological system? Do the rhythm and prosody of a language determine its patterns of stress and intonation? Do Arabic learners need to learn the syllable patterns of Arabic and English? Will they be able to pronounce English sounds or words appropriately, or intelligibly? Why does an Arabic speaker sound like a foreigner? If the Arabic speaker masters English prosody, do they have a native accent of English? Does mimicking or video help Arabic learners of English to be as native as different between Arabic and English prosody?
Training Arabic learners to place more emphasis on the pattern of the English syllable helps to eliminate the chances of predicted errors. This can be achieved by introducing short syllable patterns and then long syllable patterns in English. To achieve this, it is crucial to focus on answering questions like: How can we make Arabic learners of English sound native-like or sound good? How to improve their accent? Does learning prosody make them sound native-like?
Why do Arab learners often make this mistake in this particular sound of English? Is there a solution, tool, or technique to help them reduce the error? Is shadowing a good learning technique for fluency and developing native-like prosody?
Video and mimicking can be good to master prosody. As you can see, I have random ideas and thoughts but all of them are under phonological aspects. My big question is, can I do my dissertation without participants?
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