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As the pair above are all pronounced with different mouth positions as well as

different lengths, focusing on that can help students distinguish between the
minimal pairs above even if they do not fully get the hang of vowel length

b. Other Vowel
In common with most learners of non-sepaking english students, especially the
Spanish speaker, the words ‘cat’ and ‘cut’ difficult to notice and produce. Likewise,

the words ‘boat’ and ‘bought’ difficult to distinguish. Even for spanish speaker they

can not mentioned the unstresses schwa sound ‘er’ in ‘computer’ or ‘fur’ and ‘her’.
Thus it is difficult for Spanish accent to recognise not rhotic version of vowel sounds

Here are some vowel sounds and their corresponding mouth movements:

u as in “boot” or “blue” [bu:t] ɑ: as in “lot” and “otter”
['ɑ:tər] and “water”

Figure 3.2. Mouth movements of vowel sound

Vowel and its common pronunciation problems

Task 2: Practice saying these

a) Bag beg e). beach bitch i).butt boot

b) Calf cough f). work walk j). food foot
c) Hell hill g). bird bored k). coat court

d) Bait bet h). butt bet

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