Abstract

Abstract:This phenomenon that bilingual learners are not ableto pronounce some sounds in English Language. This issue has been the mainconcerns of different studies in the field English language teaching (ELT).Researchers and experts in this ELT have payed to challenges by non-nativeEnglish speakers from different aspects such as psychological, environmental,physical and psychological. Although different studies attempted to unfold thequestions which may influences factors in learning a second language, there aremany different points that are attractive for experts such as cross linguistic.The same as other second language learners, Iranian learners could be includedin this category. They have problem in English pronunciation and sounds such as/θ/ and /w/ and pronouncing consonant cluster (CC). It might have differentreasons such as mother tongue and lack of a good teacher and EFL text books.For that reason, this study is going to evaluate and criticize Iranianpronunciation in terms of cross linguistic. Therefore, 3 EFL students formEvazPayam-e-Nour University were selected and qualitative method wereadministered. Then, their proficiency levels in English language have beenexamined 3 times in one semester.

Keywords:bilingual,Second language learner, English sounds, Iranian pronunciation