THE ROLE OF BILINGUALISM IN ENHANCING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

Аннотация

The article investigates the ways in which bilingualism helps second language learners pronounce English more accurately. It is frequently discovered that bilingual people have improved auditory discrimination, improved metalinguistic abilities, and improved phonological awareness all of which help them learn how to pronounce words correctly in English. This paper makes the case that bilingualism gives students cognitive and perceptual advantages in pronunciation development by drawing on well-established linguistic theories, empirical research, and data from actual classrooms. The study also lists particular variables, such as instructional context, language distance, and age of acquisition, that mediate the relationship between pronunciation and bilingualism. Keywords: bilingualism, pronunciation, phonological awareness, second language acquisition, cognitive advantage, L2 learning.