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    “Understanding of the pronunciation of adjectives ending in -ed in 7th semester students at technical UNIVERSITY OF COTOPAXI”
    (Ecuador : Pujilí : Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (UTC), 2024-08) Bagua Icaza, Cynthia Vanessa; Galarza Moya, Eliana Marcela; Castro Bungacho, Sonia Jimena
    College students often struggle with pronouncing English adjectives that have the "-ed" ending, such as "excited," "interested," and "bored." These difficulties impact both their oral communication and academic performance. This research aimed to analyze the most common pronunciation mistakes among 7th semester students of the career of Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages, Campus Pujilí, in the academic period April 2024 – August 2024, the participants selected for this research consisted of 33 students in wich, it had been taken into account that they must have prior knowledge of the international phonetic alphabet. The data were collected through a multiple choice test created and validated, taking as a reference the instrument used by (Charpentier, 2020), the multiple-choice test was developed with 20 sentences that included an adjective ending in -ED and they had to select the correct sound among the different endings in the phonetic alphabet /t/, /d/ and /ɪd/, the answers of each of the participants were collected to be later analyzed through a descriptive analysis in a Excel chart. The findings showed that the ending they had the most difficulty recognizing was /ɪd/ and the researchers suggest a need for explicit pronunciation instruction, practice with authentic materials, individualized support for students, and, it is also recommended to do a macro research with more participants.