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    “English pronunciation errors of the sounds / θ / and / ð / made by second level efl students of the Technical University Of Cotopaxi”
    (Ecuador : Pujilí : Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (UTC), 2024) Jorge Arias, Kevin Alexander; Torres Herrera, Marco Vinicio; Andrade Morán, José Ignacio
    Pronunciation errors in foreign language learning can significantly affect learners' communicative performance; some errors tend to be unconscious and are rarely corrected. This study, which adopts a quantitative approach relying on a descriptive level of research, aims to analyze common pronunciation errors between the sounds / θ / and / ð / made by second-level EFL students of the Technical University of Cotopaxi - Campus Pujilí, in the academic period April 2024 - August 2024, the sample selected for this research consists of 27 second level students of the English language pedagogy course, which consists of 9 males and 18 females randomly selected. The data were collected through an oral activity created and validated taking as a reference the instrument used by (Ercan & Kunt, 2019), during the taking of results the answers of each of the participants were recorded to be later analyzed through a descriptive statistic created by the same researcher in Excel, the pronunciation of the students was listened several times and cataloged as correct and incorrect according to established standards when compared by the way native speakers pronounced these words, the results obtained showed that the students have more problems in the pronunciation of the dull dental fricative sound / θ / as it was often replaced by the sound /t/, similarly although less frequently the voiced dental fricative sound / ð / was mostly replaced by the sound / d /, one of the reasons why these substitutions occur may be due to interference from their native language or the little knowledge that students have in the dental fricative sounds.