The Extent of the Prevalence of Pronunciation Problems among Students of the First Primary Stage in the Point of View of their Teachers and Treatment Methods
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This research aims to learn more about the nature and scope of the speech disorder problem among first graders informed the perspective of both classroom teachers' and students' experiences with available interventions. The descriptive approach was relied on to achieve the study's objectives with its quantitative and qualitative methods. The study consisted of two instruments: the first tool was a questionnaire prepared by researchers. It consisted of 40 paragraphs divided into four areas. It was distributed to a sample of 47 primary school teachers in Nablus and Amman. They were selected most feasibly. Concerning second tool , it was an interview that consisted of 4 questions through which methods of treating speech problems were reached. It was found that there are no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α≤ 0.05) between the responses of the study sample members about the prevalence of pronunciation problems among the first primary stage students in the point of view of their teachers due to each of the variables (gender, years of experience). The most important methods of treating pronunciation problems were to practice pronouncing some words and sounds and continuing to repeat them and evaluation by teachers and parents. We hope that the valuable results presented by this study will be used to treat pronunciation problems depending on their type of problem

Journal
Title
educational Administration: Theory and Practice
Publisher
educational Administration: Theory and Practice
Publisher Country
Turkey
Indexing
Scopus
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None
Publication Type
Online only
Volume
29
Year
2023
Pages
19-33