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IJLLL 2025 Vol.11(1): 29-32
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2025.11.1.569

Research on Vowel Production by EFL Children Learners from the Shanghai Dialect Area

Wanying Xiao
Department of Literature, Faculty of Humanities, The Open University of China, Beijing, China
Email: Xiaowy@ouchn.edu.cn (W.Y.X.)

Manuscript received August 30, 2024; revised October 11, 2024; accepted November 27, 2024; published February 28, 2025.

Abstract—In order to explore the acquisition of English vowels by children with Shanghai dialect, this paper investigates 20 children whose native language is Shanghainese, and also investigates the pronunciation of 20 native American native English speakers. Considering the results of the acoustic analysis, we examined the accuracy of pronunciation of English learners in Shanghai, and the order of learning of English vowel /i, ɪ, ɛ, æ, ɑ, ɔ, u, ʊ, ʌ, ɜ/ and the influence of Shanghainese. Based on the analysis, the possible acquisition order of Shanghai children could be /i/ , then comes /ɑ, ɔ, ɪ, æ, ɜ, ʌ/ and /ɛ, u, ʊ/.. The experimental results partially support Flege’s Speech Learning Model theory (SLM). The similarity of vowels may have less influence on the English vowel acquisition, in fact, the process of language learning is actually the process of getting rid of the influence of mother tongue interference. This paper can be a reference for the English vowel teaching and learning in different dialect areas in China and also other countries in the world, especially in Shanghai. Besides, this paper also provides a research reference for Chinese students’ second language acquisition of English with different dialects.

Keywords—vowel acquisition, EFL children learners, Shanghai dialect area, experimental study

Cite: Wanying Xiao, "Research on Vowel Production by EFL Children Learners from the Shanghai Dialect Area," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 29-32, 2025.

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