Every English teacher nightmare: Pronunciation errors in Spanish-speaking learners of English
By Livan David Soriano Ortega-20171001085 Oscar Humberto Mendoza Carias-20151021866 Yeimy Walesca Herrera Cruz-20181002224 Before starting to discuss some of the problems that English learners could face in their learning journey, we would like to share with you some important information that is vital to understand the context of why we are creating a blog to address pronunciation errors in Spanish speakers. Firstly, it is important to know the technique called Error Analysis and it’s background history. Error Analysis is used to spot, categorize and explain all the errors made by students who are learning English as a second or foreign language. It first became visible in the 1960s to substitute the job that contrastive analysis couldn’t do; to account all the errors a learner of English could do. Knowing this there was a necessity to solve this problem because it was, and still being viewed in language learning as the result of not accurate use of the phonetic or grammatical r...