Investigating Ilami EFL Performance in Observing the Rules for Intonation Patterns Based on Their Gender.

The current study extracted, first, 17 general rules of intonation from authentic sources. Additionally, the present study investigated the roles that might be played by the gender of Ilami EFL teachers in observing the rules of intonation developed in the study. Finally, the study determined if intonation as a suprasegmental feature of speech is affected by gender. The population of the study involved all male and female EFL teachers in Ilam city. Using a random sampling, a number of 40 teachers (20 males and 20 females) were surveyed on interviews for their observing of 17 general rules of intonation extracted from Yavas (2006). For inferential statistics, Chi-Square tests were conducted to analyze the data. Statistical analysis was run using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Accordingly, male teachers outperformed female teachers on observing the rules of intonation.

کلیدواژه ها:

Suprasegmental aspects of speech ، Intonation ، Ilami EF teachers