The written perception of North American English (NAE) longvowels by non-native English foreign language instructors in Turkey

The aim of this research is to analyze the underlying phonetic process that non-native Turkish Foreign Language teachers go through in producing long vowels in North American English (NAE). Therefore, the target of the study is to concentrate on the written phonetic perception of long vowels by Turkish Foreign Language teachers who mainly work at preparatory departments of universities and teach adults the NAE. Based on the concepts of perception, the purpose of this thesis is to unearth the degree of knowledge of EFL non-native teachers about the long vowels in North American English (NAE) along with their awareness through the written test. 40 non-native teachers who work at universities took place in the study. The participants are EFL teachers who work at preparatory schools of different universities. In order to collect data, a range of tests were conducted in terms of the written test as the main instrument. After the implementations of the pre and post-test, the analysis was obtained through SPSS package program. The findings are expected to reveal whether the EFL non-native teachers at universities will be successful in the written phonetic test or not. According to the results of the written test, the most problematic long vowel sound will be tried to be found after the comparison between the pre and the post test scores that will enable non-native English teachers to improve the abilities of long vowels in NAE.