الفهرس 
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Abstract
This thesis aims to investigate the common pronunciation problems that face Egyptian university students learning English consonant sounds and rectify the problematic sounds in pronouncing RP consonant sounds. It is an empirical study presenting an applied contrastive analysis between Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and the Received Pronunciation of British English. The participants of the study are fifty-two Egyptian university students who have been randomly selected from the Faculty of Languages and Translation at Sadat Academy and the Center of Languages and Translation at Cairo University. The study implemented an oral test instrument to measure the pronunciation of the students before and after adopting the contrastive analysis in learning English consonant pronunciation. The results of the pre-test have shown that the students have faced difficulties in pronouncing a group of eleven consonant sounds including /p/, /t/, /d/, /ð/, /θ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /ŋ/, /l/, and /r/. Consequently, the students have attended a pronunciation course based on Bloom’s taxonomy to resolve their errors. The results of the post-test have proved the development of the pronunciation of students. It has shown that using contrastive analysis has a significant effect on 92.3% of students’ pronunciation of English consonants. The results of the overall pre- and post-oral test have been analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Science ”SPSS” which has validated that the study is statistically significant. Hence, this thesis has contributed to settling that contrastive analysis is advantageous and has a substantial effect in learning the pronunciation of English as a second language.
Keywords: applied research, contrastive analysis, pronunciation, consonant sounds, Egyptian university students, SPSS.