The Connection Between the Ear , the Process of Hearing and Good Pronunciation Among EFL Learners at the University Level

Abstract

The relationship between the ear and pronunciation is a main feature of language acquisition . Hearing is an active cognitive function . Before a student can produce a sound , they must first perceive it . If a student cannot hear the difference between the two sounds , they will fail to produce them correctly .When a person speaks , his/her ears act as a monitor .Pronunciation is a hearing-based skill . Students who develop high-level auditory discrimination are better equipped to control their vocal organs, adjust their articulation and achieve near-native pronunciation . The study involved 50 academic students of the second year , the Department of English / College of Education / University of Misan for the academic year 2026. The findings indicated the data which revealed 32% performance gap between the students' auditory discrimination ability and their oral production proficiency . This difference highlighted that while the majority of participants could identify the sounds correct , a significantly smaller proportion was able to produce them accurately . These results serve as the foundation for the comparative analysis