AEPA ESL (NES ESOL 507) Practice Questions - AEPA Arizona NES English To Speakers Of Other Languages (ESOL) (507) Exam

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A teacher notices that a Spanish-speaking English learner consistently pronounces "ship" as "sheep" and "bit" as "beet." Which area of phonology is most directly responsible for this difficulty?

The student cannot distinguish the English /i/ and /ɪ/ vowel contrast because it does not exist in Spanish The student is overgeneralizing English spelling-to-sound rules The student is producing a morphological error in vowel inflection The student is applying English stress patterns incorrectly

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The student cannot distinguish the English /i/ and /ɪ/ vowel contrast because it does not exist in Spanish

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