@article{2018,title={AN EVALUATION OF JUNCTURE PHONEMES OF IF-STATEMENTS IN PROSPECTIVE TURKISH TEACHERS OF ENGLISH},abstractNode={The purpose of the present study is to investigate the competence levels of prospective Turkish teachers of English in perceiving and producing the juncture phonemes of If-statements accurately in English. It further aims to rehabilitate any occurrences of errors by way of remedial sessions utilizing various auditory and visual exercises on the recognition and production of juncture phonemes utilizing Grammar Intonation Model (Cauldwell & Hewings, 1996) and Audio-Articulation Method (Demirezen, 2003). The study was carried out at the English Language Teaching (ELT) department of a state university in Turkey in association with 61 pre-service Turkish teachers of English in the spring term of 2015/16 academic year. Both written and oral pre-test and post-test were administered to evaluate the participants’ level of competence on the perception and production of juncture phonemes in If-statements. Data were analyzed both descriptively and inferentially. It was discovered that there was a significant advancement in the participants’ competence in relation to the recognition and production of juncture phonemes. It was further revealed that remedial training sessions reinforced the improvement of the participants’ problems with juncture phonemes.},author={İbrahim Halil TOPAL},year={2018},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}