ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the articulation of Arabic emphatic and guttural consonants of nine L1 English learners of Arabic as an L2 enrolled in various levels of Arabic instruction at a university in the United States. It provides a detailed analysis concerning how L2 Arabic learners are articulating these phones, at what level learners are typically able to differentiate their articulation of the target phones, and in what order this occurs. The chapter discusses stems from two key issues: the small amount of literature discussing phonological acquisition of Arabic among adult second language learners and the need for more technical articulatory feedback to address students' pronunciation errors. M. Amayreh and A. T. Dyson explored the acquisition of Arabic consonants as compared to the acquisition of English consonants. According to Amayreh and Dyson, the Arabic emphatic phones appear in the late stages of acquisition for L1 Arabic learners.
