Abstract

This study aims to reveal the role of EFL professors' pronunciation, pronunciation via online ‎Audio-Video British educational materials, pronunciation via electronic Oxford dictionary, ‎and pronunciation located in handbook dictionary transcription. The participants were ‎postgraduate students at the Departments of Arabic, History, Sociology, and Geography. The ‎total number of participants is 20 postgraduate students (5 participants from each ‎department). The study was conducted during the first semester of the academic year 2022-‎‎23. An instructional pronunciation-based- programs were prepared to teach the postgraduate ‎students pronunciation of words in the English language in different ways. A pretest was ‎used for the equalization purposes of the levels of students in pronouncing English words, ‎and an achievement test was designed to collect the data and answer the question of the ‎study. Two native persons (from England specialising in English language linguistics and ‎culture) volunteered to act as inter-raters to calculate the reliability of the student's answers ‎on the posttest. Each inter-rater inter-rated the posttest scores to ensure the students' replies, ‎the reliability ratio was 89.8 which is considered very high. The results revealed that the ‎postgraduate Sociology Department students who taught pronunciation via electronic ‎dictionary pronounced better than others. The postgraduate History Department students ‎who taught pronunciation via online Audio-Video British educational materials came in ‎second rank, the postgraduate Arabic Department students who taught pronunciation via ‎professors' pronunciation came in the third rank, and finally, the postgraduate Geography ‎Department students who taught pronunciation via handbook dictionary transcription came ‎in the fourth rank (the last rank).‎