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Pronunciation Problems of PRe Students Laina Ho co This paper examines the pronunciation problems of 40 PRC s u students from the north-eastern, central and south-eastern parts of China. Transcriptions were made from video-taped oral short talks done by the research participants. The most difficult in English phonemes for PRC students are consonants such as I 1/, Irl, /8/ at the beginning of words and Ir)/ at the end of words. The least difficult were IfI, Itfl, Ipl, fbi, ItI and Ikl. The who findings show that students with strong Chinese dialects such less as those from Central and North-eastern China tend to reproduce some Chinese sounds in English pronunciation. This observation of pronunciation problems was substantiated by 20 CELC tutors who have taught PRC students. This paper This concludes with some tips on teaching pronunciation to students from China. at Introduction The Centre for English Language Communication has been that teach ing the Intensive Engl ish Course for pre-matriculation students from the Peoples Republic of China since 1992. This is a bridging course to raise their English proficiency to the standard and that will equip them for university education. The English lessons cover mainly the four skills of listening, spe