Allophone Occurrence Example [g-] Unreleased in word final position and some clusters flag [g] Lengthening.when an arresting /y/is followed by a releasing /y/ big grapes Igl 1 Bilateral release beforeA/ glad Nasal re lea pig and goat [l]or [g] Assimilated to a fronted sound geese g Rounded,before a rounded sound goose Pronunciation difficulties The English stops do not generally cause an intelligibility problem among the Chinese EFL learners but some leamners may devoice final position voiced stops so that tab may be pronounced as tap,code as coat and /li:g/as /i:k/.Lengthening the vowel before the voiced stops will aid in the perception of a voiced final stop./i/in need,for example,is usually a little bit longer than /i:/in neat when they are in ntexts.Another difficulty with the Chinese EFL leamers is the pronunciation of the stops in consonant clusters.Drill the sounds in all positions. paying close attention to the strength of production and the degree of voicing.Allophone Occurrence Example [g-] Unreleased in word final position and some clusters flag [g:] Lengthening, when an arresting // is followed by a releasing // big grapes [gl ] Bilateral release before /l/ glad [g] Nasal release, before a syllabic nasal pig and goat [] or [g] Assimilated to a fronted sound geese [g] Rounded, before a rounded sound goose Pronunciation difficulties The English stops do not generally cause an intelligibility problem among the Chinese EFL learners but some learners may devoice final position voiced stops so that tab may be pronounced as tap, code as coat and /li:g/ as /li:k/. Lengthening the vowel before the voiced stops will aid in the perception of a voiced final stop. /i:/ in need, for example, is usually a little bit longer than /i:/ in neat when they are in similar phonetic contexts. Another difficulty with the Chinese EFL learners is the pronunciation of the stops in consonant clusters. Drill the sounds in all positions, paying close attention to the strength of production and the degree of voicing