Pronunciation instruction is a prominent factor in foreign language teaching. Since sounds play an important role in
communication, foreign language teachers must attribute proper importance to teaching pronunciation in their
classes. It is evident that communication is a mutual relationship between the speaker and the hearer. This means
that one must comprehend what he/she hears in the target language and must produce the sounds of the language
he/she is trying to learn accurately. Unless he has sufficient knowledge of the sound patterns of the target language,
he can neither encode a message to anybody nor decode the message sent by another person by learning the sounds
of the target language within his mother tongue. Therefore, pronunciation instruction is of great importance for
successful oral communication to take place since it is an important ingredient of the communicative competence
(Hismanoglu, 2006