The students’ ability in pronouncing short and long vowel at III semester of english department IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Rambe, Risna Sari (2019) The students’ ability in pronouncing short and long vowel at III semester of english department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focus about the students ability in pronouncing short and long vowel at III semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The formulates of the problem on specific question as follow: “How is the students ability in pronouncing short and long vowel at III semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan”?, “What are the students’ difficulties in pronouncing short and long vowel at III semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan ?”And “What are the effort of the Pronounciation lecture to overcome the students’ difficulties in pronouncing short and long vowel at III semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan?” and the objectives in this research is to know the students ability and the students difficulties in pronouncing short and long vowel at III semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. And to know the effort of the lecture to overcome the students difficulties. The research methodology of this research is mixed method.The subject of this research is III semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan which consist 51 students as sample. There was instrument in collecting data is oral test “short and long vowel words”. Then, the researcher analyzed the data, use mean score to find out students’ ability in pronouncing short and long vowel. Based on the result of the research, it was known that the students’ ability in pronouncing short and long vowel at III semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan could be categorized into low category, mean score 64,07 %. The students difficulties were difficult to pronounce /I/ and /ɑ/ sound in short vowel and were difficult to pronounce /i:/ in long vowel. And the students felt difficult to differenciated the words in short and long vowel, they didn’t know very well the symbol sounds of short and long vowel, and they lack in practice pronounciation of short and long vowel words in their daily life. The effort done by Pronounciation lecture to overcome the students difficulties in pronouncing short and long vowel were ask to students to understanding the theory of symbol sound especially from the students difficulties that in short sound /I/ and /ɑ/ sound and long vowel in /i:/ sound, how is the sound and how to product the sound in the mouth. And ask to students study to transcript short and long vowel words and then practice to pronounce the short and long vowel words seriously and study hard in their daily life.

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