Students’ difficulties in pronouncing fricative consonant the fourth semester period 2018/2019 English Department students IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Situmeang, Imam Tarmizi (2019) Students’ difficulties in pronouncing fricative consonant the fourth semester period 2018/2019 English Department students IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This thesis is a research about the Pronunciation of English Fricative by the students in the fourth semester of English Department in Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty IAIN Padangsidimpuan academic year 2018/2019. The research question is what the students’ difficulties in pronouncing fricative consonant and what makes it difficult. The objective of this research is to know the students’ difficulties in pronouncing fricative consonant and the difficulties factor. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. The research is done at State Institute For Islamic Studies (IAIN) Padangsidimpuan which addressed on Jl. H. Tengku Rizal Nurdin KM.4,5 Sihitang, Padangsidimpuan Tenggara, Kota madya Padangsidimpuan, North Sumatera, Indonesia. The participants consist of 9 students at the fourth semester of TBI-2 in Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty IAIN Padangsidimpuan in academic year 2018/2019. The data present that the students’ difficulties in pronouncing English fricative consonant sounds are; the different elements between native language and the target language (//,/ð/,//), the same phonetic feature in both language but differ in their distributions (/v/,/f/,/ჳ/,/z/,/s/and/h/). The dominant difficulty in producing English Fricative sounds are sound /ð/- voiced dental fricative in initial word position and //- voiceless dental fricative in initial word position. 9 out of 9 students mispronounce sound /ð/ and 9 out of 9 students mispronounce sound //. All of the students pronounce sound /ð/ and // inappropriately. Whereas, the factor of its difficulties are the affect of mother tongue or first language, unsuccessful in using borrowed English words, lack of knowledge about English fricative sounds, prefers to speak Batakness rather than English and less of pronunciation practice

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