A contrastive analysis of diphthongs between english and indonesian

Sartika, Musliha Dewi (2013) A contrastive analysis of diphthongs between english and indonesian. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

Text 083400024.pdf - Accepted Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike. Download (2MB)

Abstract

The research was taken based on fact that most of Indonesian students pronounce English diphthong incorrectly. Many students face troubles when they pronounce English word, because they sometimes pronounce them quite different from what the native speaker do. The researcher want to investigate the differences and the concords of diphthongs between English and Indonesian. The aims of the research were to analyze and find English diphthongs, to analyze and find Indonesian diphthongs, to find out the concords between English and Indonesian diphthongs, to find out the differences between English and Indonesian diphthongs. The research was conducted with library research. The data were collected from English and Indonesian languages books and other references. The instrument in collecting data was documentation. Data was processed and analyzed with qualitative process. The result are the number of diphthong in English are more than in Indonesian. Diphthong in English are [iə],[eə], [uə], [ei], [ɑi], [ɔi], [əu], [au]. Diphthongs in Indonesian are [ai], [au], [oi] and [ei]. The concords between English and Indonesian diphthongs are: [ai], [au], and [ei]. The differences between English and Indonesian diphthong is [oi], because vowel o in diphthong English, it is not so open. Then diphthongs [iə],[eə], [uə], [ɔi], [əu], is nothing in Indonesian diphthongs. After analyzing the data, it was concluded that there were the concords and differences between English and Indonesian diphthongs.

Actions (login required)

View Item