Students’ words pronunciation at third semester of TBI in IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Rahayu, Mira (2015) Students’ words pronunciation at third semester of TBI in IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The research based on fact that most of students at Third Semester of TBI in IAIN Padangsidimpuanpronounce English vowel and consonant incorrectly. Many students still have difficulties in pronouncing the words. The researcher want to analyze students’ pronouncing the words. The objectives of the research areto describe students’ Words Pronunciation at Third Semester of TBI in IAIN Padangsidimpuan, to find the difficulties students’ words pronunciation at Third Semester of TBI in IAIN Padangsidimpuanand to explain the reason of difficulties in pronouncingwords at third semester of TBI in IAIN Padangsidimpuan by students and lecturer. The research used Descriptive Qualitative Method. The data taken from test, the test has given to 30 students.Then their pronouncing wordsare recorded. The test is recorded in order to prove their ability in pronunciation, especially for vowel and consonant.Sothat, the researcher can analysis the data based on recorder. Beside the test, the researcher took the data from interview. The result was found that Students’ Words Pronunciation at Third Semester of TBI in IAIN Padangsidimpuanwas stilllow score 40,35%.The students difficulties dominantly inpronouncing short vowel they are “[æ], [ǝ], [ε], [ɒ]”,and long vowel they are [a:], [o:], [ǝ] and then the students difficult in pronouncing voiceless they are [ʧ], [ʃ], [h], [s], and the last difficulties in pronouncing voiced they are [b], [z], [ʤ], [ʒ], because the said that their tongue was stiff, less of practicing and they were not habitual English words in daily life.After analyzing the data, it was concluded that Students’ Words Pronunciation at Third Semester of TBI inIAIN Padangsidimpuan was still low.

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