An Error Analysis Of Students Pronunciation In Reading Text At The Fifth Semester Students Of English Language Education At FKIP UIR

Suryani, Fenny (2021) An Error Analysis Of Students Pronunciation In Reading Text At The Fifth Semester Students Of English Language Education At FKIP UIR. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

This thesis is a study about an error analysis in reading text at the Fifth Semester of English Language Education FKIP UIR. The students have problems to pronounce the word in reading text especially in English vowel and consonant. This research design is qualitative research. The objectives of the study to find out the most dominant errors in pronunciation. The population is the Fifth Semester of English Language Education FKIP UIR. The sample is class B. The total of subjects is 15. In data collection, researchers used reading texts and word lists as pronunciation tests and student notes. Based on the research results, it is known that the subject made the most vowel pronunciation errors. The total number of errors they made was 31 errors. It contains 10 errors in pronouncing consonants and 21 errors in pronouncing vowels. One of these 10 sounds is errors for a consonant. They are / v /, θ, / t /, / z /, / tʃ /, / d ʒ /, / ʃ /, / r /, / g /, ŋ, and / w /. The next category of errors is vowel pronunciation errors. Most of the errors occur in English vowels which Indonesian does not have. They are / ᴂ /, / eə /, and / əʊ /. They are also confused about whether to pronounce / e / or / ə /. From the result above the researcher found the causes of subjects’ error pronunciation are: 1) The different sounds between English and Indonesian, 2) They do not get enough practice on pronunciation, and 3) They are not familiar with English sound from they were young because most of them do not have family member who can speak English. In order to avoid students’ errors, the researcher suggests the lecturer to give a lot of drills and practices relating to the pronunciation. Therefore, the students can acquire the habit of using the correct pronunciation of English word containing English vowel and consonant correctly.

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