An Analysis Of Error On Students’ Pronunciation Of English Vowels At The Sixth Semester Students Of English Language Education Department At Universitas Islam Riau

Sariani, Sariani (2021) An Analysis Of Error On Students’ Pronunciation Of English Vowels At The Sixth Semester Students Of English Language Education Department At Universitas Islam Riau. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

Pronunciation is one of the important components in English learning that has to be mastered by the learners. However, to have good skill in English pronunciation is challenging for a large number of English language learners, particularly in a place where English is learnt as a foreign language. Based on the problem, the objective of this research is to find out what kinds of students’ errors in pronouncing English vowels and what factors caused the students’ errors in pronouncing English vowels at the sixth semester students of English Language Education Department at Universitas Islam Riau. The research design was qualitative research that involved 17 students at the sixth semester of English Language Education of Universitas Islam Riau. The students were asked to measure their pronunciation by fill in an online questionnaire through Google Form and also pronunciation recorded. The questionnaire was taken from existing questionnaire from Mulansari, Basri & Hastini (2014) with minor revision to adjust with this research context. Meanwhile, the students recording were taken from Cambridge Advanced Student’s Dictionary Third Edition consist of 48 words from 12 English Vowels. The researcher analyzed the students’ responses by the factors caused errors and kinds of errors. This research finding showed that most of the students’ errors are in misformation, followed by crosslingual subtitution, interlingual subtitution, miscellaneous subtitution, and omission. For the factors caused the errors, it was found that internal factor is the most dominant. It refers to the students’ motivation in learning English that plays important role in learning.

Item Type: Thesis (Other)
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ContributionContributorsNIDN/NIDK
SponsorHadijah, Sitti1020048803
Uncontrolled Keywords: Analysis, Error, pronunciation, vowels, cause.
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions: > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Febby Amelia
Date Deposited: 18 Jun 2022 03:26
Last Modified: 18 Jun 2022 03:26
URI: http://repository.uir.ac.id/id/eprint/11465

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