An Analysis Of Students' Pronunciation In Plosive Voiceless Consonants Of The Third Semester At English Language Education Of FKIP UIR

Sulistyowati, A. Indah (2022) An Analysis Of Students' Pronunciation In Plosive Voiceless Consonants Of The Third Semester At English Language Education Of FKIP UIR. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

This thesis is a study about an analysis of students pronunciation in plosive voiceless consonants (/p/, /t/, /k/) with aspiration in initial, medial and final positionat English Language Education of FKIP UIR. The student has some problem in pronouncing the words especially in pronouncing Plosive Voiceless Consonants (/p/, /t/, /k/) with aspiration in initial, medial and final positions. The design of thisresearch is descriptive qualitative Research. There are two instrument, record and test, which the test consists of 25 wordsthat took from Oxford Advanced Learner’sDictionary. The population is 65 students, and the sample is 15 students from third semester at English Language Education of FKIP UIR. From 15 students known that, there are 4 students categorized “very good� ability, 4 students categorized “good� ability, 4 students categorized “fair� ability and 3 students categorized “bad� ability. Most of the students still have difficulty in pronouncing plosive voiceless consonants especially in initial position with aspiration. The researcher hopes that the students can acquire the habit in using the correct pronunciation of English words containing English plosive voiceless consonants /p, /t/, /k/ with aspiration in initial positions correctly by checking Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and practice to pronounce the word as oftenas possible. So, they could use effectively and understand English better.

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