Fajrhama, Nuzul Elviera (2025) The Effect Of Tongue Twister Technique On Students' Pronunciation Of Tenth Grade Sma N 1 Bangko. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Nuzul Elviera Fajrhama. 2022. The Effect of Tongue Twister Technique on Students' Pronunciation of Tenth Grade SMA N 1 Bangko. Thesis. Pekanbaru: English Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Islam Riau. Keywords: Tongue Twister Technique, Pronunciation. Pronunciation is one of the abilities of English. Pronunciation becomes a crucial part of English because it can influence the meaning of the words in speaking. If there are mispronunciation while doing the conversation, it can cause misunderstanding or miscommunication. The fact that students are still stuck in pronunciation is because the written words is different from the sounds when reading. To cope with the problem, the researcher uses Tongue Twister Technique to improves students' pronunciation. Niwadays, there are many variants of techniques for learning or improving pronunciation skill, one of those techniques is a tongue twister. A tongue twister is a group of words or sentences which are constructed but difficult to pronounce. The purpose of this research is to find out thebeffect of the Tongue Twister Technique on students' pronunciation. This research is experimental. The population of this research was the tenth-grade students of SMA N 1 Bangko year 2022/2023. The sample of this research is 36 students from X5. To obtain the data the researcher did a pretest and posttest. For the pretest, the students were introducing themselves in short and for the posttest, the students were introducing themselves again. The learning process was four meetings. The result of the research showed that there are no significant effect in students' pronunciation after beingbtaught Tongue Twister Technique. The score of the pretest is 60,25 and the score of the posttest is 60,27. Therefore, there is no significant effect of the tongue twister technique on students' pronunciation of tenth-grade SMA N 1 Bangko

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