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Sisilia Virgianti - BAB123 - Skripsi - 20151124
Sisilia Virgianti - BAB123 - Skripsi - 20151124
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
improve especially for the English non native learners (Benzies. 2013. P. 1).
Pronunciation refers to produce the sounds of the words or phrases. The aspects
Foreign Language (EFL) and English as Second Language (ESL) class. Almost
English teacher in the past emphasize student to study grammar and vocabulary
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transcription of speech sound. IPA is used to describe and analyze the sound
systems of language and phonetic alphabets represent the sounds ofany language
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(Mumeneen. 2009. P. 6). It originally develop by French and British language
Phonetic alphabets can be used to show students how a word or phrase should be
Most of teacher have taught pronunciation with this method but the case is they
pronunciation skill?
2. Whether this method can give the improvement to students pronunciation
skill?
studentspronunciation skill.
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The data will be taken in English Club at SMA Utama 2 Bandar lampung. The
Phonetic Alphabet and give words list to know whether this method can give the
improvement.
I do this study to find out the benefits of learning phonetic symbol in Language
learning and how effective this method in Improving the learners pronunciation
improve the pronunciation skill, Actually this method has used in Lecturer but for
senior high school not yet.Thats way I do this research with my title Using
This research can be used by English teacher as a method which help student to
pronounce the words or phrases. It also useful for other researcher which do the
pronunciation skill.
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
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This chapter reviews studies of the importance of pronunciation , the concepts
studies related to the use of International Phonetic Alphabet to help the learners
one of English element skill which is mastered by the learners. It means the
learners have to improve to pronounce each word or phrase correctly. For non
native English speakers will get the difficulties to pronounce English word
Everyone knows that it can be difficult to produce sound when we learn another
language which different with our first languge. Many learners try to imitate their
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1. Biological Factors
The learners have accent of their first language which is influenced them
learn how to pronounce word especially native environment, so they can identify
some university there teach to students of applied linguistic. He found out there
are differences between Native English Speakers (NES) and non native English.
He want to find it from current residentsof ELT land in March 2012, They were
From his observation, he can conclude that NBS English learners should
emphasize English consonant phonemes [f], [v], [w], [z], and [s].The Bengali
learners also have to distinguish between short and long vowel sounds.
Issakainen (2006. P. 30) reports about two teachers in his experiment which face
same problem when they are teaching English especially teaching pronunciation.
They realized that learn how produce the sound. So, they emphasize more to
understood by the listeners either. Students need to focus on what they hear, not
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The Phonetic Symposium 2006 reports on a Finnish research group, Iivonen et al.,
the pronunciation and the role of teaching pronunciation itself. The Phonetic
Symposium 2006 reports that learning the sounds of a foreign language requires
sound with memory model. Memory model will influence the sound which is
conducted by Lindbolm, Lubker and Gay (1975), where the normal movement of
the lower jaw was blocked by a bite block, and yet the speaker was able to
produce the compensating sounds. The result indicates that auditory objectives
guide articulation.
good method to reinforce analytically the information which the learner may have
transcriptions in their vocabulary lists, it was interesting to know that there are
some teacher which combine this method with another method, for instances
Stringer (1998) reports that a method called Everyday Life Performance (ELP)
pretend that these scene or conversation is their own everyday life. Actors
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aid. The goal of this experiment is empirical adequacy, making students aware of
is a central component in teaching EFL. Stinger believes that one way for a non-
transcription and pronunciation. Thus, detailed study of the recording and the
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD
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This chapter describes design, phenomenon, setting and participants in the
The research uses qualitative method. The method produces descriptive data from
of students pronunciation by using reading aloud. There are five students as the
participant from SMA Utama 2 Bandar Lampung. There are two ways in this
research, i.e. observing and implementation. Firstly, i observed the situation and
the ability of the students. I am as the researcher will give words list and ask them
learning process was recorded. Finally, the data was analyzed to see the
3.2 Phenomenon
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Cresswell (2012, p.128) explains that the term phenomenon is used in qualitative
research instead of variable for the object being observed. The central
students pronunciation when the students are being taught with International
3.3 Setting
This research was conducted in SMA Utama 2 Bandar Lampung. This school is
3.4 Participants
The participants are 5 (five) students as English Clubs members in SMA Utama 2
Bandar Lampung
The data was collected by observing the students and recording teaching learning
the researcher in the school. The recording is about the process of using