Assignment 2 (Burhanuddin I., Eko Deny N, Izzi M., Pratama Cipta Agi M.

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Ubaidillah)
Answer for question 1 and 2
No Types of Word Wrong Correct Pronunciation
mistake Pronunciation
1 consonant Ask a:ks a:sk
2 consonant Eight eɪɡh eɪt
3 consonant Thought tɔːt θɔːt
4 vowel Determine deˈtɜː.maɪn dɪˈtɜː.mɪn
5 vowel Bride brid braɪd
6 vowel Great grit greɪt
7 stress Presentation ˌprez. ə nteɪ.ˈʃ ə n ˌprez. ə nˈteɪ.ʃ ə n
8 stress Committee ˈkəmɪt.i kəˈmɪt.i

3. Indonesian people make mistakes in pronouncing English words can be

attributed to some reasons: difficulty in pronouncing diphthongs and low English
proficiency.

Indonesian people make errors or mistakes in pronouncing English words

can be attributed to difficulty in pronouncing English diphthong. Yong (2001)
argues that Indonesian people tend to realize English diphthong as pure vowels
which may be pronounced in the long or short forms. They tend to substitute
English diphthongs into vowels which are common in Indonesian (Sumbayak,
2009) for example, the word great (greɪt) is pronounced as (grit) by Indonesian
people.

The level of English proficiency is also the cause of errors or mistakes in

pronouncing English words. Riyani & Prayogo (2013) stated Indonesian speaker
who have low English tend to make errors in pronouncing English words because
they often over generalized in pronouncing the words for example, the word
“determine” which should be pronounced as (dɪˈtɜː.mɪn) is pronounced as
(deˈtɜː.maɪn). Some people think the word ‘mine’ should be pronounced as
(maɪn). They over generalize the word ‘mine’ in determine word is pronounced
same as in the word mine which means punyaku. Because of having low
proficiency, people also pronounce the word eight as (eɪɡh) instead of (eɪt).

4. One of the most popular methods used in teaching English speaking is

audio lingual method. Communicative drilling is an effective technique to
improve the FL learners’ pronunciation accuracy. As stated by Senel (2006) cited
from Siswanto and Wiryanto’s research (2012) that drilling technique is very
useful to improve students pronunciation as it can encourage student to produce
because accurate pronunciation. Teacher can provide several exercises about
drilling technique to make students aware the difference between particular
words, for example comparative drill exercise to distinguish between the words
great and greet, or bride and bridge.

While for solving the word-stressing problem, teacher can provide the
explanation about the pattern of English word stress for example the word
presentation. Its stress is on the third syllable because according to Mutonono
(2016) the words which end with -tion has the stress on the syllable before last.

References

Haryanto, E., & Riswanto. (2012). Improving Students’ Pronunciation through

Communicative Drilling Technique at Senior High School (SMA) 07 South
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Mutonono, E. (2016, June 20). English Word Stress. Retrieved from Elena
Mutonono: https://www.elenamutonono.com/2016/06/20/english-word-stress/
Riyani, O.I. & Prayogo, J.A. (2013). An Analysis of Pronunciation Errors Made
by Indonesian Singers in Malang in Singing English Songs. State University of
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Sumbayak, D.M. (2009). The Diphthongs: The Obstacles for Indonesian Speakers
of English. University of Riau.
Yong, J,Y. (2001). Malay/Indonesian speakers. In Swan, M. & Smith, B. Learner
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