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Capter I A. Background
Capter I A. Background
Capter I A. Background
CAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
We know that English is not only international language but also global
it hold an important role in English teaching since most of country has totally
someone speaking. It can avoid a misunderstanding when we speak with the other people.
“Pronunciation is the language faeture that most readily identifies speakers as non-native.
It is a filter through which others see them and often descriminate againts them.”
Pronunciation is the first thing that people notice when during a conversation.
It is also the most important and difficult problem that English foreign language
(ELF) student have to face when studying English. Improper pronunciation can
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successful oral skill developer is those who have a good pronunciation of English
Due to the problem above, most of the result indicates that the students have low
ability in pronunciation included the students of the second grade high school .
Based on the researchers’ observation, she got that the students still have much
difficulty when they are asked to pronounce. Besides that, based on the students’
According to harmer (2007: 59), for all those who learn english. Being
made aware of pronunciation issues will give them benefit not only to their own
means, the student who gave good pronunciation they can speak and understand
the spoken English and being understood by the others. Therefore, it is prominent
same as another word but has a different meaning (Lopez, S. J. 2009). Homophones
are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings( Limpo :
2016).
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skills. Aman Yurisaldi said game is important media. It is very good for education
learning media. The term is called out edutainment. Here, his reason to use game
the method of teaching teachers at the school only focuses on the way of writing,
therefore the researcher wants to help students improve their pronunciation more
and would like to conduct the research under the title “Improving students
B. Problem Statement
statement as follows:
1. To find out whether the use of homophone game is improve the student’s
The result of this research will be expected to be able to prove and support
other teories before, and also this result of research hopefully can provide the
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useful information about tte benefits of using homophon game in the learning
process of pronouncation. There are a lot of practically significant from the result
that can be use and usefull for teacher, students, and also subsequent researcher.
high school.