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Introduction

1. Background
Pronunciation is one of speaking aspects that has an important function to
communicate with others. The listeners could easily understand what they hear and
produce a clear voice to the listener when the speakers pronounce words clearly.
Making clear pronunciation gives the speaker the power to be confident when expressing
something that is to be conveyed in communicating with others (Zaigham, 2011).

Nonetheless, poor pronunciation skills are still evident in many English

classrooms. When teaching English as a foreign language, the first language of the
students may cause problems with accent and mood pronunciation of the second
language. Therefore, pronunciation needs to be taught in a method that is both
successful and creates a safe environment for students, who typically experience a lot
of anxiety while speaking English in a formal classroom setting.
The shadowing method is one way to help pupils pronounce words more

correctly. Lambert (1988) asserts that Indonesian students find it challenging to

learn English pronunciation since the phonemic structures of the two languages

are different. According to Goodwin (2001), teaching pronunciation has three

main goals: it should help students become more confident speakers, comprehend

and be understood, and be able to adjust their speech pattern in response to

environmental cues. The statement suggests that teaching pronunciation is

essential when teaching English to non-native speakers because it plays a

significant role, particularly when speaking.

Additionally, students may benefit from the shadowing technique since it

teaches them how to pronounce words accurately and introduces them to a fresh

approach to learning English, particularly in terms of pronunciation improvement.

By using this technique, it is hoped that students would gain confidence in their

ability to speak English and learn how to pronounce words accurately.

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 In addition, the researcher found some previous studies regarding the topic
mentioned above. However, there is a distinction among the research that have
mentioned on the previous studies part on point C with this research. The rprevious
studies applied quasi-experimental method while in this study the researcher would
like to apply pre-experimental research