ABSTRACT
The
final project mainly aims at determining the dominant errors made by the students
in pronouncing the words containing English voiceless plosive consonants. This
study was conducted because in Indonesia have one variant only. On the other hand, in English has more
than one variant. They are aspirated and not aspirated. Therefore, it is
possible that the students find some difficulties to pronounce the words
containing English voiceless plosive consonants.
A pronunciation test was used to gather the
data. Twenty four (24) sentences were pronounced by the students. The students’
pronunciation were transcribed into phonetic transcription and then analyzed.
The test was given to 33 students as the samples or 14.6% out of the fifth
semester students of the English
Department of UNNES in the academic year of 2008/2009 numbering 226 students. A purposive random
sampling was used to get the samples.
The
errors were classified into two categories. They are English voiceless plosives
consonants [p], [t], and [k] in stressed syllable and English voiceless plosive
consonants [p], [t], and [k] in unstressed syllable. Based on the analysis, the
mean or proportion of the errors made by the 33
students in pronouncing English voiceless plosive consonants [p], [t],
and [k] was 35.61%. Meanwhile, they made 53.28% errors out of the English
voiceless plosive consonants in stressed syllables and 17.93% errors out of the
English voiceless plosive consonants in unstressed syllables.
From
the analysis of students’ wrong
pronunciation, the writer took some conclusions. The students are “excellent”
in pronouncing English voiceless plosive consonants [p], [t], and [k] in
unstressed syllables but the students
are “fair” in pronouncing English voiceless plosive consonants [p], [t], and
[k] in stressed syllables.
Based on the result of the research, it could
be suggested that for the teachers, they should be good model in pronouncing
English sounds, pay more attention to their student’s pronunciation and teach them more about English sounds. For
the students, they should learn and practice more in pronouncing English sounds
especially English voiceless plosive consonants [p], [t] and [k].
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