CHAPTER I
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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