CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
In English teaching, there are four
language elements namely: Structure, Vocabulary, Pronunciation and Spelling.
Those elements are through in order to develop the student skill in the
language learning. One second of them should be noticed is pronunciation which
is considered difficult element method that can be applied in learning
pronunciation.
Nurhayati ( 2008 ) states that the
pronunciation means knowledge of knowing to produce word which is very
essential in oral communication when speakers mispronounce the word, people can
be misunderstand. To reduce it, the teacher must equip the learner with English
certain degree accuracy and fluency in understanding, responding and in
expressing him self in the language in speech in other the learners communicatively in using the language.
The specific characteristic of
English learners who categorized as good and successful oral skill developer is
those good pronunciation accent. A good pronunciation accent suggested is a
accent of pronunciation that sounds like native speakers. Therefore, it is
necessary for English learners to have a good pronunciation to support them to
be good speakers ( Nurhayati, 2008 ). Teachers of English as a foreign language
should be sensitive in viewing and overcoming such problems above.
Among those language skills, one
most focused until today is speaking. We know that
speaking plays an important role in human
communication. The importance of having ability to speak is becoming more
noticed moreover for the students of English department. They are asked to be
able to speak English. It will seem to be ridiculous when they still cannot use
English in communication.
Although speaking is the easiest way
of learning, it does not mean that speaking has no component. It is like other
language skills, each student must begin speaking by knowing its components
such as fluency, accuracy, spelling and pronunciation. Those components relate
to one another and need learning in order to have pleasant speaking. The
absence of one of those components will produce a poor result of speaking.
Realizing this problem, the students
need to focus in one speaking component. In this case, pronunciation is chosen
as one phenomenon in English. It refers to the way in which a language or a
particular word or sound is pronounced. (Hornby AS, et. Al, 1974. Oxford
Advenced Leorner,s Dictionary of current. English. USA N London. O. U ).
Pronunciation is definitely the biggest thing that people notice when we are
speaking. We use English for communication so automatically we need
pronunciation. Good pronunciation should be one of the first things that we
learn in English. We still can communicate without using advanced vocabulary we
can use simple words to say what we want to say. We do not have to use advanced
English grammar because we can use simple grammar structures instead but there
is no simple pronunciation.
Pronunciation has its own components
to learn and it is not simple as well as many people think. If we try to
contrast between English and Indonesian language we will find that there are
some sounds in English pronunciation that are absent in Indonesian language. We
call it as contrastive sounds. For instance the phonetic of /θ/ and /ð/ in
words such as “think” and “the.” Many Indonesian pronounce them as /sIη/ and
/de/. This is a common mistake that cannot be overlooked because can cause
misunderstand.
Therefore, the
students have to learn the English pronunciation as much as
possible in order to improve their pronunciation skill so that their pronunciation
is intelligible. In doing this, they will need one strategy that
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