the techniques in learning english pronunciation …

THE TECHNIQUES IN LEARNING ENGLISH

PRONUNCIATION USED BY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY MUHAMMADIYAH

MALANG

THESIS

By:

Barsah Dalasoo

201710100311236

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2021

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MALANG

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana

Degree in English Language Education

By:

Barsah Dalasoo

201710100311236

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2021

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This thesis was written by Barsah Dalasoo and was approved on 24th July 2021

By:

Advisor II Advisor I

Aninda Nidhommil Hima, M.Pd Nina Inayati, M.Ed

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SURAT KETERANGAN

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MOTTOS AND DEDICATIONS

MOTTO

“CANNOT RATHER THAN NEVER”

And

“THE EFFORT NEVER HURT ANYONE”

DEDICATIONS

I dedicate this thesis to:

My family.

All my teachers and lecturers.

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AUTHOR’S DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY

I hereby declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my

own work and has not been submitted to any other University or Institution.

I certify that, to the best of my knowledge, my thesis does not infringe upon

anyone’s copyright nor violate any proprietary rights and that any ideas, techniques,

quotations or any other material from work of other people included in my thesis,

published or otherwise, are fully acknowledged in accordance with the standard

referencing practices.

I also declare that this is a true copy of my thesis, as approved by my thesis

committee and the English Language Education Department office.

Thailand, 24 July, 2021

Barsah Dalasoo

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost, praises and thanks to God “Allah SWT” the Almighty,

for His showers of blessings throughout my research work and allow me to

complete the research successfully.

I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to my research

advisors, Nina Inayati, M. Ed, and Aninda Nidhommil Hima, M. Pd, professor of

English Language Department of University Muhammadiyah Malang, for the lesson,

suggestion, guidance, and for allowing me to do research and providing invaluable

guidance throughout this research. I also would like to express my deep thanks to

all ELED lecturers including Mr. Puji who has taught and giving me all knowledge

to carry out the research and to present the research works as clearly as possible.

I am extremely grateful to my beloved parents and my big family for their

love, prayers, support, and sacrifices for educating and preparing me for my future.

I am also thankful to my old sister who has supported me and thankful for my

lovely young sister who is the spirit to keep continue my research. Also, my lovely

friends give me sweet smiling, spirits, and motivation during my thesis.

Finally, my thanks go to all the people who have supported me to complete

the research work directly or indirectly.

The researcher

Barsah Dalasoo

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MALANG

ABSTRACT

Pronunciation is the act of producing sound to make a conversation with others

and it is an important feature of learning to increase communication skills. It is an

important feature of learning to increase communication skills because the success of

communication depends on the speakers' fluency in pronunciation. This study aims to

investigate the student’s techniques, the problems, and the solution in improving

pronunciation. The study used a mixed-method which collected the data from survey

questionnaires and interviews. The respondents were the English Department students

of University Muhammadiyah Malang, the academic year 2017. 63 students have

completed the questionnaire and 6 students were sampled randomly to participate in

interviews. Based on the findings, there are 3 results in this study. First, the students

mostly watch a pure English movie to improve pronunciation without subtitles to

improve pronunciation, the students got confused with some unfamiliar at the

beginning then get used to it while the words are repeating along in the movie. Second,

the student is still confused with some vocabularies that unfamiliar is the most

problems that occur while improving pronunciation, it was the factor in improving

pronunciation to be not running well. Third, finding a definition of the word that they

do not know is the most solution the solved, the student’s improving pronunciation

could be running well when they got familiar with the word later. This research was

different from other research by summarized the techniques and the problem solutions

based on the learner’s experience. Suggestion, the learners would be able to use this

research to be a reference in improving pronunciation skills.

Keywords: techniques, problems, improve, pronunciation

Advisor I, The researcher,

Nina Inayati, M.Ed. Barsah Dalasoo

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE ...............................................................................................................i

APPROVAL PAGE ....................................................................................................ii

SURAT KETERANGAN ......................................................................................... iii

MOTTOS AND DEDICATIONS .............................................................................iv

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY ..............................................v

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.........................................................................................vi

ABSTRACT...............................................................................................................vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS.........................................................................................viii

LIST OF CHARTS ...................................................................................................x

LIST OF APPENDICES ..........................................................................................xi

CHAPTER I.................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................1

1.1 RESEARCH BACKGROUND............................................................................1

1.2 RESEARCH PROBLEM......................................................................................4

1.3 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE ...................................................................................5

1.4 RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE .............................................................................5

1.5 SCOPE AND LIMITATION ...................................................................................5

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1.6 DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS............................................................................6

CHAPTER II...............................................................................................................7

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE.................................................................7

2.1 THE FACTORS OF PRONUNCIATION ...............................................................7

2.1.1 Teaching techniques..............................................................................................7

2.1.2 Motivation and attitude..........................................................................................8

2.1.3 Age........................................................................................................................8

2.1.4 Native language ....................................................................................................9

2.1.5 Natural ability .......................................................................................................9

2.1.6 Exposure.............................................................................................................10

2.2 THE IMPORTANCE OF PRONUNCIATION.....................................................10

2.3 TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION............................................12

2.3.1 Improving pronunciation through reading aloud ................................................14

2.3.2 Improving pronunciation through listening…………………………………….15

CHAPTER III ............................................................................................................17

RESEARCH METHOD ...........................................................................................17

3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN ...........................................................................................17

3.2 RESEARCH POPULATION AND SAMPLE …………………………………..18

3.3 TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTS OF DATA COLLECTION.....................19

3.4 STEP IN COLLECTING DATA ...........................................................................21

3.5 DATA ANALYSIS................................................................................................22

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CHAPTER IV.............................................................................................................24

RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION..........................................................24

4.1. RESEARCH FINDINGS ......................................................................................24

4.1.1 The techniques used to improve pronunciation...................................................25

4.1.2 The problems to improve pronunciation..............................................................27

4.1.3 The solutions to the problem in pronunciation ..................................................29

4.2. DISCUSSION ......................................................................................................32

CHAPTER V .............................................................................................................34

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION .....................................................................34

5.1 CONCLUSION......................................................................................................34

5.2 SUGGESTION......................................................................................................35

REFERENCES..........................................................................................................37

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LIST OF CHARTS

Chart 4.1. 1 The techniques students used to improve pronunciation………………...25

Chart 4.1. 2 The respondent’s problems to improve pronunciation…………………..28

Chart 4.1. 3 The respondent’s solutions to the problem in pronunciation.....................30

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LIST OF APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1 : SURVEY RESULT ........................................................................... 40

APPENDIX 2 : INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION .................................................... 43

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