THE INFLUENCE OF TONGUE TWISTER TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMAN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

SERNI, OKTINA (2021) THE INFLUENCE OF TONGUE TWISTER TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMAN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF TONGUE TWISTER TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMAN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021 By: Serni Oktina In the process of teaching and learning English, pronunciation is enticed by little attention to be either learned or taught in the class. As the result, students have some difficulties pronouncing particular sounds, especially consonant sounds. Moreover, the problems have arisen from the absence of technique in the class. The role of technique cannot be pushed aside that it can help students understand the material easier. The phenomenon that happened is the technique used to teach is less interesting so that it makes students felt bored. Therefore, the objective of the research is to find out whether there is an influence of tongue twister technique towards students‘ pronunciation mastery at the first semester of the eleventh grade of SMA N 2 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2020/2021 especially in the aspects of segmental, especially in English consonant palato- alveolar fricative /sh/ and fricative-alveolar /s/. The Tongue Twister technique is good since it provides sequences of the word that is hard to say, so it can help students to train their tongue. The methodology of the research was quasi-experimental design with three meetings actively of three treatment. The population of the research was the eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Bandar Lampung, and the samples taken were two classes they are X1 MIPA 2 (experimental class) and X1 MIPA 3 (control class) which is consisting of 70 students. Tongue Twister Technique was applied to the experimental class and Chain Back Drill Technique was used in the control class. To collect the data, the research managed to test as the instrument which was reading two paragraphs of Analytical Exposition Text. The test was conducted at two terms: pre-test and post-test. In analyzing the data, this research managed two raters in judging the students‘ scores and utilized SPSS in the statistical computation. After doing the post-test, the researcher analyzed the data obtained from both pre-test and post-test. The result of the data analysis showed that independent t- test result was 0.003 with level of significance is 0.05. From the analysis, the score of tobserved was higher than tcritical (0.05), so Ho was rejected. It means that Tongue Twister Technique could influence students‘ pronunciation mastery at the first semester of eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2020/2021. Key words: Tongue Twister Technique, Experimental Research, Pronunciation Mastery

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