AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON TRIPHTHONG SOUNDS PRONOUNCED BY THE EIGHTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

ELIZA, EKA PRATIWI (2021) AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON TRIPHTHONG SOUNDS PRONOUNCED BY THE EIGHTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Pronunciation is crucial to communicate with other people. As though when someone pronounced a word incorrectly, it could be a misunderstanding. This research is intended to analyze the students‟ error in pronouncing triphthong sounds. The objectives of this research: 1) to find out the types of error that pronounced by the students on English triphthong sounds and 2) to find out the causes of errors did by the students at the eighth semester of English Education Study Program UIN Raden Intan Lampung. This research applied descriptive qualitative research. 17 students of F class at the eighth semester of English Education Study Program UIN Raden Intan Lampung were taken as the sample by using purposive sampling. The data were collected through documentation and questionnaire. To analyze it, this research used the theory of James about surface structure taxonomy to describe the students‟ error in pronouncing triphthong sounds and the theory of Brown about causes of error to know the causes of error did by the students. The result of data analysis revealed that the most common error in pronouncing triphthong sounds was misformation with the total items was 120 or 84.51%, then omission with the total items was 20 or 14.9%, and the last there were addition with the total item was 1 or 0.70%, and misordering with the total items was 1 or 0.70%. Thus, the total of all errors was 142 items. There were two causes of error that made the students triphthong sounds incorrectly. They were interlingual transfer or negative influence of students‟ mother tongue, and intralingual transfer or incomplete the target language rules. Keyword: Error Analysis, Pronunciation, Triphthong.

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