AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION MADE BY STUDENTS WITH JAVANESE ACCENT IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH FRICATIVE CONSONANTS

Putria, Muslimah (2021) AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION MADE BY STUDENTS WITH JAVANESE ACCENT IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH FRICATIVE CONSONANTS. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In the process of learning English as foreign language, many learners make errors in pronouncing English. This research aimed to find out common pronunciation errors in pronouncing English fricative thus, to find percentages of global and local errors in pronouncing English fricative based on Communicative Effect Taxonomy, and to find the causes of error made in English pronunciation of students with Javanese accent at sixth semester of English Study Program UIN Raden Intan Lampung in 2020/2021 academic year. Moreover, the researcher conducted her research using qualitative methods. In collecting the data, firstly the researcher recorded the pronunciation of student with Javanese accent at sixth semester of English Study Program UIN Raden Intan Lampung when they read the list of words individually. Then, the researcher transcribed their pronunciation guided by online transcriber, Cambridge digital dictionary. The research‟s result shows that the common error made by Javanese students is fricative [Ʒ]. Local error dominated the subjects made errors because their errors in pronouncing English can be understood by other people as hearer. The researcher also found some causes of errors by the subjects according to interlingual and intralingual transfer, such as: first, fricative [θ], [ð], [Ʒ] are unshared sounds specific to English, [θ] and [ð] were realized as stop [t] and [d]. Therefore, this condition makes the subjects made errors in pronouncing these phonemes. Second, the subjects read the word by written form as their language that makes errors occurred. Keywords: Error Analysis, Students with Javanese Accent, Pronunciation, English Fricative Consonants

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