AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION ENCOUNTERED BY THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM IN UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG

AHMAD, ZIKRULLAH (2022) AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION ENCOUNTERED BY THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM IN UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG. Undergraduate thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This research was conducted based on the phenomenon happened in the university. The students have low ability in pronunciation. They got difficulty in pronouncing English words in the segmental features of English phonemes containing consonants and vowels. In consonant, the researcher concern on [v], [f],[θ] and [ð]. In vowel, the researcher was concern on [ɪ] and [iː]. Therefore, this thesis discussed the error analysis in pronouncing English words in the segmental features. The purposes of this research was to classify the types of error made by the students which students made in pronouncing in the segmental features, to count the total of errors that students made and to know the source of errors. This research was conducted based on descriptive qualitative analysis. The subjects of the research were the students at the first semester of English Education Raden Intan State Islamic University of Lampung, while as the sample was c class which consisted of 15 students, it was considered by using purposive sampling technique. In collecting the data, this research asked the students to pronounce some words including silent letter while the researcher asked them to record their voice by voice note via Whatsapp message by online, because this research was done during the Covid-19 pandemic. Then, the researcher made transcription of their recording to be analyzed of their errors in pronouncing plosive voiceless consonants based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy according to Dulay’s theory.The result of the research showed that there were 4 types of errors those are omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The total of errors were 142 errors’ items which made by the students. The most common errors were addition which was 116 items or 81,69% made by the students, misformation was 0 items or 0%, omission was 26 items or 18,31% and misordering was 0 items or 0%, which meant it was the lowest while other error classification based on surface strategy taxonomy. Keyword: Analysis, Pronunciation, Segmental Feature, Surface Taxonomy

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