THE INFLUENCE OF USING TEXT TO SPEECH TOWARD STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AT THE TENTH GRADE OF MAN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2022/2023

FAUZAN, MURAPRADHANA (2023) THE INFLUENCE OF USING TEXT TO SPEECH TOWARD STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AT THE TENTH GRADE OF MAN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2022/2023. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In teaching and learning English process, pronunciation be a common concern. The students‟ problem does not have good ability in English, especially the pronunciation in speaking. Therefore, the students have some difficulties pronouncing specific sounds in English words, such as vowel, consonant, and diphthong sounds. Moreover, students are not brave enough to speak up and they feel less confident about their pronunciation because the phenomenon that happened is low level of teaching and learning motivation among students, so that it makes them felt bored and less interesting in classroom. Later on, the objective of the research is to find out whether there is a significant influence of Text to Speech towards students‟ pronunciation mastery at the tenth grade of MAN 2 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2022/2023 mainly in the segmental aspects concerning accurate sounds in producing some English words which the accuracy refers to the vowel, consonant, and diphthong sounds. The Text to Speech is good since it provides the sequence of the word which hard to say like the unfamiliar words, so it can help students to solve the problem and increase their pronunciation. The methodology used in this research was quasi-experimental design. The research population was the tenth grade students of MAN 2 Bandar Lampung and the samples taken were two classes, they are X MIPA 1 as experimental in total 30 students and X MIPA 2 as control class in total 30 students. The Text to Speech was applied in experimental class and English dictionary in the control class. In learning process, both classes used same teaching method, namely drill teaching. To collect the data, the pre-test and post-test had conducted. The test was an instruction of reading and pronouncing list of words which cover vowel, consonant, and diphthong sounds. In analyzing the data, this research employed independent sample t-test to test the hypothesis by using SPSS 26 version. Based on the post-test data given from both classes, The result of data analysis in this research showed that the sig. (2-tailed) of equal variance assumed in the independent sample t�test was 0.000 with the significance level is < 0.05. From the analysis, it means that in hypothetical test Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. Based on the computation, it could be concluded that there was a significant influence of using Text to Speech towards students‟ pronunciation mastery at the tenth grade of MAN 2 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2022/2023. Keywords: Experimental Design, Influence, Students’ Pronunciation Mastery, Text to Speech

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