THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SHADOWING TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ CONSONANT PRONUNCIATION MASTERY

Amila, Tazkiatun Nafs (2023) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SHADOWING TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ CONSONANT PRONUNCIATION MASTERY. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT 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 in 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 effect of shadowing technique towards students‘ consonant pronunciation mastery at the first semester of the eleventh grade of SMAN 1 Seputih Agung in the academic year of 2023/2024 especially in the aspects of segmental, specifically in English consonant. The Shadowing technique is good since it repeats the way native speaking say, so it can help students to train their ears and tongue. The methodology of the research was quasi-experimental design with five meetings actively of three treatments. The population of the research was the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Seputih Agung, and the samples taken were two classes they are X1-2 (experimental class) and X1-4 (control class) which is consisting of 69 students. Shadowing Technique was applied to the experimental class and Reading Aloud was used in the control class. To collect the data, the research managed to test as the instrument which was playing video. The test was conducted at two terms: pre-test and post-test. In analyzing the data, this research utilized SPSS 16 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 0.000 with level of significance is 0.05. From the analysis, the score of tobserved was higher than t-critical (0.05), so Ho was rejected. It means that there is significant effect of Shadowing technique towards students‘ consonant pronunciation mastery at the first semester of eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Seputih Agung in the academic year 2023/2024. Key words: Experimental Research, Pronunciation Mastery, Shadowing Technique

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