AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION OF PATTANI’S STUDENTS IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH FRICATIVE CONSONANTS AT THE EIGHTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM RADEN INTAN STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/2017

Mulyadi, Wahyuni Wulandary (2017) AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION OF PATTANI’S STUDENTS IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH FRICATIVE CONSONANTS AT THE EIGHTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM RADEN INTAN STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/2017. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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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 Pattani’s students at eighth semester of English Study Program UIN Raden Intan Lampung in 2016/2017 academic year. Moreover, the researcher conducted her research using qualitative methods. In collecting the data, firstly the researcher recorded the pronunciation of Pattani’s students at eighth 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, Oxford dictionary, and Cambridge digital dictionary. The research’s result shows that the common error made by Pattani’s 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.

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