AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION SILENT LETTER AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATION RADEN INTAN STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF LAMPUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2019/2020

Dhea, Agisnandea (2021) AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION SILENT LETTER AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATION RADEN INTAN STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF LAMPUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2019/2020. Undergraduate thesis, UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NEGERI RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This research was conducted based on the phenomenon happened in the university. The students has low ability in pronunciation. They got difficulty in pronouncing English words including silent letter. Therefore, this thesis discussed the error analysis in pronouncing silent letter. The purposes of this research was to classify the types of error made by the students which students made in pronouncing silent letter, 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 second semester of English Education Raden Intan State Islamic University of Lampung, while as the sample was H class which consisted of 29 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 analyze 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 343 errors’ items which made by the students. The most common errors were addition which was 211 items or 61,51% made by the students, misformation was 84 items or 24,48%, omission was 46 items or 13,41% and misordering was 2 items or 0,58%, which meant it was the lowest while other errors’ classification based on surface strategy taxonomy. Keyword: Analysis, Pronunciation, Silent Letter, Surface Taxonomy.

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