Khotimah, Khusnul (2021) An Analysis of The Students’ Pronunciation Errors At The Seventh Grade of Roudlatul Qur’an Islamic Boarding School In Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purposes of this study were to identify the types of pronunciation errors of seventh grade students, to investigate the causes of seventh grade students' pronunciation errors, and to analyze the solution to salve the students’ pronunciation errors. The researcher analyzed this phenomenon based on the consideration of students' problems in pronouncing English which were investigated in the pre-survey process.

This research method was a qualitative research in the form of case study conducted at the seventh grade of Roudlatul Qur’an Islamic Boarding School in Metro. The main source of this research is the 10 students of class at the seventh grade of Roudlatul Qur’an Islamic Boarding School in Metro. The researcher used observation, documentation, interview in collecting data. This research was conducted to find out the causes and solutions of students' pronunciation errors.

The research results include of the types of students' errors in English pronunciation that consist of errors in pronunciation of vowels (32%), consonants (33%), first because of being influenced by the mother tongue (18%) and final consonants (18%). In addition, the second research result points out the causes of students’ pronunciation error that include of mother tongue interference, sound system differences between mother tongue and English, being hard to imitate the native speakers’ accent, being unable to comprehend and to practice the stress, intonation, and rhythm in their English pronunciation, having less motivation in practicing English Pronunciation, having limitation in exposure the pronunciation drill. Moreover, the third research result emphasizes the solution for students by providing the considerable driling and repetation in English pronunciation practice, guidance intensively in pronunciation practice, guiding the sudents to listen the native speakers’ sound, completing the curriculum design and material establish long range oral communication goals and objective.

Keyword: analysis, pronunciation errors, qualitative research

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