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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION
This chapter explains the research finding. In this case, it discusses the way to improve students‟ pronunciation by using minimal pair drill at VII.3
SMPN 66 Jakarta. Related to the research finding, it is classified into three parts. Those are before implementing the action, the implementation of the action, and
discussion of the data after implementing the action.
A. Before Implementing the Action 1. The Finding of Pre Interview
Pre Interview conducted in this study was the unstructured interview. It was held on February 9
th
, 2010. Here, the writer asked the teacher some questions that were related to
the students‟ learning way in class especially for pronunciation, the students‟ difficulties in learning pronunciation, and the
teachers‟ regularly techniques in teaching pronunciation.
The first category that the writer observed was students‟ learning ways. The teacher explained that the students have differences in the
students‟ learning styles; therefore, the teacher should adjust her teaching‟s way with the students‟ learning style. This effort was to stimulate the
student‟s active in learning English. Unfortunately, they were still shy to
expose their English in the classroom because they worried to make the mistakes especially in pronunciation practice.
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The second category was the students‟ difficulties in learning pronunciation. The teacher mentioned that the common problem faced by
students in learning pronunciation was caused by the influence of students‟ mother tongue that made them difficult in imitating the pronunciation of
English properly. By this condition, the teacher has tried some techniques to improve the students‟ pronunciation in teaching learning activity. The usual
technique was by reading aloud. Teacher often asks some students to read aloud the text or reading passage. This activity aims to make the students‟
tongue being smoothly in pronounce the English word. But, some students still pronounce the word incorrectly. They still pronounce the English word in
their native language dialect. Based on this condition, the writer advised the teacher to use the minimal pair drill in
improving students‟ pronunciation. At began; the teacher asked the writer how to use this technique. Yet, at last, the
teacher agreed to use it in teaching learning activity after she had completely explanation from the writer.
2. The Finding of Pre Observation
Pre observation was conducted to observe the process of teaching learning in pronunciation activity before implementing the action. It was
held on at VII 3 of SMPN 66 Jakarta academic year 20092010. The observation was conducted on February the 8th and 24
th
2010. It was started at 07.10 A.M and finished at 08.40 A.M. In general, teacher‟s role was as a
guide. Here are some steps that the teacher did. First, she stimulated the
students‟ brainstorming by some related question with the topic that would be discussed contextually. Second, she read the passage loudly while the
students listened to her. This activity was for teaching the students how to read the words in the passage correctly. Next, she asked the students reading
aloud the passage together and then per line-seat, after that one by one max.3 students. Reading aloud drill was dominantly acted. After it was
done, she asked students about the meaning of the difficult words that the