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1.3 Research Question
The problems that are discussed in this study are as follows: 1
How well do the students pronounce English words presented in the textbook?
2 What are the difficulties faced by the students in pronouncing English
words presented in the textbook?
1.4 Objective of the Study
The objective of this study is to find out how well students pronounce English words presented in the textbook, along with what difficulties they face in
pronouncing those words.
1.5 Significance of the Study
By this research, the writer hopes that the result of the study will give useful contribution to English language teaching. In brief, she hopes that this study will
provide good input for English teachers in conducting language teaching as well as in being aware of the students’ mistakes especially in pronouncing English
words presented in the textbook. Besides that, it is also hoped that this study will help book writers to be as
creative as possible so that the students will find it easy to pronounce the words presented in the textbook.
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1.6 Limitation
In order not to make misunderstanding between the writer and the readers, the writer would like to limit the study as follows:
1 The subjects of the study are limited to the eighth year students of SMP N
1 Winong. 2
The study of this research is limited to English content words presented in the textbook used by the eighth year students of SMP N 1 Winong in the
academic year of 20082009.
1.7 Organization
of Study
This paper consists of five chapters that are: Chapter 1 is introduction which consists of background of the study,
reasons for choosing the topic, research questions, objectives, the significances, limitation, and organization of the study.
Chapter 2 is review of related literature. This chapter consists of researches on pronunciation, review of theoretical studies, and the theoretical
framework. The next chapter is chapter 3. The first thing that is presented in this
chapter is objects of the research. The second one is subject of the research which includes population, sample, and the sampling technique. This chapter also
contains the explanation of types of data, instrument and method of collecting data, and the method of analyzing data. In explaining about method of analyzing
data, the writer calculates the percentage and determines criteria of mastery level.
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Chapter 4 is about the explanation of the result of the study Chapter 5 is conclusion and suggestion
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
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