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c Interview

Arikunto 2006, p. 227 states that an interview is a dialogue done by interviewer, to gain information as many as possible from an interviewee. In this research, the interview consisted of direct questions and was answered directly by the research participants. The aim of the interview in this research was to get deeper data from the participants. The interview would allow the researcher to get more data about the pre- service English teachers’ difficulties in learning pronunciation. The semi-structure interview involved asking a series of structured- questions and the probing more deeply with opened-form questions to open additional information Wilson and McLean 1994, p. 228. Arikunto 2006, p. 229 states that there are some advantages using interview in gathering the data. The examples are the researcher is able to takes into account the attitude of participants when coming, the attitude when sitting, facial attitude, gesture attitude, and all the attitudes done by the participants during the interview.

E. Data Analysis Technique

According to Moelong 2006, p. 104 states that Data analysis is a process of categorizing, systematizing data into pattern, category, and basic easy unit to find out the theme and to formulate the hypothesis as suggested by data. In this research, the data was collected from three instruments namely, test, questionnaire, and interview. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 25

a. Test

In the test, the researcher prepared 40 diphthongs words. The participants should mention the words based on their understanding. The participants would record their pronunciation. The first step to get the data was listening the recorder from the participants. Then, the researcher would calculate the recorders based on their pronunciation. The researcher would make percentage from the data between students who could pronounce diphthongs correctly and for those who could not pronounce diphthongs correctly. In order to find out the result in number, the research was going to calculate the total respondents. Then, the researcher changed it into percentage and put it in a table. The formula was; Ʃ� Ʃ � = ���������� Notes: Ʃp was the number of participants based on pronounce diphthongs correctly or not Ʃx was the number of all participants in this research