Said -- sƐ it Tabulating Mispronunciation.

Prosiding Seminar Nasional Hasil Penelitian Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran STKIP PGRI Jombang, Jawa Timur, Indonesia, 25 - 26 April 2015 393 Prosiding Seminar Nasional Hasil Penelitian Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Vol. 1 No. 1 Tahun 2015 b. Sun – sƏ n c. Colour – colƏ r The right pronunciation is as follows : a. Month – mα nθ b. Sun – sα n c. Colour – cα lƏ r e. Mispronunciation in pronouncing [Ɛ ] vowel Mispronunciation of this vowel was because the students were not habitual to pronounce [Ɛ ] sound because in Indonesian they didn’t find this vowel and they need a process. So, the sounds that produced were like [Ə ] or æ sound. e.g. a. Men – mƏ n b. Yellow – yælloƱ

c. Said -- sæit

The right pronunciation is as follows : a. Men – mƐ n b. Yellow – yƐ lloƱ

c. Said -- sƐ it Tabulating Mispronunciation.

The result from the students mispronunciation was showed that there were five kinds of vowels; [I] vowel, [i:] vowel, [æ] vowel, [ α ] vowel and [Ɛ ] vowel known as mispronunciation. The mispronouncing vowels include of mispronouncing on [I] vowel 68 times or 46 , [i:] vowel 9 times or 6 , [æ] vowel 24 times or 16 , [ α ] vowel 19 times or 13 and [Ɛ ] vowel 29 times or 19 . And the dominant mispronouncing on vowel is mispronouncing on [I] vowel 68 times or 46 . The data were taken from the students’ pronunciation given by the lecturer, so the researcher collected and calculated them. The result was showed that the mispronunciation on words ‘after’, ‘month’, and ‘men’ were 6 times or 0,04 ; ‘please’, ‘yellow’, ‘brother’, ‘see’ and ‘friend’ were 1 time or 0,006 ; ‘young’ was 9 times or 0,06 ; ‘hit’ was 17 times or 0,11 ; ‘milk’ and ‘swim’ were14 times or 0.09 ; ‘big’ was 21 times or 0,14 ; ‘leave’ and ‘that’ were 5 times or 0,03 ; ‘answer’ was 3 times or 0,02 ; ‘people’, ‘minute’ and ‘cat’ were 2 tim es or 0,01 ; ‘said’ was 20 times or 0,13 ; ‘thanks’ was 8 times or 0,05 and ‘color’ was 4 times or 0,03 . The dominant mispronouncing on the type of mispronunciation in words was ‘big’ 21 times or 0,14 . There were three words that the students well in their pronunciation; they were ‘sun’, ‘be’ and ‘yesterday’. The data were taken from the students’ pronunciation given by the researcher, so the researcher collected and calculated them. Discussion. This part of chapter IV discusses the finding that has been described in the previous part. The discussion attempts to the problem, and explain the findings. Mispronouncing on Pronunciation. a. Mispronunciation in pronouncing [I] vowel. These mispronunciations were happened because they couldn’t differentiate betweens [I] vowel and [i:] vowel. The right pronunciation [I] vowel could produce if the students’ lips were relax and lower their tongue a little. Prosiding Seminar Nasional Hasil Penelitian Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran STKIP PGRI Jombang, Jawa Timur, Indonesia, 25 - 26 April 2015 394 Prosiding Seminar Nasional Hasil Penelitian Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Vol. 1 No. 1 Tahun 2015 e.g. a. Big – bIg b. Swim – swIm c. Minute – mInIt b. Mispronunciation in pronouncing [i:] vowel. Mispronunciation on [i:] vowel were happened because when they pronounced [i:] vowel not too long, sometimes like [I] vowel or [Ɛ ]. If they wants to produce the right [i:] vowel they should spread their lips. e.g. a. Be – bi: b. See – si: c. Please – pli:z c. Mispronunciation in pronouncing [æ] vowel Mispronunciation in this vowel was happened because they’re pronouncing like [Ɛ ] vowel. The right pronouncing [æ] vowel can be produced if they open their mouth, spread their lips, push their tongue to the front. e.g. a. That – ðæt b. Thanks – θ æŋk

c. Cat -- kæt