35 undecided with the statement. It meant that 28 students found difficulties in
learning diphthongs pronunciation. Seven students could learn diphthongs easily. Then, five students were doubtful with their answers.
As for statement number 4, the result was the majority of the students strongly agreed with 37.5. Meanwhile 20 students chose disagree, 25
students chose undecided, 17.5 students chose agree, and 0 students chose strongly disagree. It showed that most of the students increase their pronunciation
ability by practicing often. However, there were also students who did not know what they should do to increase their pronunciation skills.
The last, the result of the statement number 5 was 37.5 students chose undecided, 22.5 students chose disagree, 15 students chose strongly agree,
and 25 students chose agree. It could be concluded that most of the students were doubtful with the statements. Most of them were not sure whether they
understood the knowledge well or not. However, 22.5 students who were sure that they did not understand the knowledge of phonetic transcription. While there
was 15 plus 25 students were sure that they mastered the phonetics transcription.
3. The difficulty they found in learning pronunciation from the interview.
In this part, the researcher presents the data gathered from open-ended question part in questionnaire. There are six questions, which the students need to
answer in order to gather data. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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a. What do you think about learning pronunciation?
The researcher chose ten students to be interviewed in order to answer the question. This first question, the researcher already chose three best answered
from the participants. The first best answer was students thought that learning pronunciation was
very important. It was one of their responsibilities to learn pronunciation as English language students. They considered that English students should learn
pronunciation. Some of them said that they chose to study in English language; it meant they had to learn everything related to English language. They also said
that there were so many things should be learnt to be an English teacher. Pronunciation was one of the most important aspects that they should master as
the English teachers candidates. The second point was pronunciation was a difficult lesson to be learnt.
Some of the students said that pronunciation was one of difficult lessons in learning English language. They got pronunciation lesson twice. It was
Pronunciation 1 and Pronunciation 2. Some of the students shared that they got C in both lessons. There were so many aspects that they should learn in
pronunciation. Sometimes, they could not follow the English accent. They were still influenced by their own mother tongue. They had to memorize every word
and the way to mention the word correctly. The last point was pronunciation was easy and fun to be learnt. There were
some students enjoyed in learning pronunciation. This was new thing for some students. Several students were fun to learn new knowledge. They could follow
37 the lesson well. The researcher found some students had very good pronunciation.
They could mention every single word correctly.
b. What are you doing when you find difficulties in learning
pronunciation?
The researcher concluded the answer for this question into three interesting points. The researcher would describe the answers one by one.
The first interesting point was by opening English dictionary. It was a usual answer, but some students answered that. They said that although opening the
dictionary was a usual thing, but it was a simple thing they could do to find the word. On the other hand, some students did not understand we how they would
read the phonetics transcription. Therefore, they opened online dictionary to listen the sound of the word. Nowadays, there were some types of dictionary. It was not
only a book but also electronic or online ones. They could download it from their mobile phones and brought it everywhere. They could learn everywhere and
whenever it was. The second was just waiting until the next class of pronunciation came.
They said that they were aware that so many things should be learnt in pronunciation. It was not only about mentioning the words, but also understanding
the concept too. Sometimes, they thought that they did not understand when they only listened to the lecturers’ explanation. Therefore, they tried to practice
speaking more. They tried to speak often in class. They also added their vocabularies list.
38 The third point was reading a lot. There were only three out of ten students
answered that. They said that they loved reading a lot. No matter it were magazines, newspapers, novels, or comics. Everything was in English. They told
that it helped them to improve their vocabularies. When they read that and found new words, they tried to find it in dictionary. After that, they would know the
meaning and the way to read the words correctly. In addition, the researcher concluded that actually there were so many
things that they could do in solving their difficulties. Those three answers were only the most examples that most participants could do when they found
difficulties in learning pronunciation. It was simple thing, but it had big meaning for English teacher candidates.
c. How important pronunciation for pre-service English teachers is?
In this question, the students answered with almost the same points. They said that pronunciation was very important for students. It was a soul for English
teachers’ candidates. Pronunciation was the important thing in teaching. It was one of tools to communicate to the students. Every single word that the teacher
said would be an example for the students. No matter whether the teacher said was correct; students would believe in what the teacher said. Therefore, teacher
should have good pronunciation as a good model for the students. Having good pronunciation could avoid misunderstanding between the
teachers and the students. Sometimes, when the teachers pronounced the wrong words, the students would misunderstand what teachers meant. They said that
