Dulay and Burt share other opinion about the errors. They classify the errors into three categories as mentioned in Ellis 2008: 53. They are
developmental, interference, and unique. Developmental is for the errors that are similar to L
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acquisition. Interference is for the errors that reflect the structure of L
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. Last, unique is for the errors that are neither developmental nor interference.
d. Evaluating Errors
Error evaluation considers the effect that errors have on the addressee. It can be measured from the addressee’s affective response to the errors. The error
evaluation studies design involves decisions on “who the addressees will be, what erro
rs they will be asked to judge, and how they will be asked to judge them” Ellis, 2008: 56.
C. Theoretical Framework
This research investigates the mispronunciations made by Radio Masdha announcers in pronouncing English news from bbc.com. There are two main
discussions in the research. The first is what are the mispronounced sounds made by the announcers and the second is the causes of the mispronunciations.
To solve the first question, the researcher uses the theory of English Phonetics by Ladefoged and Johnson also Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams to
transcribe and analyze the mispronunciations. The researcher uses all of the three sound inventories in English. They are consonant, vowel, and diphthong.
In answering the second question, the researcher uses Phonology in English and Indonesian also the error analysis. The researcher focuses more in the
English and Indonesian orthography. English orthography is not really strong. It means that the grapheme and the phoneme can be different. There is no such a fix
rule in between the grapheme and the phoneme. It will not be a problem for native speakers. However, it can be a problem for those who use English as their second
or foreign language. In Indonesia, English is included into a foreign language. Indonesian has almost no differentiation between its grapheme and phoneme.
Having this issue makes Indonesian speakers face difficulties in pronouncing English words because of the different grapheme and phoneme.
After analyzing by comparing the differentiations, the researcher conducts several possible reasons that makes the announcers mispronounced the
English words in delivering the news. It is expected that all theories can be used to answer the research problems.
