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CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
This chapter discusses the data analysis of the study and its interpretation. This chapter shows the descriptions, explanations, comparisons, discussions and
analyses which are related to the topics. Basically, this chapter answers the questions on the statements of the problem. There are three main sub chapters
discussed here, those are general description, data analysis and result.
4.1 General Description
Drama Ramayana,
Upon the Corona was held on Saturday, July 18, 2009 in Gedung Ngesti Pandhawa, Taman Budaya Raden Saleh, Tegalwareng,
Semarang. Since performing drama is in line with the process of conveying message, native-like and comprehensible pronunciation is needed. Connected
speech is one of the key in gaining those factors. In fact, the major actors often make errors in pronouncing the drama script, in this case is connected speech.
That is the reason why the focus of the research is connected speech. The research was conducted from June until July, 2009 during the rehearsals and live
performance by analysing the connected speech errors of the major actors using video recording.
However, before analysing the video recording, the drama script was processed first. Initially, the drama script was blocked according to each actor
portion. After that, the drama script was transcribed into phonetic transcription
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based on Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary software - 3
rd
Edition 2008. It was followed by analyzing the connected speech on the drama script, in this
case are assimilation, elision, and r-sandhi. Done with the drama script, next was the turn of the video recordings to be
processed. The video recording was done four times; three times from the rehearsal and once from the live performance. Each actor did the video recording
three times using Cyberlink You Cam, since every actor has hisher own characteristic. The last video recording is the live performance where those actors
played together in one stage. Based on the video recordings, the connected speech errors made by the
actors were analyzed as could be seen in appendix 3. First, the connected speech errors of each actor was analyzed, in here are assimilation, elision, and r-sandhi.
The step continued with calculating the amount of each type of connected speech errors made by every actor as shown in appendix 4. The last step was employing
the percentage descriptive analysis to count all errors as seen in table 4.4, 4.7, 4.10, and 4.13. In carrying out the error analysis, Preselected Category Approach,
a statistical computation based on Gulo 1983, which is based on a set of preconceptions about each actor’s most common problem is used.
4.2 Data Analysis
