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39 The second category was the students‟ difficulties in learning pronunciation. The teacher mentioned that the common problem faced by students in learning pronunciation was caused by the influence of students‟ mother tongue that made them difficult in imitating the pronunciation of English properly. By this condition, the teacher has tried some techniques to improve the students‟ pronunciation in teaching learning activity. The usual technique was by reading aloud. Teacher often asks some students to read aloud the text or reading passage. This activity aims to make the students‟ tongue being smoothly in pronounce the English word. But, some students still pronounce the word incorrectly. They still pronounce the English word in their native language dialect. Based on this condition, the writer advised the teacher to use the minimal pair drill in improving students‟ pronunciation. At began; the teacher asked the writer how to use this technique. Yet, at last, the teacher agreed to use it in teaching learning activity after she had completely explanation from the writer.

2. The Finding of Pre Observation

Pre observation was conducted to observe the process of teaching learning in pronunciation activity before implementing the action. It was held on at VII 3 of SMPN 66 Jakarta academic year 20092010. The observation was conducted on February the 8th and 24 th 2010. It was started at 07.10 A.M and finished at 08.40 A.M. In general, teacher‟s role was as a guide. Here are some steps that the teacher did. First, she stimulated the students‟ brainstorming by some related question with the topic that would be discussed contextually. Second, she read the passage loudly while the students listened to her. This activity was for teaching the students how to read the words in the passage correctly. Next, she asked the students reading aloud the passage together and then per line-seat, after that one by one max.3 students. Reading aloud drill was dominantly acted. After it was done, she asked students about the meaning of the difficult words that the

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