listen others’ ideas. In discussions and conversations, the students are able to recognize their mistakes and correcting the mistakes.
4 Games
Games are similar to role play. Games also require active communication. In this assessment, students follow the rule of the game while they learn English,
especially in speaking Brown, 2004: 175. In games, the teachers score based on the students’ activities.
B. The Teaching of Pronunciation
To be able to have a successful communication, the speaker of a language needs to be able to understand each other with relative ease Nunan, 2003: 112. It
means that the students have to be able to deliver clear messages to the listeners. Here, pronunciation plays an important role for a speaker in delivering a clear
message to the listener.
a. Pronunciation
Nunan stated pronunciation as the sounds we make while speaking 2003: 112. In brief, pronunciation is a part of speaking skills. The speaker of a language
cannot separate pronunciation from speaking. Good speaking requires good pronunciation. There will be success speaking when the speakers have good
pronunciation. Pronunciation is taught in school, but it does not take important role in
English subject. Pronunciation is only a part of the supporting elements or supporting competences of English besides vocabulary, grammar and discourse in
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the classroom Nunan, 2003: 109. There are two fundamental principles in the general strategy of pronunciation teaching: 1 pronunciation has to be integrated
with other skills and with other supporting competences and 2 pronunciation has to be isolated for practice of specific items Syafei, 1988: 1. Pronunciation cannot
be separated with the other skills and competences. Pronunciation should be taught integrated with the other skills and competences in the class.
In the class, pronunciation does not teach separately with the other skills. Pronunciation is taught integrated with speaking lesson. Pronunciation is usually
taught in repetition in speaking lesson. Most of the teachers in Indonesia still allow their students in making incorrect pronunciation, because they consider on
the students’ first mother tongue. Pronunciation becomes an important part in making the dialogue or speech
successful. Therefore, students need to have a good pronunciation in English. The importance is on the listener, because the listener has to interpret or perceive the
speaker’s sentences. Good pronunciation helps students to communicate clearly in class.
Every language in this world has its own features of language including pronunciation or speech sounds. There are no two persons of the same nationality
pronounces their own language exactly Jones, 1987: 11. Every person has different pronunciation although his or her mother tongue is in the same language
with the person from the same mother tongue. English has different accents of pronunciation. In general, there are British
English or known as SSB Standard Southern British and American English or
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known as GA General American Poedjosoedarmo, 2003: 12. There are no clear standard to judge that the pronunciation of each language is good or bad.
The standard of English pronunciation is ‘Received Pronunciation’ RP Jones, 1972: 12. This kind of pronunciation is considered equally “good” pronunciation.
English is one of the languages in this world which has its own characteristic features of language. The characteristics of the features make us
easier to recognize the sounds of the language. For example: the word “class”, British English pronounces with the vowel : like kl :s and American English
pronounces with the vowel æ like klæs. Although American English has the similar pronunciation to the British English, listeners could directly recognize the
sounds from British English.
b. Pronunciation Intelligibility
