43 teaching the students. Teachers should prepared interesting and fun methods to
teach their students. It would make the students were eager to learn English. Otherwise, teachers should also think that the method would make the students
easy to understand the knowledge that was given by the teachers. Based on the interview above the researcher concluded that being an
English teacher was not easy. They had to try hard to be a good English teacher. They had to study hard in mastering every theory of English language. Moreover,
the answer showed that pronunciation was very important for English teacher candidates. It was the important requirement that they should prove to be a good
English teacher.
B. Discussion
This part presented the discussion of the data analysis in order to answer the research questions, which were related to the pronunciation of diphthongs sounds
by students of ELESP. The researcher would combine the data findings with the supported theories to draw conclusions.
Based on the first research problem, it was to the extent to which the students of ELESP could pronounce diphthongs. There were three important
points from the participants’ responses. First, some students were aware that learning pronunciation was important but it was difficult. Second, other students
were not aware of the importance of learning pronunciation. Last, some of students forgot the knowledge of pronunciation.
44 The first result was learning pronunciation for students of ELESP was
very important. The example was in table 4.2, the result of statement 1 was 29 out of 40 students or 72.5 students chose strongly agree, and the rest 11 students or
27.5 chose agree. No one chose disagree, undecided, or strongly disagree. The second example was that they had two pronunciation classes in University. It was
not only about learning but also they should master pronunciation well. The importance of pronunciation was shown by the two pronunciation classes they had
as students of ELESP. They had to pay attention more in learning pronunciation. Celce-Murcia, Brinton, and Goodwin 1996 state that pronunciation needed to be
taught and deserved more attention in language course. This statement showed that pronunciation was very important aspect to be learned, especially for students
of ELESP. Harmer 2000, p. 183 states that for all people, being made aware of pronunciation issues would be of immense benefit not only to their own
production, but also to their own understanding of spoken English. The second was the students of ELESP were not aware the importance of
learning pronunciation. Some of them said that learning pronunciation was just obligatory lesson that they should past as students of ELESP. Therefore, they just
followed the whole class without learnt it deeper. After this class done they will forget the lesson. Even if they only got C for this lesson. On the other hand, Yates
2009 states that pronunciation is best taught as an integrated part of language learning from the very beginning lesson. Therefore, students should focus on
those two pronunciation classes. They would learn pronunciation from the basic knowledge in those classes.
