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1. The preparation step. Here, the researcher asked for permission to the

lecturer of speaking class to conduct the research. 2. Identification step. Here, the researcher identified the participant of the 4 st semester students of English Department whose first language was Papua- Malay Dialect. 3. Instrument preparation step. Here, the researcher provided the instrument such as the text that would be read by the students and an audio recording to record their pronunciation. 4. Data collection step. This was the time for the researcher to gather the data by recording the pronunciation of the students. 5. Data analysis step. The last step was analyzing the recorded data. The researcher transcribed the students’ pronunciation into phonetic transcription and analyzed it by comparing students’ pronuntiation with the standard from dictionary. Finally, the researcher summarized the data in to the frequency distribution to answer the second research problem. 38

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter will present the result of the documents analysis in respon to the two research problems of this study. In the process of answering the research problems, the researcher acquired the data and information by recording fifthteen pa rticipants’ pronunciation in reading one same passage. After recording, the researcher transcribed the result of their pronunciation into the phonetic transcription and compared the result with the correct phonetic transcription based on Longman Dictionary 2008 and Oxford A dvanced Learner’ Dictionary 2000. Thus, the researcher analyzed the English sound change phenomenon that occured in the participants’ pronunciation by using the theory of English sound change from Crowley 1992. The words analyzed in this research were those pronounced by seven or more participants in the same way. Answering the two research problems, the researcher divided this chapter into two sections. The first section discusses the types of sound change of the English Language Education Study Program Students of Victory University. The second section explains the distribution of the sound change among the participants.