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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING AND INTERPRETATION
A. Research Finding
1. Description of the Data
As the writer mentioned before, this study discussed about the teaching pronunciation through minimal pairs which has been done at the seventh grade
students of SMP Muhammadiyah 17 Ciputat. She held the teaching and applied the minimal pairs Approach in teaching pronunciation. She also gave the pre-test
and post- test to the students. After conducting the research, the writer obtained two kinds of data, the
scores of pre-test and post-test, as shown in the table below:
Table 4.1 The student’s score of pre-test and post-test
STUDENTS’ NUMBER
PRE – TEST
POST – TEST
1 80
83 2
65 65
3 65
65 4
70 65
5 65
70 6
75 75
7 60
60 8
65 68
9 70
75 10
68 70
11 70
75 12
75 73
13 65
67
STUDENTS’ NUMBER
PRE-TEST POST-TEST
14 65
70 15
60 65
16 65
70 17
60 70
18 65
67 19
65 67
20 65
78
2. Analysis of Data
Data of students’ achievement in teaching pronunciation divided into two kinds, namely 1 the data before they learn pronunciation through minimal pairs
which is gained from pre-test, and 2 the data after they learn pronunciation through minimal pairs which is gained from post-test. Below the writer will
present the data about the students’ achievement in teaching pronunciation both
before using minimal pairs and after using minimal pairs. First, the writer presented the result of pre
–test, post-test, and its differences. Then the writer used the formula statistic calculation of t-test with significance 5 and 1 to decide
significance of different result in teaching ppronunciation before using minimal pairs and after using minimal pairs.
In the following table, the writer presented the result calculation of test and its differences to know the teaching of minimal pairs in teaching pronunciation.
Table 4.2 The Result
Calculation of Students’ Pre-test and Post-test
Students X
Pre-test y
Post- test Gained score
D x-y
D
2
1 80
83 -3
9 2
65 65
3 65
65 4
70 65
5 25
5 65
70 -5
25 6
75 75
7 60
60 8
65 68
-3 9
9 70
75 -5
25 10
68 70
-2 4
11 70
75 -5
25 12
75 73
2 4
13 65
67 -2
4 14
65 70
-5 25
15 60
65 -5
25 16
65 70
-5 25
17 60
70 -10
100 18
65 67
-2 4
19 65
67 -2
4 20
65 78
-3 9
N = 20 Ʃ X =1338
Ʃ Y =1398 Ʃ D =-50
Ʃ D
2
=322 The scores are processed from students’ answer sheet.
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