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4. Conducting the Survey
The researcher distributed the test to the participants of the research. After the test, the researcher conducted interviews with some of the participants who
had either good or bad pronunciation. As a result, the researcher chose 10 students to be interviewed. Five of those were good in pronouncing diphthong sounds and
the others were not.
5. Processing the Data
After conducting the research, the researcher should gather the data from the test and the interview. Then, the researcher analyzed the data to be processed.
This step was done to find out the results of the research.
6. Reporting the Data
The last step of the research was to report the data. The result of this research was used to explain the research result and also the discussion. In the end
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In this chapter, the researcher presents and discusses the data obtained from the test and the interview to answer the research question, which are to what
extent can the English students as teachers pre-service pronounce diphthongs? In addition, what difficulty do they face in pronouncing the English diphthongs?
The test, questionnaire, and interview are the instruments used by the researcher to obtain the data from the research participants.
A. Research Results
In this part, the researcher would present the data results that were already obtained from the research. Those were data from test, questionnaire, and data
from interview. The data from test, questionnaire, and interview were divided into one part only.
1. The extent to which pre-service English teachers of ELESP could
pronounce diphthongs from the Test.
This part presents the findings to answer the research questions formulated. The research question was about the extent to which pre-service English teachers
ELESP in pronouncing the English diphthongs. This section shows the percentage PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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The data is gathered using a test consisting 40 diphthong sounds for 40 students. The researcher found out the percentage between the students who can pronounce
diphthongs correctly and those who could not pronounce diphthongs correctly. Table 4.1 in the appendix presents the data of the test results.
Based on the table 4.1, the result for the first diphthong ɪə was most of the
students could pronounce all five words that contain diphthong ɪə correctly. However, there were 45 or 18 students out of 40 students who pronounce the
word “fear” incorrectly. It had bigger percentage than other four words that contain diphthong ɪə. It showed that there were still most of students who found
difficulties in pronouncing diphthong ɪə in several words.
The second diphthong was eə, there were three words, could be
pronounced correctly by all of the participants. Those words were “wear, bear, and
care.” There were 40 out of 40 students or 100 of participants could pronounce those words correctly. However, 23 students could not pronounce the
words “pear” correctly. Then, 13 students mentioned the word “rare” incorrectly and doubtfully.
The third diphthong sound was ʊə. There were two words that was
difficult to be pronounced by most of the participants. There were 34 students or 85 could not pronounce the word “cure.” Moreover, there were 31 students
could not pronounce the word “pure” correctly. However, most of students could pronounce the words “poor, tour, and sure” easily. They pronounced those words
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result was 100 students could pronounce the words “day, may, and weight” correctly. Those were easy examples because they used to hear those words in
their daily life. On the other hand, 10 stude nts or 25 pronounced the word “lay”
incorrectly. Then, 70 or 28 students could not pronounce the word “rate” correctly.
The diphthong number 5 was ai. The best result was 100 or 40 students out of 40 could pronounce all the five words provided correctly and clearly. The
words were “find, my, right, light, and fight.” No one of them made mistake in pronouncing those words word. It concluded that the students were familiar with
the words and were able to mention the words that contain the diphthong ai. The sixth diphthong was
ɔɪ. The result was 100 participants could pronounce the words “boy, joy, and boil” correctly and clearly. They were able to
pronounce those words easily because they often mentioned those words. However, there were 24 stude
nts could not pronounce the word “enjoy” correctly. They were doubtful and tried to repeat the word twice. Therefore, the researcher
put them in to incorrect one. The next diphthong sound was
əʊ. The big percentage was from the word “go.” It was a word, which students commonly used to mention in their daily
lives. They were very familiar with this word. However, only eight students who could pronounce this word correctly and clearly. The rest 34 students or 85,
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