33 result for this word was almost the same. There were 80 or 32 students could
not pronounce this word correctly and clearly. Some of the students pronounce this word unclearly. They repeated it two until three times.
The last diphthong sound was aʊ. There were five words if contained the
diphthong sound aʊ. There were “house, how, mouse, and doubt.” Almost all participants could pronounce those words correctly and clearly. The problem was
on the word “frown.” 70 or 28 students could not pronounce this word correctly. Only several of them could pronounce it clearly.
As the result above, the researcher concluded that some of the students found difficulties in pronouncing many words that contain diphthongs sounds. It
meant that they had to pay attention more on their pronunciation. They had to improve their pronunciation skill. However, some of them could not pronounce
those words easily. They could pronounce every word clearly.
2. The extent to which pre-service English teachers of ELESP could
pronounce diphthongs from questionnaire.
The researcher found the result of the first research problem from the questionnaire. The researcher provided six closed-ended questions. Table 4.2
shows the following data. As presented 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. It could be seen
34 that the highest percentage was calculated. Therefore, it concluded that most of
the students thought that learning English pronunciation is very important as English teacher candidates.
Table 4.2 The student s’ agreement about pronunciation
No Statements
Frequencies of Responses SA
A UD
D SD
N n
N N
N 1
Learning pronunciation is
important for English teacher
candidates 29
72. 5
11 27. 5
2 Learning
diphthongs is difficult
18 45
3 7.5 0
15 37.
5 4
10
3 I find difficulties
in learning diphthongs
24 60
4 10
5 12.5 7
17. 5
4 I increase my
ability by practicing often
15 37.
5 7
17. 5
1 25
8 20
5 I understand the
knowledge about phonetic
transcription 6
15 10 25
1 5
37.5 9 22.
5
The statement 2 had this following result. It was 45 students strongly agreed with the statement and 7.5 students agreed with the statements. On the
other hand, 37.5 students disagreed with the statement and the 10 strongly disagreed with the statement. No one chose undecided. The result showed that 21
students thought that learning diphthongs pronunciation was difficult. Next, statement number 3, the result was 17.5 or 7 students disagreed with
the statement, 60 or 24 students strongly agreed with the statements, and 10 or 4 students agreed with the statement. However, 12.5 or 5 students chose
