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CHAPTER IV FINDING AND DISCUSSION
The result of analysis and interpretation of the teaching English pronunciation at 6c grade students of SDN 06 Ciputat will be reported in this
chapter.
A. Data Description
The study conducted at SDN 06 Ciputat. This school have three excellences; fluent in Al-Quran, technology and English conversation. All of students learn
those subjects from the first level. Those subjects are good for writer to do
research, but the writer only focused in one subject, English conversation.
SDN 06 Ciputat has two English teachers, named Mrs Hati Carmawati and Mrs. Linda Eskawati. Mrs. Hati teaches three classes from first to third grade, and
then Mrs. Linda teaches from fourth to sixth. The writer chooses Mrs. Linda as a participant because she teaches sixth grade. Sixth grade is population that writer
chosen in this study.
Mrs. Linda was born in Surakarta, October 23
rd
1986. She finished her study and get academic title on July 2010. Almost six years she teaches in SDN 06
Ciputat as an English teacher. Her status of teacher in this school is honorary. From the interview with Mrs. Linda, the teacher usually uses 50 English
language and 50 Bahasa in teaching and learning process. It means students
understand the materials that teacher delivered and accustomed students to hear English sound. Besides that, the teacher is not always using book from the school,
but she was hunting for some new sources. So, she can explore about materials. Mrs. Linda focuses on vocabulary and pronunciation than five skills in English;
reading, writing, speaking, and listening, in every material. She thinks that in the first level students should know vocabulary of their daily activities, and also how
to pronounce it well. So, she always give new words and practice to pronunce new words.
Drilling and visual aids was used by Mrs. Linda in teaching pronunciation. According to Larsen Freeman, there are seven kinds of drill:
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backward build-up drill, repetition drill, chain drill, single slot substitution drill, multiple slot
substitution drill, transformation drill, and question and answer drill. Mrs. Linda use chain drill and repetition drill in the class. She uses chain drill in opening of
material to make sure whether the students ready to study or not. The example of using a chain drill in a classroom :
Teacher: Good morning students. Students: Good morning.
Teacher: How are you today? Students: I’m fine. Thank you. And you?
Teacher: I’m fine too.
In repetition drill, Mrs. Linda said the sentences of dialogue from English book then the students repeat it until they memorize the dialogue. After that, Mrs.Linda
asked the students to work in pairs in order to present dialogue in front of the class. By using the dialogue in the presentation, students felt enjoy and it could
increase their confident to pronounce the words. Besides, Mrs. Linda used visual aids such a realia to support teaching and
learning process. A realia can help students’ easily to understand new words. For
example teacher asked students to make a realia of clock. A clock is one of a media in learning. The students can learn how to read clock and they can have
conversation with their friends about asking and answer times. Example: what time is it now?, what time do you usually get up?, what time do you go to school?,
It was the one of trick that teacher used, so the learners have fun in the class and can improve their pronunciation.
The difficulty of students in learning pronunciation is guessing to pronounce words because of that teacher asked students to bring the dictionary and open it
when they find the difficulty. Depend on the teacher, phonetic symbol is not
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Dianne Larsen Freeman, Techniques and Principle in Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 48
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important to learn in elementary. Teacher only expects the students to speak well in English, unfortunately that were not supported by school to invite native
speaker. So, students just hear from teacher’s sounds and anative speaker’s sound
but from audiotapes.
Another interview comes from students. The names of participants are Indah and Abimanyu. They were chosen by high and low score. Indah, who has high
score, learn English language since she was in kindergarten whereas Abimanyu since he was in first level at elementary school. Both of them have different point
of view in learning English. Indah likes English language even it is hard to learn. She thinks that goal of learning English language is to communicate with native
speaker. That is her reasons to continue learn English until she fluent in that language. She is happy when learning English in the class with Mrs. Linda even
the source of learning is only from school’s book. The picture in the book can support her in learning though no colour in the book. She always bring dictionary
when the subject started in class. So, when she found new words and hard to
pronounce that words, she open dictionary.
Abimanyu, who has low score, does not like English language. He thinks that language is hard to learn. He also never wants to learn English more until him
fluent in that language. That’s why he never bring dictionary in class even his
teacher asked him to bring it and that was the reasons he gets low score in English language.
B. Data Presentation
The writer analyzed and relate between the finding and the research question based on the data collected. The result data from three techniques of data
collection will be describe of the techniques used in the teaching of English pronunciation.
First meeting
Daydate : Friday, March 18
th
2016.
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