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[α ] vowel : 16. Month
17. Young 18. Sun
19. Brother 20. Colour
[ Ɛ ] vowel :
21. Men 22. Yellow
23. Said 24. Yesterday
25. Friend
mα nθ
jα ŋ
sα n brα ð
Ə r
cα l Ə r
mƐ n yƐ llo
Ʊ
sƐ it ‘jƐ stƏ dI
frƐ nd
3.4 Instrument.
In order to make this research run effectively the researcher used an instrument. The instrument is tape recorder. The researcher used a tape recorder to record the students’ voices.
The researcher gave some words on a piece of paper and then the researcher asked the students to read it. There were 25 words, i.e. 5 words testing [i:] sound, 5 words testing [i] sound, 5
words testing [æ] sound, 5 words testing [
ε ] sound and 5 words. When the students read, the researcher recorded their voices. After all of the students finished to read, the researcher
analyzed it.
3.5 Data Analysis.
In this study, the data were presented quantitatively in order to find out the frequency of occurrence of the mispronunciations. To analyze the data the researcher did some activities.
First, the researcher prepared some words for a test. Second, the researcher recorded the students’ voices and the last the researcher calculated their mispronouncing.
The frequency of occurrence of the mispronouncing previously identified were counted and tabulated. The number of mispronouncing were then presented in the form of percentage,
the quantitatively data are expected to show the students’ difficulties in pronouncing vowels [i:], [i], [æ], [
ε ] and [α ]. The higher percentage of mispronouncing, and the more difficult the pronunciation for the students, will be presented with the table.
Then, to know the proportion of the type of mispronouncing, it was calculated by using this formula :
Number of mispronouncing of vowel x 100
Total number of mispronouncing
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FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION Findings
Classifying Mispronunciation.
The classification of mispronunciation is classifying mispronunciation in pronouncing English vowels. The researcher identified the students’ mispronunciation in pronouncing
English vowel, as follow : Mispronouncing on Pronouncing.
a. Mispronunciation in pronouncing [I] vowel. Mispronunciation of this vowel was
because the students’ lips were too relaxed. And they didn’t make their tongue a little bit lower. The students were not habitual to
pronounce [I] sound because in Indonesian they didn’t find this vowel so they need a process.
e.g. a. Big – bi:g
b. Milk – mi:lk
c. Hit – hi:t
The right pronunciation is as follows : a.
Big – bIg
b. Milk – mIlk
