What do you think about learning pronunciation?
41 vocabularies they did not know how to pronounce correctly. Learning phonetics
transcription was very beneficial for those students. It was new knowledge for them. As English teachers’ candidates, they had to memorize as many as possible
new vocabularies. Therefore, they would not repeat the same words when they were teaching or doing public speaking.
Based on those answers, the researcher concluded that in fact students knew a lot about phonetics transcription. They also knew the benefits of learning
phonetics transcription. However, they had to study hard to understand the knowledge well. Therefore, they could master and memorize the phonetics easily.
As English teacher candidates, it was very important to mention every single word correctly. It was also very important for them to have many vocabularies.
Therefore, the students should have strategy to learn pronunciation effectively.
f. What important factors that needed to be an English teacher?
This part presents about the important factors that are needed to be an English teacher. Being an English teacher was not easy. Therefore, English
teachers candidates should know the important part to support their jobs as English teachers. The researcher concluded that there were four important factors.
The first factor was an English teacher should have good pronunciation and clear articulation. Students said that it was very important for good teacher to have
good pronunciation. When they became a teacher, speaking was the only one way to communicate with the students. If the teachers had good pronunciation and
clear articulation, it would make the communication easy to be understood. It PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
42 could avoid misunderstanding between teachers and students. Teaching English
language was difficult. Therefore, if the teachers did not have good pronunciation, it would make learning English language becomes more difficult.
The second factor was English teachers should have good grammar. English teachers should master grammar knowledge. Later, they would teach about
grammar too. Therefore, teachers should have good grammar first, so they would be a good model for the students. Grammar was the basic knowledge for the
teachers. Sometimes, some students found difficulties in learning grammar. Therefore, if the teachers had good pronunciation, students would understand the
materials and instructions well. The third factor was attitude to be professional teachers. An English teacher
should have good attitude. It was to show that they were a professional teacher. Good attitude meant that teacher should be patient, smart, and wise in facing the
students. Some of the participants shared that they often found a teacher who did not have good attitude as a teacher. It would make the students were not interested
to study with that teachers. They said that they wanted to be a nice teacher. They wanted to be teachers who could make the students comfortable and fun in
studying English with them. The participants also showed that they would be interested to the teacher who could dress appropriately. If the teachers had good
looking or appearance, it made students comfortable in the class. The last factor was creativity. In their opinion, to be an English teacher
should be more creative than other teachers should. As we know, that English language had so many theories. Therefore, teachers should be more creative in