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“Indonesian Students’ Perception towards English Text Spoken by Japanese
and Korean Students”

Sherly Christiana Wahyono
Faculty of Language and Literature
Satya Wacana Christian University
Salatiga
sherlychristiana2004@gmail.com

Abstract
This study was conducted in order to collect information regarding to students’ perception towards
English text that already spoken by Japanese and Korean students as Non Native Speaker (NNS) of
English. Less than a week of gathering information through questionnaire that supposed to
represent their perception with 11 statements were asked to them in aiming at getting on the
students’ perception towards English text spoken by Japanese and Korean speakers. This study
simply aims to describe the phenomenon of intelligibility between NNS of English in this
globalization era. The results indicated that intelligibility become the main important factor in
speaking with a good pronunciation. However, teachers still have the orientation on the Asian
countries for their guidance in teaching pronunciation. Therefore, this study explores more on the
consciousness of the importance of students’ intelligibility as the aim of the pronunciation and
communication. These findings contribute to a better understanding of intelligibility in listening as

one skill of learning English.

Keywords: perception, spoken English, intelligibility