What do you know about phonetic transcription? Do you understand it

45 It was supported by Dalton 1998, p. 6 by stating about the importance of the students to be aware the pronunciation elements. When it comes to a language teaching, it is important to note that there is a difference between what is effective as appoint of reference or set of bearings for learning let us call this a modal and what is presented as an attainable behavioral target let us call this a norm. The task of pronunciation learning, as in the teaching of any other aspect of language, is to establish models for guidance, not norms for imitation The last result was that students forgot the knowledge of pronunciation after finishing the pronunciation classes. Based on the interview result, some students shared that they forgot some theories in pronunciation class. It showed that students of ELESP were lazy to continue study pronunciation individual after those classes finished. Some students felt pessimistic with their pronunciation ability. They said that they did not have good pronunciation. Therefore, they did not want to learn it deeper. They were afraid of trying and making mistake in pronouncing diphthongs. Students should believe their own pronunciation ability. They had to keep learning pronunciation, not to forget it. They did not need have good pronunciation like native speaker, but they just have to keep practice. Abercrombie 1991, p. 93 states that the learner works at developing a pronunciation style, that is clear and understandable to both native and non-native speakers, but not necessarily native like. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 46

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

In this chapter, the researcher presents the conclusions from the discussion in chapter IV and the suggestions. The researcher divides this chapter into two parts. The first past is the conclusions, which is the summary of the research findings. Meanwhile the second part is the suggestions for the future researches.

A. Conclusions

There are two research problems in this research. Those are 1 to what extent can the pre-service English teachers pronounce diphthongs? 2 Moreover what difficulty do they face in pronouncing the English diphthongs? After conducting the research, the researcher found that as English teachers’ candidates, from 40 students most of ELESP students in Sanata Dharma University could not pronounce diphthongs correctly. They were not aware the importance of having good pronunciation as English teachers candidates. They also found difficulties in learning pronunciation. Therefore, this research provided suggestions for the pre-service English teachers. Through the test, questionnaire, and interview, the researcher obtained the data about the students’ ability in pronouncing English diphthongs as English teacher candidates. From the instruments above, the result showed that ELESP