In order to increase students’ pronunciation inteligibility, sufficient attention to pronunciation mastery needs to be given. Communicative drill is
conducted in class during the English lesson. Communicative drill method will give sufficient attention to pronunciation mastery of the students.
It will be hard for the students to communicate if they do not have intelligible pronunciation in their speaking. This is because if students do not state
clearly the English words, it will be difficult for the listeners to know their message. This should make the teacher aware in teaching English, especially in
speaking. Based on this assumption, the researcher attempts to improve students’ pronunciation intelligibility. The improvement will make the students able to
speak English intelligibly and communicativelly.
B. Problem Formulation
This is a problem to be solved in this research: 1.
How communicative drill improves pronunciation intelligibility of XIIPA 3 students?
C. Problem Limitation
This research is limited on its subject and its purpose. Those who were involved in this research were only the students of XIIPA 3 of SMA 2 Ngaglik.
The students of XIIPA 3 were chosen because they have to attend English class, which involves speaking in the teaching-learning activities. The main purpose of
this research is to improve students’ pronunciation intelligibility of XIIPA 3 SMA
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2 Ngaglik. Intelligible pronunciation helps the students of XIIPA 3 to communicate clearly and communicatively.
D. Research Objectives
This research has an objective. 1.
To find out the technique to improve the XIIPA 3 students’ pronunciation intelligibility of SMA 2 Ngaglik.
E. Research Benefits
There are several benefits that can be obtained from this research. As stated in the Problem Formulation, this research is intended to find students’
problems in pronunciation intelligibility in English class and solve the problems by giving a method that can improve students’ pronunciation intelligibility. It is
expected that there will be valuable contribution for the people as follows: 1.
The Researcher From this research, it is expected the researcher will acquire a new teaching
strategy to teach pronunciation in speaking in the class. 2.
The Students For the students of XIIPA 3, understanding their pronunciation intelligibility
problems will encourage them to speak actively since they understand the problems and already know how to answer the problems by applying the given
method. This will make the students have better pronunciation and make them able to speak English communicatively.
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3. The Teacher
By understanding the problems faced by the students of XIIPA 3, it is hoped that the teacher will be able to create a better teaching strategy and to use the
method to improve students’ pronunciation intelligibility. The teaching strategy and method which are conducted in this research will be an
alternative in solving the problems faced by the students of XIIPA 3 in the pronunciation intelligibility.
F. Definition of Terms
