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THE TECHNIQUES IN LEARNING ENGLISH
PRONUNCIATION USED BY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY MUHAMMADIYAH
MALANG
THESIS
By:
Barsah Dalasoo
201710100311236
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
2021
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THE TECHNIQUES IN LEARNING ENGLISH
PRONUNCIATION USED BY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY MUHAMMADIYAH
MALANG
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana
Degree in English Language Education
By:
Barsah Dalasoo
201710100311236
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
2021
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This thesis was written by Barsah Dalasoo and was approved on 24th July 2021
By:
Advisor II Advisor I
Aninda Nidhommil Hima, M.Pd Nina Inayati, M.Ed
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SURAT KETERANGAN
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MOTTOS AND DEDICATIONS
MOTTO
“CANNOT RATHER THAN NEVER”
And
“THE EFFORT NEVER HURT ANYONE”
DEDICATIONS
I dedicate this thesis to:
My family.
All my teachers and lecturers.
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AUTHOR’S DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY
I hereby declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my
own work and has not been submitted to any other University or Institution.
I certify that, to the best of my knowledge, my thesis does not infringe upon
anyone’s copyright nor violate any proprietary rights and that any ideas, techniques,
quotations or any other material from work of other people included in my thesis,
published or otherwise, are fully acknowledged in accordance with the standard
referencing practices.
I also declare that this is a true copy of my thesis, as approved by my thesis
committee and the English Language Education Department office.
Thailand, 24 July, 2021
Barsah Dalasoo
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost, praises and thanks to God “Allah SWT” the Almighty,
for His showers of blessings throughout my research work and allow me to
complete the research successfully.
I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to my research
advisors, Nina Inayati, M. Ed, and Aninda Nidhommil Hima, M. Pd, professor of
English Language Department of University Muhammadiyah Malang, for the lesson,
suggestion, guidance, and for allowing me to do research and providing invaluable
guidance throughout this research. I also would like to express my deep thanks to
all ELED lecturers including Mr. Puji who has taught and giving me all knowledge
to carry out the research and to present the research works as clearly as possible.
I am extremely grateful to my beloved parents and my big family for their
love, prayers, support, and sacrifices for educating and preparing me for my future.
I am also thankful to my old sister who has supported me and thankful for my
lovely young sister who is the spirit to keep continue my research. Also, my lovely
friends give me sweet smiling, spirits, and motivation during my thesis.
Finally, my thanks go to all the people who have supported me to complete
the research work directly or indirectly.
The researcher
Barsah Dalasoo
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THE TECHNIQUES IN LEARNING ENGLISH
PRONUNCIATION USED BY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY MUHAMMADIYAH
MALANG
ABSTRACT
Pronunciation is the act of producing sound to make a conversation with others
and it is an important feature of learning to increase communication skills. It is an
important feature of learning to increase communication skills because the success of
communication depends on the speakers' fluency in pronunciation. This study aims to
investigate the student’s techniques, the problems, and the solution in improving
pronunciation. The study used a mixed-method which collected the data from survey
questionnaires and interviews. The respondents were the English Department students
of University Muhammadiyah Malang, the academic year 2017. 63 students have
completed the questionnaire and 6 students were sampled randomly to participate in
interviews. Based on the findings, there are 3 results in this study. First, the students
mostly watch a pure English movie to improve pronunciation without subtitles to
improve pronunciation, the students got confused with some unfamiliar at the
beginning then get used to it while the words are repeating along in the movie. Second,
the student is still confused with some vocabularies that unfamiliar is the most
problems that occur while improving pronunciation, it was the factor in improving
pronunciation to be not running well. Third, finding a definition of the word that they
do not know is the most solution the solved, the student’s improving pronunciation
could be running well when they got familiar with the word later. This research was
different from other research by summarized the techniques and the problem solutions
based on the learner’s experience. Suggestion, the learners would be able to use this
research to be a reference in improving pronunciation skills.
Keywords: techniques, problems, improve, pronunciation
Advisor I, The researcher,
Nina Inayati, M.Ed. Barsah Dalasoo
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE ...............................................................................................................i
APPROVAL PAGE ....................................................................................................ii
SURAT KETERANGAN ......................................................................................... iii
MOTTOS AND DEDICATIONS .............................................................................iv
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY ..............................................v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.........................................................................................vi
ABSTRACT...............................................................................................................vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS.........................................................................................viii
LIST OF CHARTS ...................................................................................................x
LIST OF APPENDICES ..........................................................................................xi
CHAPTER I.................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................1
1.1 RESEARCH BACKGROUND............................................................................1
1.2 RESEARCH PROBLEM......................................................................................4
1.3 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE ...................................................................................5
1.4 RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE .............................................................................5
1.5 SCOPE AND LIMITATION ...................................................................................5
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1.6 DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS............................................................................6
CHAPTER II...............................................................................................................7
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE.................................................................7
2.1 THE FACTORS OF PRONUNCIATION ...............................................................7
2.1.1 Teaching techniques..............................................................................................7
2.1.2 Motivation and attitude..........................................................................................8
2.1.3 Age........................................................................................................................8
2.1.4 Native language ....................................................................................................9
2.1.5 Natural ability .......................................................................................................9
2.1.6 Exposure.............................................................................................................10
2.2 THE IMPORTANCE OF PRONUNCIATION.....................................................10
2.3 TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION............................................12
2.3.1 Improving pronunciation through reading aloud ................................................14
2.3.2 Improving pronunciation through listening…………………………………….15
CHAPTER III ............................................................................................................17
RESEARCH METHOD ...........................................................................................17
3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN ...........................................................................................17
3.2 RESEARCH POPULATION AND SAMPLE …………………………………..18
3.3 TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTS OF DATA COLLECTION.....................19
3.4 STEP IN COLLECTING DATA ...........................................................................21
3.5 DATA ANALYSIS................................................................................................22
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CHAPTER IV.............................................................................................................24
RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION..........................................................24
4.1. RESEARCH FINDINGS ......................................................................................24
4.1.1 The techniques used to improve pronunciation...................................................25
4.1.2 The problems to improve pronunciation..............................................................27
4.1.3 The solutions to the problem in pronunciation ..................................................29
4.2. DISCUSSION ......................................................................................................32
CHAPTER V .............................................................................................................34
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION .....................................................................34
5.1 CONCLUSION......................................................................................................34
5.2 SUGGESTION......................................................................................................35
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................37
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LIST OF CHARTS
Chart 4.1. 1 The techniques students used to improve pronunciation………………...25
Chart 4.1. 2 The respondent’s problems to improve pronunciation…………………..28
Chart 4.1. 3 The respondent’s solutions to the problem in pronunciation.....................30
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LIST OF APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1 : SURVEY RESULT ........................................................................... 40
APPENDIX 2 : INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION .................................................... 43
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