Karina Purwandiah, 2201404500 (2009) The Use of Javanese Folktales to Teach Reading Narrative (An Experimental Study of the Eight Grade Students of SMP N 1 Semarang in the Academic Years 2009/2010). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to find out how well and how far the twelfth year students of language class of SMA Negeri 1 Sukorejo, Kendal in the academic year 2008/2009 pronounce and master the weak forms of English function words. The Population, which used in exploring the required data for this study is the twelfth year students Language Department of SMA N 1 Sukorejo, Kendal in the academic year 2008/2009. The total number of population is 34 students. 26 students are women and 8 students are men. The test instrument was arranged proportionally, covering some compound nouns and some function words that have both weak and strong forms, such as coordinate and subordinate conjunctions, auxiliaries, pronouns, prepositions and articles. In gathering the data for accomplishing this study, I use a tape recorder and ninety minutes blank cassette to record the respondents’ pronunciation. After that, I listened to the recording. The result of analyzing data students in weak form pronunciation is categorized poor. It caused by the average proportion is only 53.24%. The average proportion of the correct pronunciation can be obtained by dividing the total percentage of the correct pronunciation with the total number of students. The total percentage of the correct pronunciation is 1810 and the total number of students is 34. Based on the findings of the study, it is suggested that students should practice English and pronunciation more. Since pronunciation is very important in English.

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