Salah Abobaker Almabrok Shahat, 0203514084 (2016) THE STUDENTS`DIFFICULTIES IN USING VOCABULARY AND PRONUNCIATION FOR SPOKEN COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH The Case at the Eleventh Grade of Senior High School 2 Kesatrian, Semarang. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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The aims of this study are to describe the causes of eleventh gradestudents' vocabulary and pronunciation for oral communication and to describeeleventh grade students’oral communication difficulties related to pronunciation and to describe the system made by the teachers and for guiding the students to learn pronunciation and vocabulary in the classroom. Five students were selected randomly from all of the students from the same grade participated in the study. Two English teachers in Semarang city selected randomly to contribute to the study and two instruments used in this study, which are, interview and observation check list for the students and interview for the teachers. Four out of five students are largely failing in communicating in English spoken difficulties encontered by the students identified with pronunciation and vocabularies there are many explanations behind student’s weakness in spoken. The major problems they encountered with pronuncing the word as it is, the word meaning and its usage in certain situation. Although the students encountered problems during the interactions, they attempted to achieve their communications goals through practicing and hard working in the classroom. The researcher recommended media as films for improving pronunciation, gaining new words, and giving an extra time after the class over in teaching pronunciation and vocabulary.

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