Eva Nurfitriani , 2201415019 (2019) THE DIFFICULTIES OF PRODUCING ENGLISH CONSONANT SOUND FOR EFL SUNDANESE STUDENTS ( A Case of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Ciamis in the Academic Year 2018/2019 ). Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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This study was about Sundanese students‘ pronunciation in producing English consonant sounds. This study aimed to investigate the problem faced by Sundanese students in producing English consonant sound and to find out what are the causes of the difficulties in producing English consonant sound for EFL Sundanese students. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. There were thirty five eleventh grade students as the sample of this study taken by purposive sampling technique. The data of this study were gained from three kinds of ways. Those were scanning in the form of a listening test, recording in the form of Pronunciation test and questionnaire. The results of the listening test, pronunciation test and questionnaire were the sources of data for this study. Therefore, it can be concluded that the most common problems faced by the Sundanese students were the Sundanese students' production was low, they were good in perception test rather than production test with the percentage of error in perception test was 35,18% and in production, the test was 73,06%. They also did mispronouncing sound [v], [ɵ], [ð], [ʃ], [ʒ], [ʧ] and [ʤ] because those sound does not exist in Sundanese, so they substituted the English sound to the Sundanese phonological system. Sundanese students are distracted by orthographic word. The mother tongue significantly influenced the way Sundanese students pronouncing English consonant sound because the differences of the way of producing the sound in each language and the problem of Pronunciation happened by many teaching difficulties and strategies of teaching pronunciation. Meanwhile, some causes make Sundanese students difficult to produce English consonant sound. Those were lack of exposure and practice, age, confidence and well-motivated of students, the lack of knowledge from their family, their English teacher is not well trainee and their society such as their friends and applications of social media influenced Sundanese students in learning English especially for pronunciation skill.

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