Zindi Nadya Wulandari , 2201415151 (2019) THE INFLUENCE OF TONGUE TWISTER IN INDONESIAN STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN PRONOUNCING /θ/ AND /ð/ (An Experimental Study at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Teuku Umar Semarang). Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research are to find out how well the students pronounce consonants which do not exist in Indonesian such /ð/ and /θ/ and to find out the influences of a tongue twister to teach pronunciation of /ð/ and /θ/ for Indonesian students especially the tenth graders of SMA Teuku Umar Semarang. This research employed quantitative research design. Through purposive sampling technique, 32 students of X IPS 1 were chosen as the control group and 31 students of X IPS 2 were chosen as the experimental group. The students’initial ability in pronouncing consonants /θ/ and /ð/ was poor. Their pronunciation was still influenced by their mother language. Based on the result of post-test, the significance value of consonant /ð/ (0.006) was higher than 0.005 which means that Ha was refused and H0 was accepted. The significance value of consonant /θ/ was less than the significance level (0.000 < 0.005), it can be said that H0 is refused and Ha is accepted. In short, it was accepted that tongue twisters have a big role in the students’ ability in pronouncing /θ/ than their ability in pronouncing /ð/. The way they pronounce /ð/ better than they pronounce /θ/ was proved by the mean scores of the students’ in pronouncing /ð/ was higher than their mean scores in pronouncing /θ/. In conclusion, the use of tongue twister is effective to teach pronunciation and it helps students in improving their pronunciation ability. Tongue twisters also can be used as a warming up in teaching learning activity.

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