Rizal Ainur Rahman, 2201416095 (2020) Students’ Mastery Level in Identifying and Pronouncing English Sounds [θ], [ð], and [t] (A Case of Seventh Grade Students of SMP SEMESTA Semarang). Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

Some English sounds do not exist in Bahasa Indonesia. Those absences of some certain sounds may cause difficulties for students to produce those sounds. This study aimed to find out how well the students identify and pronounce English sounds [θ], [ð], and [t]. The participants of the study were 40 students of the seventh-grades of SMP SEMESTA Semarang. This research applied a descriptive qualitative method using the mastery level criterion suggested by Gronlund (1981) to determine the students’ mastery. The data collection applied were the listening and pronunciation tests. The findings of this study indicated that the students’ mastery level identifying sound [θ] was categorized as very good, sound [ð] was categorized as very weak, and sound [t] was categorized as satisfactory. While the students’ mastery in pronouncing sound [θ] was categorized as unsatisfactory, sound [ð] was categorized as very weak, and sound [t] was categorized as outstanding. In addition, it can be concluded that the most problematic sound to be identified was the sound [ð] while the most problematic sound to be pronounced was the sound [θ]. It happened because those sounds do not occur in their mother tongue, so they tended to replace those sounds with the closest sounds that exist in Bahasa Indonesia.

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