Faza Lutfiyana, 2201416068 (2020) STUDENTS’ ACCURACY IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH PALATE ALVEOLAR SOUNDS (A Case Study of Students of English Department , Universitas Negeri Semarangin the Academic Year of 2019/2020). Under Graduates thesis, Unnes.

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Abstract

This study was aimed at (1) investigating the students’ accuracy in pronouncing English Palate alveolar sounds, and (2) finding outthe factors encountered in the students’ accuracy in pronouncing English Palate Alveolar Sounds. This study used a qualitative method. The participants of this study were 30 students of fourth terms in the academic year 2019/2020 of English department, Universitas Negeri Semarang. The Instruments of collecting data were speaking test and interview. The data were obtained by recording the students’ pronunciation and the interview. The pronunciation test was used to investigate the students’ accuracy in pronouncing English palate alveolar sounds, while to find out the factors encountered in students’ accuracy, the researcher did an interview. Based on the findings, dealing with the pronunciation of English palate alveolar fricative [∫], [ʒ], the result representing61% and 58%. Meanwhile, regarding to the palate alveolar affricate [ʧ],[ʤ] the score was higher. From all the students’ accuracy, the highest percentage was palate alveolar affricate [ʧ] with 67% and [ʤ] was 64%. The result showed that in pronunciation test, the students’ categorized was good. Mostly the students did well in pronuncing the sounds although there were some students tried to substitute [∫], [ʒ],[ʧ],[ʤ] with the existing sounds in their native language. Yet, the lowest accuracy of the students was when they pronounced [ʒ] and tended to replace with [z] because they was not familiar with the sounds. In addition, from the interview, it can be concluded that students’ accuracy were mostly caused by native language. Other factors were the students’ aptitude in learning English proved by students’ recognition in English palate alveolar sounds. The last factors were the students motivation in learning pronunciation.

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