Yanuarria Kukuh Perwira , 2201406531 (2011) Students’ Pronunciation Ability in Reading Report Text (A Case Study of the Fifth Semester Students of the English Department of Semarang State University in the Academic Year of 2009/2010). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study is about the analysis of pronunciation ability of the fifth semester students of the English Department of Semarang State University in the academic year of 2009/2010. The aim of this study is to find out the percentage of students who are able to pronounce English words correctly and to find out in what kind of words the students commonly fail to pronounce. The data of this research were the transcripts of the recordings of the students‟ pronunciation. There were thirty students of the fifth semester of the English Department which were taken randomly. The data were analyzed based on the standard British English taken from Oxford Advance Learner‟s Dictionary 5th edition (1995) and Cambridge Advance Learner‟s Dictionary 3rd Edition (2008). Then, the data were scored based on the Test of Spoken English scoring scale (Underhill, 1987). Then, in order to determine whether the percentage was high or low, the writer used criterion referenced grading (Gronlund; 1981: 527). The score showed that 51.56% of the students pronounce English words appropriately which mean that the pronunciation skill of fifth semester students of the English Department was very low although they had passed the Phonology I and Phonology II subjects. In addition, words they commonly mispronounce were words with correlation mark, words ended in “-ates”, prepositions and “there” as pronoun. Based on the result, it is suggested that teachers ought to find another media beside textbooks in order to create students‟ interest in learning pronunciation and make them easier to remember and to produce the correct pronunciation.

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