Author (Penulis)

SITI NUR KHAYATI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0190

Abstract

Abstract This research was conducted in order to improve students’ pronunciation at tenth grade students of Senior High School 4 Kediri. The problem in this research is the students could not distinguish between Indonesia and English pronunciation. The aim of using phonetic symbol here is that phonetic symbol as standard pronunciation of English can help the students learn pronunciation independently by checking them in dictionary. To find out the effectiveness of phonetic symbols, she used Classroom Action Research (CAR) as method of the research. This method consists of two cycles where each cycle has four steps, start from planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In collecting the data she used qualitative data from observation during teaching learning process, and quantitative data from the result of pre test and post test. From the observation during teaching learning process the collaborator concludes that students are active in the class, and they were more interactive with the teacher because they felt comfortable with the situation in the class. Besides that, the result of pre test, post test 1, and post test 2 showed a significant progress. In pre test, there are only three items which reach the target. In post test 1, there are seven items which reach the target. In post test 2, all items were reached the target 75% of correct pronunciation. Therefore, it can be concluded that phonetic symbols can improve students’ pronunciation at tenth grade students in senior high school 4 Kediri academic year 2014/2015. Key Word: pronunciation, phonetic symbols

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PUBLISHED

2015-11-20

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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