Implementation Of Contrastive Analysis To Overcome The Difficulties of Learning English Pronunciation Sub-Skill

Abstract

This research was conducted to investigate and understand
pronunciation problems, which is the sub-skill of speaking in the first semester students of the UPR FKIP English Education Study Program
through contrastive analysis. The purpose of this study was to analyze
pronunciation errors in English words and the causes of the errors made by
students who were the research subjects. The design used in this study to
present the data is descriptive qualitative. The results of data analysis were
classified into consonant errors (consonants), vowels (vowels), and vowels
(diphthongs) and the causes why these errors occured.
Based on the results of data analysis, the English segmental sounds
that were difficult to pronounce by students of the English Education Study
Program semester I in the academic year 2020/2021 were 1) long vowels or
tense vowels (i:, u:, ?:, ?:, ?:]; 2) short vowels soundor lax vowels low
vowel sound [æ], and neutral vowel (schwa) [?]; 3) the sound of diphthongs
(double vowels), namely rising diphthongs [??] and falling diphthongs [??],
[e?], and [??]; and 4) fricative consonant sounds [f, v, z, ?, ð, ?, ?].
The causes of difficulty in learning pronunciation of English
segmental sounds are 1) differences in Indonesian and English sound
systems and 2) lack of knowledge of the English sound system.