Teaching Pronunciation of Fricative and Affricate Sounds through English Songs at Grade 8 Students of SMPN 8 Bandar Lampung
Abstract
Keduanya bunyi frikatif dan afrikatif sering menjadi masalah bagi siswa Indonesia dalam melafalkannya. Hal ini disebabkan ketiadaan bunyi tersebut dalam bahasa Indonesia. Lagu bahasa Inggris dipercaya memungkinkan siswa meningkatkan kemapuan mereka dalam melafalkan bunyi-bunyi tersebut. Studi ini dimaksudkan untuk mengkaji apakah lagu bahasa Inggris dapat meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam melafalkan bunyi frikatif dan afrikatif. Desain one group pre-test and post-test digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Data-data diperoleh dengan menggunakan tes pelafalan dari 24 siswa kelas 8 SMPN 8 Bandar Lampung tahun ajaran 2016/2017. Data tersebut dianalisa menggunakan SPSS versi 16.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa lagu bahasa Inggris dapat meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam melafalkan bunyi frikatif dan afrikatif secara signifikan dengan level signifikan 0.05. Hasilnya menyatakan bahwa lagu bahasa Inggris memudahkan siswa untuk meningkatkan lafalan frikatif dan afrikatif mereka.
Both fricative and affricate sounds often result in problems for Indonesian students to pronounce. This is due to no such sounds in Indonesian. English songs are believed to enable students to improve their ability in pronouncing the sounds. This study was aimed to explore whether English song could significantly increase students’ capability in pronouncing fricative and affricate sounds. One group pre-test and post-test design was used in this research. The data were taken by using pronunciation test from 24 students of grade 8 of SMPN 8 Bandar Lampung in academic year 2016/2017. They were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. The result showed that English songs could significantly increase the students’ ability in pronouncing fricative and affricate sounds with the significant level 0.05. This suggests that English songs facilitates students to improve their pronunciation in terms of fricative and affricate.
Keywords: affricate, fricative, pronunciation, song
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