Students’ Ability And Problems In Pronouncing English Fricative At Stain Curup; A Descriptive Quantitative research at the seventh Semester Students of English Departmet Study of STAIN Curup Academic Year 2016/2017

Syahfandi, M. Haviz Tio and Anshori, Sakut and Utami, Henny septia (2018) Students’ Ability And Problems In Pronouncing English Fricative At Stain Curup; A Descriptive Quantitative research at the seventh Semester Students of English Departmet Study of STAIN Curup Academic Year 2016/2017. Diploma thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Curup.

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The objective of this research was to know and describe the students ability and problems in pronuncing english fricative. The population of this study encompassed all of seventh semester students’ of English tadris study program in STAIN Curup, the total of which was 40 students. From the population, all students of seventh semester were taken as the sample of this research by using a total sampling technique because the researcher want to know all the ability and problems students in pronuncing english fricative. Data were collected through test and questioner. The collected data were analyzed by using coding, data organizing, counting, and tabulation. The findings arrive at a conclusion that students ability was low in pronouncing Fricative and the student’s get lots of problems in learning it. The problems were the existence of a given sound in the target language which is not found in the native language, the same phonetic features in both languages but differ in their distributions, similar sounds in the two languages which have different variants or ‘allophones similar, sounds thats only differ slightly in their phonetic features, and the sounds that have the same qualities in both languages. The results indicate the students need lot of practice and learn how to pronounce English Fricative.

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