Abstract:
This research was a descriptive research. It was intended to describe the kinds
of pronunciation errors made by the Madurese tenth grade students in the dialogue
SMA Negeri 1 Bluto. The subjects were limited to the tenth grade at SMA Negeri 1
Bluto in the 2011-2012 academic year. The research subject chosen because
pronouncing English words through the dialogue or pronouncing individual words
were often practiced by the English teacher to the students, the students at the school
are Madurese and The pronunciation of English word of Madurese students were
mostly interfered by their mother tongue.
This research was conducted in some steps. They were as follows: Recording
the Students’ Pronunciations, Identifying the Students’ Pronunciation Errors,
Counting the Number of the Students’ pronunciation Errors, Classifying the Students’
pronunciation Test results, scoring the Students’ pronunciation Test Results
This research used test, documentation and interview as the data collection
method. Pronunciation test was used to collect the primary data about the Madurese
tenth year students’ ability in pronouncing English words. The interview in this
research was to get the supporting data, such as school curriculum, guided book used
by the teacher in teaching English, and the number of students, the level of classes
and the techniques used by the teacher in teaching English pronunciation.
Documentation was used to get the supporting data about the facilities in the school,
the list of the names of the subjects.
the students made errors in pronouncing English words were vowels was
53,2%, consonants was 17,7%, diphthongs was 16,5% and other categories was
11,5%. The most pronunciations errors vowel sounds was /i/. it is 17,4%, example:
‘exactly’, “example’. The students pronounced it with [εks˄kli], [ɛks˄mpәl]. The
most pronunciation errors consonants sounds were /θ/, it was 23.9%, examples:
“thank”, students’ pronunciation [tεŋ], The most pronouncing English diphthong
errors is /ai/ sounds. It was 27.8% from the total pronunciation errors, example: ‘lie’,
‘find’. The students pronounced it with [li], [fin].
In this research, the writer found some errors in pronouncing others English
words. The students gave ‘stress’ before the first letter. For examples: word [yeah],
the speaker pronounced it [‘iyah], [right] was pronounced [ǝrait]. This case is the
example that their mother tongue is very interference their foreign or second languge.
In conclusion, the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Bluto, Sumenep had
problems in pronouncing the English words. It could be seen from the results of
pronunciation test, the students made errors in producing vowels sounds, consonants
sounds, diphthongs sounds or other categories of errors. Therefore, the tenth grade
English teacher should give the students more practice to make them able to
pronounce the English words correctly and minimize their errors in producing the
vowels, consonants, diphthongs sounds, and other categories of errors.
