Pronunciation Remedy of Scientific Plants Names with Pair Exercise Using Flash card Media at Students Plant Taxonomy Course

Abstract

The botanical nomenclature is a part of plant taxonomy.International communications of the name of plants in the oral and written forms are arranged in the botanical nomenclature system, using the scientific names of plants in Latin or Latinized language. From the point of view of Indonesian language the oral form or the pronunciation of the scientific names of plants are not always similar to Reviews their written form. The written form and the oral forms of scientific names of plants are arranged in the chapter of Pronunciation of the Scientific Names of Plants. In fact it was found that the pronunciations of the scientific names of plants are often pronounced wrongly by about 57.2% of the students. The improvement steps in terms of students' abilities in pronouncing the scientific names of plants are needed to be done using flash card media containing pictures and the scientific names of plants. The research result shows that after four training periods, the couple training using flash cards media can decrease the range of errors in pronouncing the scientific names of plants made by the students. The number of the students who Pronounce the scientific name of plants wrongly Decrease from the number of 57.2% into the number of 9.7%. As many as 17 scientific names of plants that are pronounced wrongly by the students now Decreased into 14 scientific names, from a total of 30 names.