TEACHING STUDENTS"™ FRICATIVE PRONUNCIATION THROUGH TONGUE TWISTER TECHNIQU
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26418/jppk.v8i6.33414Abstract
Abstract
This research was aimed at finding out whether or not tongue twister technique has significant effects in teaching fricative pronunciation of year-8 students of SMP Kartika XVII-01 Sungai Raya. The population of this research is the Year-8 students of SMP Kartika XVII-01 Sungai Raya in academic year 2018/2019. The sample of this research consists of 20 students which are chosen by using cluster random sampling. This research is pre-experimental research with pretest, posttest and two times of treatments. The finding of this research showed that mean score of the students"™ pre-test is 50 while the post-test is 58. The tratio is higher than the tcritical (5.33 > 2.093). The result of the effect size (ES) is 1.17. It showed that null hypothesis "tongue twister technique does not affect students"™ fricative pronunciation" is rejected and the alternative hypothesis "tongue twister affects students"™ fricative pronunciation" is accepted. It proves that tongue twister technique has significant effect in teaching students"™ fricative pronunciation, especially sound [ʃ]. Therefore, based on the students"™ achievement, the writer recommends English teachers to apply tongue twister technique as a part of their pronunciation teaching.
Keywords: Pronunciation, Fricative, Tongue Twister Technique
