English Education Department Students’ Mastery in Pronouncing Vowel in Minimal Pairs

Norol Fahriah. 2013. English Education Department Students’ Mastery in Pronouncing Vowel in Minimal Pairs. Thesis, English Education Department, the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisor: Puji Sri Rahayu M.A.\ud \ud Keywords: Mastery, Pronouncing, Vowel, Minimal Pairs\ud \ud The problem formulations of this research are: How is English Education Department students’ mastery in pronouncing vowel in minimal pairs, and what are English Education Department students’ problems in pronouncing vowel in minimal pairs. \ud \ud The population of this research is 104 students of the sixth semester students of English Education Department in Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies academic year 2012/2013. The sample of this research is 31 students or 30% of the sixth semester students of English Education Department in Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies academic year 2012/2013. \ud \ud To collect the data, the researcher uses some techniques such as test, questionnaire, and interview. Data Processing in this research is divided into \ud four phases: editing, scoring, tabulating and interpreting. Then, all the data are analyzed descriptively, qualitatively, quantitatively and concluded inductively.\ud \ud The result of this research states that the English Education Department students’ mastery in pronouncing vowel in minimal pairs is in Fair Category, because the mean of the test result is 63.35 35 and it is interpreted as fair category with the percentage 32.25%. The English Education Department students’ problems in pronouncing vowel in minimal pairs are the students are still confused how to pronounce vowel in minimal pairs correctly, because the sounds are very similar, sometimes they are forgot the transcript of sound and slip of the tongue. There are three types of minimal pairs that students mostly mispronounced, they are: type (/æ/,/e/) or 14.30%, type (/ɒ/,/aʊ/) or 57.1 %, and type (/æ/, /ʌ/) or 28.60%

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