Ruhaniah, Ruhaniah (2015) Error Analysis of Pronunciation of English Pure Vowels Made by Students from Tabalong Regency at Tabalong Female Dormitory. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Ruhaniah. 2015. Error Analysis of Pronunciation of English Pure Vowels Made by Students from Tabalong Regency at Tabalong Female Dormitory. Thesis. English Education Department. The Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisor: Dr. Saifuddin Ahmad Husin, M.A Key Words : Error Analysis, English Pure Vowels This final project is based on a study which attempts to analyze and describe error of pronunciation of English pure vowels made by students from Tabalong Regency at Tabalong Female Dormitory. The statement of problem in this research are: 1) what are the students’ errors in pronouncing English pure vowels, 2) how is the students’ ability in pronouncing English pure vowels, 3) what are the students’ problem in pronouncing English pure vowels. Based on the statement of the problem above, then this research is conducted to know students’ errors in pronouncing English pure vowels, to know the students’ ability in pronouncing English pure vowels and to find out the students’ problem in pronouncing English pure vowels. The subject in this research are 25 students from Tabalong Regency. Meanwhile the object in this research is students’ errors in pronouncing English pure vowels made by students from Tabalong Regency at Female Tabalong Dormitory. In this research, the pure vowels examined were /iː/, /ɪ/, /ʊ/, /uː/, /e/, /ǝ/, /ɜ:/, /ɔː/, /æ/, /ʌ/, /ɑ:/, and /ɒ/. The data was collected using some techniques that consist of pronunciation test, documentary and interview. Data processing in this research is divided into five phases: Editing, scoring, tabulating, and interpreting. Afterwards, all the data analyzed with descriptive qualitative. The result of this research indicates, there were 6 vowels as the most problematic to pronounced, those were vowels /i:/, u:/, /ʊ/, /ɜ:/, /ʌ/, /æ/ and the students’ ability can be categorized into poor category with the mean score 51.04. There are some problems that writer found, the first is interference of first language to English. The second is the students’ lack of knowledge of correct pronunciation and the meaning of English words or lack of vocabulary. The third is the intonation problem, the students felt difficult to identify the different pattern of rising and falling tones.

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