Sari, 2016. An Analysis of IAIN Antasari English Department Students’ Errors in Pronouncing English Fricatives. Thesis, English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisor: (I) Dr. Saifuddin Ahmad Husin, MA, (II) Puji Sri Rahayu, MA.
Keywords: Error Analysis, Fricatives, Pronunciation
The problem formulation of this research is: what are the dominant errors in fricatives pronounced by the sixth semester students of English department at IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin in pronouncing English fricatives.
The subjects in this research are the students in English department at IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin. The objects of this research are students’ errors in pronouncing English fricatives in English department at IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin. There are 25 students of sitxh semester academic year 2015/2016.
To collect the data, the writer uses oral test and interview. Data processing in this research is divided into three stages; they are identifying errors, categorizing, and evaluating. Then, all data are analyzed by using descriptive quantitative method.
This research found that the most dominant error occurs at the pronunciation of /θ/ in final position showed that the students’ errors in pronouncing this sound were 76%. Most students could not produce this sounds correctly. The total of students’ errors in pronouncing sound /θ/ was 33 errors.