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I. BACKGROUND OF RESEARCH.
generation. They have to be equipped with many kinds of skills and one of important
skills is mastering English. It is essential because in the coming year many foreigners
will come to our country. We can only communicate with them if we including our
teacher, there are many students who find difficulty in studying this language
although they have been studying it for several years. One of their difficulties is to
pronounce English words or sentences. They always make mistake if they want to
speak English, so it becomes a serious problem for them in learning this English.
To overcome this problem, the writer would like to do a research that is called
so that they can express their thoughts feelings, opinions, or ideas correctly by using
English.
In teaching English Pronunciation, it had been known that the students got
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Based on the problem above, it has been done a classroom action research to
research the researcher was helped by a team teaching that consist the principal of
SMP Negeri 2 Timpah Satu Atap and the other English teachers. So the research was
done collaboratively. The team teaching helped the researcher if there was luck in
words or sentences.
2. To find the suitable technique that can be used to improve the students’ ability in
1. The English teacher will use the technique found in this research when they face
2. By using the technique above the students can produce good English words or
sentences spontaneously.
Learning. Enguine, C Kim and Richard D.K. (1983) said, “Learning is the
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Teaching. Brown (19979) said, “Teaching is showing or helping someone to
understand. (p.7)
Technique. George D. Dien (1962) said, “Technique is the way we carry out
A. Drills.
Marry Finocehiaro and Michael Bonomo said, “Drills are central at all levels
of learning” (p.1030. Winarno Achmad (19780 also stated, “In order to obtain the
proficiency and skills, drills on the subject being learned is important” (p.10).
Drills belong to audio lingual method. These techniques are used to train the
From quotation above it is clearly seen that the mastery language can be
formed through habit formation. It means that the students can also be accustomed to
speaking English by train them to pronounce good words or sentences till become a
habit. In this case teacher has a very important role in training the students. He or she
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has to be skillful to apply the method or technique that will be used for teaching and
learning process.
There are some kinds of drills that can be applied for teaching English
repetition drill is suitable one to be used. In this case teacher becomes the model to
pronounce the word or sentences and the students will repeat them, or we can use
tape recorder, students will listen to it and repeat the words or sentences they heard.
So they listen to good pronunciation and they also will produce good pronunciation.
students to the terminal goal of the lesson. However it should be used during the
learning practice.
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VII. THE METHOD AND PROCEDURE OF RESEARCH
A. Method.
Robin Metaggarat stae that this method is chosen in accordance with the purpose and
the problem of research found daily teaching in the classroom. The data is obtained
research involves the principals and other English teachers as a research team.
The research was conducted in three treatments or actions. A test was given
after applying each treatment, so there are three time test during this research. Those
test were given in order to know the students achievement in each treatment, it would
be easier to determine which technique was suitable for solving the problem.
The research was conducted in SMP Negeri 2 Timpah Satu Atap, where the
researcher is teaching. The subject of the research was the first year students. There
were some parallel Classes but only one class was chosen to be the subject of the
research.
The class consists of twenty seven students. The class is possible to be the
subject of the research because the students of the class do not have the same
achievement. They are homogeneous in some characteristics beside they are also
C. Procedure.
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The procedure in doing the research will follow the system model which is
1. Planning.
3. Reflection.
To find a way out problem, the headmaster of the school and other English
teacher have been involved in this research. They worked together as a team to
observe, analyze and give reflection toward the action done in the classroom.
While the teaching and learning process were going on, the team was doing
Based on the observation, it was found that the students get problem in learning
English pronunciation.
The team suggested the teacher to making variation in presenting the material
drill first.
a) Plan.
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Hypothesis: By using repetition drill students’ achievement in learning English
Steps :
Preparing materials.
Application.
c) Reflection.
The team analyzed the result. It was not satisfy yet. The technique used did
that the hypothesis had not been accepted yet and the team suggested the
d) Revised plan.
Since the first act could not improve the hypothesis, the second act should
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Team teaching monitored the activities and takes some notes while
Application
c) Reflection.
After the team analyzed the result, it showed that the students’ achievement
had not improved yet by using this technique. They still made many
d) Revised plan.
The second act had not improved the student’s ability in learning English
a) Plan.
The team kept monitoring and collecting the data while the teaching
Application.
c) Reflection.
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Students could do the test well.
The team concluded that repetition drill can improve students’ achievement
D. Instrument.
The instruments of the research are tests. They are used to collect the data. The
test is given according to the treatment. There are three treatments applied in this
research. So there are three times tests. Those tests are given because the result can
be easily be quantified and they are analyzed by comparing t1, t2 and t3.
BLIBIOGRAPHY
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Bratt Paulston and Marry Newton Bruder (1976) , Teaching English as second
Language:
Lado Robert (1964), Language Teaching, Mc Grow Hill Book Company, Ltd. New
Delhi
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