THESIS

An Error Analysis of Students

Pronounciation in Pronouncing
English Fricative Sounds at UIN
Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah
Tulungagung

BY: MELLA FATIMATUZ ZAHROH

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CHAPTER
01. A. Background of the Study

B. Research Problem
Introduction
C. Significance of the Study
D. Scope and Limitation of the Study

E. The Definition of Key Terms

Background of the Study
Pronounciation is one the most difficult aspects for students to master.
The way people pronounce English words depens on how the words are
heard in our ears. Therefore, it is important to listen to the right
pronounciation of English. The teacher has to be a good model in
pronouncing English sounds.

This study was conducted with the aim of finding and analyzing the most
common errors in fricative sounds at UIN Sayyid Ali Rahmatulloh
Tulungagung. According to (Carruthers, 1987) States that Learning another
language pronunciation is difficult because some sounds of the new
language do not exist in the learner’s native language.
 Research Problem
A. The kinds of errors are made by the eight semester
students of English Department in UIN Sayid Ali
Rahmatulloh Tulungagung in pronouncing English fricatives
sounds?

B. The sources of of errors are made by the eight semester

students of English Department in UIN Sayyid Ali
Rahamtulloh in pronouncing English fricatives sounds?
Significance of the Study

For the Teachers

The researcher hopes the result of this study will be useful

for the teachers.

For the Students

From the result of this study, the students know how to

pronounce English fricative, and know which part of their
organs of speech that are used to produce English fricative
sounds
 Scope and Limitation

This research was conducted at UIN Sayyid Ali Rahmatulloh Tulungagung.

This research focuses on how the subject perceives and pronounces
English fricative sounds contain in the words.

The researcher wants to identify the error of pronouncing English fricative

sounds. The fricative sounds that will be identified are /f/, /v/, / θ/, /ð/, /s/, /z/,
/ʃ/, /ʒ/ and /h.
Definition of Key Terms
Error Analysis

Error Analysis is one of the most major field of second

language ecquisition since it investigates errors made by
learner and describes a set of procedures to identify.

Pronounciation

Pronunciation is learnt by repeating sounds and correcting them

when produced inaccurately. When learners start learning
pronunciation they make new habits and overcome the
difficulties resulting from the first language(Gilakjani, 2016).

Fricative Sounds

Fricative is a sound produced by bringing the mouth into

position to block the passage of air, but not closing it completely,
so air moving through the mouth produces an audible friction.
CHAPTER
02. A. Definition of Pronunciation

Review of Related B. Types of Consonant

Literature
C. Error Analysis

D. Source of Errors

E. Role of Error in Pronouncing

F. Previous Study
CHAPTER
03. A. Research Design
Research
Methode B. Participant

C. Research Instrument

D. Teqnique of Data Collection

Research Design

Descriptive
Qantitative
Methode
 Participant
Subject
The main subjects were the eight
semester students of English
Department at UIN Sayyid Ali
Rahamtulloh Tulungagung. The
source of data was from the
phonetic transcription of the
recorded pronounciation of
English department students.
Population &
Sample
The population was taken from
the eighth semester students of
the 2018 academic year as many
as seven classes. That is, 8A,
8B, 8C, 8D, 8E, 8F, 8G. And the
sample of this research was 20
students of 280 students. This
research used simple random
sampling.
 Research Instruments

This research used record and interview as

instruments
 Technique of the
Data Collection

Record Interviw
The students say the word Researchers use interviews
that the researcher has to find out the source of errors
prepared, using the voice from students, researchers
recording provided by the have provided sentences that
researcher. have been provided
 Data Analysis

Identyfying
Errors
The researcher was listening
to the students’ utterance in
form of audio recorded and
compared the sounds
repeatedly with the correct
phonetic transcription.
Categorizing Evaluating
the researcher categorized Researchers interviewed
what kinds of errors about why they made such
pronounced by the students mistakes. All fricative
and presented use errors were evaluated to
percentage. see the source of the error.
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It revealed that the were 4 types of fricative

04. prononciation errors this study they were (a)

omission error (74 or 0,27%), (b) addition errors
(22 or 0,08%), (c) misformation errors (80 or
0,29%), and (d) misordering error (94 or 0,34%).
It indicated that most of the students made error
Finding and in misfordering 95(0,34%) with high percentage
Discussion than misformation.
In addition the source of errors in pronounciation,
The researcher found that the source leads to
misordering caused by the hypothesized false
concept. They make mistakes about the
difference of target language items which lead to
wrong conceptualization, they read a lot of words
unable to differentiate between “reward” and
“price”.
 CHAPTER
05.
Conclussion and
Suggestion The students should learn and practice
more about English sound to make
their pronunciation better and
improve their ability in pronouncing
English sound.
Thank You