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PRONUNCIATION ERRORS MADE BY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN READING ENGLISH TEXTS ALOUD

Wuri Syaputri

wurisyaputri@gmail.com

English Department, State University of Semarang

Abstract

The objectives of this study identified the types, causes, the teacher/ students overcome, and teacher’s influence in causing students pronunciation errors. The method of this study was qualitative descriptive. The result of the data analysis showed that the student’s pronunciation errors were defined into pre-systematic, systematic, and post-systematic errors. The students got the difficulties in pronouncing /ŋ/, /d/, /ʤ/, /ʧ/, /z/, /ð/, /θ/, /∫/, and /g/. The causes of errors were interference, intralingual and developmental errors. The teacher overcomes the errors by repetition, silence and correction.

Key Words: Error analysis; Pronunciation; Reading aloud.

What is Immersion?

Mike Bostwick

Language immersion is an approach to foreign language instruction in which the usual curricular activities are conducted in a foreign language. This means that the new language is the medium of instruction as well as the object of instruction. Immersion students acquire the necessary language skills to understand and communicate about the subject matter set out in the school's program of instruction. They follow the same curricula, and in some instances, use the same materials (translated into the target language) as those used in the non-immersion schools of their district.

Conversational Structure

A. Definition of Conversation

Conversation is clearly the prototypical kind of language usage, the form in which we are all first exposed to language. All major aspects of pragmatic organization are connected to usage in conversation such as  Deixis: encoding of temporal, spatial, social, discourse parameters organized around the assumption of co-present conversational participants. Presupposition: involving constraints on the way in which information has to be presented if it is to be introduced to particular participants with specific shared knowledge and assumptions about the world. Implicatures: deriving from specific assumptions about conversational context.  Speech acts: building on the assumption of a conversational matrix (e.g., betting requires an uptake to be effective).