An Analysis of Pronunciation Errors Made By Indonesian Singers in Singing English Song on Youtube

Abstract

This research was aimed to know the errors of pronunciation made by Indonesian singers in singing English song on YouTube. The subjects are singers in the age range of 18 to 25 years old. The researcher found 4 Indonesian singers on YouTube which are famous and have a good voice. This research used qualitative method. To collect the data, the researcher searched an American singer on Google, then found a good song and the lyrics on YouTube. Listen to the original music several times and then try to find the Indonesian singers who covered the same song, the last is listen to their singing and analyze it. The researcher found 14 words that were mispronounced by the Indonesian singers on their YouTube channel. There were 8 consonants, they were /θ/,/ð/, /dӡ/, /d/, /v/, /c/, /s/, /p/, and 2 vowels that mispronounced by them, They were /ɪ/, and /æ/. There were several causes that affect their pronunciation. In this research, the researcher hopes that this research can make the singers, students, teachers, etc, to improve their pronunciation skill.

Proficiency and Error of English Final Consonant Cluster Pronunciation Produced by Sundanese Students

“…They also made pronunciation errors in six parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions including mispronouncing English affixes and prefixes. The types of pronunciation errors made by the students were substituting English sounds with Indonesian sounds, omitting English sounds, and generalizing the pronunciations of tense morphemes which ended with /-ed/ (Bandung & Muchlas, 2020;Nurmalasari & Kania, 2019;Pratiwi & Indrayani, 2021;Rafael, 2019;Rahman & Tralala, 2021).…”