Mapping Students’ Phonological Problems in Pronouncing English Sounds: A Study on Speakers of Local Languages in West Nusa Tenggara

Arafiq, Arafiq; Yusra, Kamaludin; Saputra, Agus

doi:10.2991/assehr.k.200827.050

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“…The detail classification of the most substituted in vowels were; /ʌ/ sound for short vowel, /ɑ:/ sound for long vowel, /əʊ/ and /eɪ/ for diphthong and most all sounds for triphthong as triphthong consists of diphthong + /ə/ sound which is considered as the fossilization sound of Bimanese. This finding also matches with the study by Arafiq, Yusra and Saputra (2020) who investigate the phonological error in West Nusa Tenggara that Bimanese tend to deviate the vowel sounds. By having the persentage of the correct sounds especially schwa sound /ə/, this present study refuted the research of Arafiq, Yusra and Saputra (2020) which states that the /ə/ is a fossilization for Bimanese.…”

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“…This finding also matches with the study by Arafiq, Yusra and Saputra (2020) who investigate the phonological error in West Nusa Tenggara that Bimanese tend to deviate the vowel sounds. By having the persentage of the correct sounds especially schwa sound /ə/, this present study refuted the research of Arafiq, Yusra and Saputra (2020) which states that the /ə/ is a fossilization for Bimanese. On the contrary, in this study Bimanese clearly can utter the /ə/ sound, they just did not have a knowledge of the English vocabs that they tried to pronounced.…”

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Monocentric Concepts in Phonetic Errors of ‘Bimanese’ EFL Learners

Wulandari

2023

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The open debate between monocentric and plurecentric concepts on pronunciation makes this research carried out. Monocentric is the concept which tends to emphasize an English learning approach for non-native speakers based on standard English or anglo-american style and believes in the existence of error sounds, while plurecentric considers the errorneous as the variety of English instead of error sounds. However, the researcher only tried to investigate the error, which sounded particularly phonetic, by taking 10 Bimanese college students. 50 words were given to the participants, and the record test was used during the pronunciation test. This test became the data to answer what phonetic errors were produced by Bimanese EFL learners using error analysis in the form of qualitative method and descriptive analysis. The communication problems that were caused by phonetic errors were identified as well becoming the second research question to be answered. This was done considering the relationship between intelligibility and pronunciation. The communication processes of two Bimanese Youtubers with foreigners were investigated for understanding the phenomenon of intelligibility and pronunciation using observation tests on four video vlogs. The findings showed that vowels were the most deviated errors produced by Bimanese. The deviation that occurred was barely caused by fossilization and mother tongue interference; the illiteracy of the participants in the pronunciation and the inconsistency of English sound systems took the most. Eventually, the researcher discovered misunderstandings and a lack of confidence that were caused by phonetic errors in the communication process.

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Monocentric Concepts in Phonetic Errors of ‘Bimanese’ EFL Learners

Wulandari

2023

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“…According to Aarsleff (1989), pronunciation is the Cinderella of foreign-language teaching, because Western linguists have studied vocabulary and grammar for much longer than pronunciation, and thus grammar and vocabulary are much better understood by English learners than pronunciation. Also, Arafiq, Yusra, and Saputra (2020) state that the process of teaching English to EFL students must always be tough because it calls for not just a commitment to learn but also an understanding of the phonological distinctions between the students' native tongue and English as the target language.…”

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Identifying the Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Students’ English Word By Word Pronunciation at North Lombok Senior High School

Irwan

Wilian

Arafiq

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JIPP

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Pronunciation is an important component of language learning that must be well mastered in order to support the development of students' competence in language skills, particularly speaking skills. This descriptive research aims to evaluate the accuracy and comprehensibility of English pronunciation among tenth-grade IPS students consisting of 30 students at SMAN 1 Bayan in North Lombok. Qualitative methods were employed, using student voice recordings as primary data and relevant documents as secondary data. The data analysis technique in this study uses the concept of qualitative data analysis developed by Miles and Huberman in (1994), including data reduction, data display and conclusions drawing. The results showed that while some students demonstrated excellent proficiency in English pronunciation, others faced significant challenges in accurately articulating vowel and consonant sounds. These findings highlight the importance of targeted interventions to support struggling students and improve the pronunciation skills of all students. The research questions are focused on the accuracy and comprehensibility of English pronunciation among students in North Lombok. Through our evaluation, we found that the level of accuracy in common words varied among students, with some struggling to pronounce even basic words accurately.

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“…Differences in the phonological features of learners' mother tongue impose some limitations on which learners can afford to perform English skills, especially speaking. Negative emotions and behaviors, such as fear of being laughed at, are a major cause of failure (Arafiq et al, 2020).…”

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Students’ Awareness in Coping with Pronunciation Problems: A Study Among the Second Semester Students of English Department FKIP at University of Mataram

Amalia,

Amin,

Arafiq

2023

JEEF

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Students’ awareness is one of the challenges in language learning, one of which is aware of strategies used and the problems in pronunciation to be able to correctly produce and pronounce the sounds in the target language. This study aims at analysing how concerned students are with pronunciation problems of English, the problems in English pronunciation, and the strategies used by students in coping with pronunciation problems. Mixed method, both quantitative and qualitative method is applied in this study. There are 20 students of English department in University of Mataram taken as sample in this study. The data reveals that, with the detail 11 items, most of the students are concerned, and 4 more items are the things that they are not concerned about. Meanwhile for the pronunciation problems, dental fricatives were the most common errors made by the students and followed by vowel sound and alveolar fricative as the second most error sounds, also pronunciation type of alveolar plosive, postalveolar fricative, retroflex plosive, affricative, and labiodental fricative were the least mispronounced. Thus students were also interviewed for pronunciation strategies, the result shows that most students used more than one strategies. This resulst is expected to give the students further information about new alternatives of strategies in coping with pronunciation problems to improve English speaking skill and enhance the theories and methods in the teaching of pronunciation.

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Mapping Students’ Phonological Problems in Pronouncing English Sounds: A Study on Speakers of Local Languages in West Nusa Tenggara

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Monocentric Concepts in Phonetic Errors of ‘Bimanese’ EFL Learners

Monocentric Concepts in Phonetic Errors of ‘Bimanese’ EFL Learners

Identifying the Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Students’ English Word By Word Pronunciation at North Lombok Senior High School

Students’ Awareness in Coping with Pronunciation Problems: A Study Among the Second Semester Students of English Department FKIP at University of Mataram

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