Abstract
This study aimed to explore the source of IL errors on male and female students’ pronunciation. The participants in this research were ten college students who were participated in an English speech contest organised by English Student Association of UNNES 2019. The ten participants consist of five male and five female students who came from different kinds of University in Indonesia. In this study, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data by using a video recorder as an instrument to collect the data. The result of this research showed that there were four sources of errors which influenced male and female students in producing IL errors on pronunciation. Those were L1 transfer, different form of plural between L1 and L2, the existence of sounds with the same phonetic features but different in distribution, and English foreign sounds. The second result described that the source of errors on male and female college students was mostly similar, and they had no significant differences. Last result showed that male students made more variation of IL errors on their pronunciation than female students.
Highlights
Pronunciation is a key component in English speaking proficiency because incorrect pronunciation may potentially lead to miscommunication and communication breakdown
This study aimed to explore the source of IL errors on male and female students’ pronunciation
The researcher did some steps in analyzing the data such as: recording the speech from some participants, selecting ten speeches as samples, classifying the speeches into male and female categories, transcribing the recorded speech, finding out the IL errors, classifying the IL errors based on the source of errors and evaluating the results
Summary
Pronunciation is a key component in English speaking proficiency because incorrect pronunciation may potentially lead to miscommunication and communication breakdown. English pronunciation is complex because it has its own phonological rules and different system of alphabets, word spelling and sound distributions in which they are totally different compare to Indonesian pronunciation. These factors lead into unintelligible pronunciation, in which this is in contrast with the goal of learning pronunciation. Yuzawa, (2007, as cited in Sibaja, 2019) said that intelligible English pronunciation is a basic and essential skill required for L2 learners. Learners learn different sounds and sound features and improve their speaking proficiency that lead into good communication. As Fabianto and Hartono (2015) stated, English is an International language in which people must have appropriate English skill in speaking, and pronunciation has an essential role in it
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