Abstract
he topic of this study is about the use of U-Dictionary application in learning pronunciation components to the high-level student in intelligibility principles in order to get an understandable conversation in speaking practice. The research questions are asking about the way of using the U-Dictionary application in assisting a student in learning pronunciation components and how are her responses based on the tripartite model from Rosenberg and Havland (1960); affect, behavior, and cognition. The participant is a student in the fourth semester of university in Karawang and the data has been collected by an interview based on the Narrative Inquiry method from Clandinin and Connelly (2000). The finding showed that the application can assist her in learning pronunciation components especially for segmental features such as vowel and consonant and supra-segmental ones in intonation. In short, the U-Dictionary Application can help a student in learning pronunciation components even for supra-segmental features only one aspect existed.
Highlights
Speaking is one of four skills - writing, listening and reading - that has to be mastered when someone is learning English
This research focuses on the way of U-Dictionary Application in assisting students in learning pronunciation components to high-level students and her response to it
She liked English because she got a task from her middle-English teacher to sing an English song as speaking practice. She told her old sister and ask her suggestion about a song that she had to sing along in filling the practice. She followed the suggestion to choose and decide “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perry and she trained her voice and English pronunciation to get the best result after the practice
Summary
Speaking is one of four skills - writing, listening and reading - that has to be mastered when someone is learning English. One of the many components of speaking is pronunciation (Syafitri & Sumardi, 2018). Cambridge dictionary describes that “pronunciation is the way which a word or letter is said, or said correctly or how a language is spoken”. It is important in learning English in speaking to make the listeners understand what the speakers said. It is in line with the intelligibility feature in the pronunciation component (Levis, 2005)
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