Teachers’ Roles Towards Students’ Pronunciation Ability Based on Pronunciation’s Instructions and Exercises of The Twelfth Grade Students’ English Textbook

Agci Hikmawati,Rindu Handayani

doi:10.32923/sci.v3i2.80

Abstract

Being able to speak fluently with correct pronunciation is the first impression to attract people’s attention. A good pronunciation may be denied by students since they are more focus on expanding their English skills. English textbook takes a beneficial purpose in assisting students to pronounce English words well. Since the instructions and practices would aid students to get involved with pronunciation’s communicative practice. Various ways, clear instructions, and practices would be applied easily by students with the hands of teachers as facilitators and correctors. This research is qualitative research that focuses on analyzing teachers’ roles towards students’ pronunciation ability based on pronunciation’s instructions and exercises of the twelfth-grade students’ English textbook. The author used the qualitative descriptive method to analyze and solve problems. English textbooks need to provide some more comprehensive and clearer instructions and practices to help improve students’ pronunciation, teachers are only the facilitator to help address the materials in English class, and students’ attitude and motivation are two prominent things that learners must have.

Highlights

People tend to speak fluently and accurately
To answer the research question, 'how is the teacher's role in the pronunciation skills of students based on instruction and practice pronunciation in English class X students' high school books?', interviews were conducted with English PNS teachers who had more than 5 years of English teaching experience in 5 secondary schools in
Eventhough there are media that would assist and ease students to practuce, but the textbooks are far more pivotal and one of important learning tools used at schools, rather than any other media, 2) Teachers are only the facilitator to help adress the materials in English class

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People tend to speak fluently and accurately. But, how to do so? How could students communicate with others if they speak English with incorrect pronunciation? Being able to speak fluently with correct pronunciation is the first impression to attract people’s attention. A good pronunciation may be denied by students since they are more focus on expanding their English skills. They do not acknowledge that having good pronunciation would help them at least in the first impression when they are talking English to others, especially to native speakers. Teaching English in Indonesia has a distinctive way with other countries which use English as a second language. This difference comes up to a significant problem since Indonesia’s learners use English as a foreign language. Due to the occasional way of learning English, many learners are not capable of pronouncing English words precisely and accurately. Words are often misspelled such as determine (/detɜ:rmain/), examine (/ekzɜ:main/), hour (/haʊr/) and many others (Yulistyo, 2013)

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