Abstract
The research was purposed to identify the causal factors of the English Students’ Accent interference on the pronunciation in English conversation. To meet the objective, the researcher adopted case study design by Cresswell. The data were gathered through qualitative method based on Miles and Huberman’s technique of data analysis. The research was undertaken in STAIN Watampone, Kabupaten Bone, from March 2017 to May 2017. The finding of the research showed that the the different phoneme areas of Bugis-Speaker with English Speakers and Bugis-Bone is strong/heavy accent are the causal factors that become the interference when the students speak English in English conversation. Referring on the description above, it informed that the students must be aware of their first language interference to their English pronunciation in English conversation.
Highlights
People generally think that speak English with their local language accent isn’t a matter but it is different for some English students in Bone
They focused on short English phrases that instrumentally modified by a native Chinese speaker comparing to the way the native English speaker spoke the same phrases. the result of this study concluded that if explicit training was provided on temporal properties of their speech, the intelligibility of foreign-English speaker may be enhanced
One of the previous researches which held by Sitti Nurpahmi (Nurpahmi, 2013), was the main reference in collecting the data, because the researcher researched the causal factors of Bugis-Bone accent on the pronunciation in English conversation, so knowing the differences of the pronunciation of those both languages makes the researcher easier to describe the main problem of how this Bugis-Bone language as a mother tongue of the subjects can interfere the way they speak English in the situation of classroom and casual conversation
Summary
People generally think that speak English with their local language accent isn’t a matter but it is different for some English students in Bone. Based on the statement above, the researchers intend to research the Bugis-Bone accent interfere on the pronunciation in English conversation.
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