THE USE OF MINIMAL PAIR TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING PRONUNCIATION AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMAN 4 BANTIMURUNG

Indah Fadhilah Rahman

doi:10.24252/eternal.v42.2018.a11

Abstract

This objectives of this research were to find out (1) Use of minimal pair technique in teaching pronunciation at the second year students of SMAN 4 Bantimurung. (2) Whether the minimal pair technique effective in teaching pronunciation or not at the second year students of SMAN 4 Bantimurung. This researcher applied quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent control group design. The sample was taken by using purposive sampling that devided into two groups were 25 students as experimental class and 25 students as control class. The result of the data indicated that there was a significance difference between students’ post-test in the experimental class and the control class. The mean score of post-test (2.96) in the experimental class was greater than the mean score of post-test (2.2) in the control class and the standard deviation of the post-test (0.83) in experimental class was greater than the standard deviation of the post–test (0.4) in control class and the value of t-test (5.84) was higher than t-Table (2.021). Based on the result of this study implies that use of minimal pair technique was effective to improve the students’ pronunciation ability at the second year students of SMA Negeri 4 Bantimurung. Besides, the significant improvement can be seen from the students’ response to researcher’s performance. They seem more active during teaching learning activity. Therefore, the researchers suggests that the English teacher should implement minimal pair technique in teaching pronunciation in order to improve students’ pronunciation ability.

Highlights

P ronunciation is one of the language components in English which is needed to be learned to support the development of language skills mastery of the students specially in speaking, and it hold an important role in English teaching since mostof country has totally different pronunciation counted Indonesia
The sample was taken by using purposive sampling that devided into two groups were 25 students as experimental class and 25 students as control class
The mean score of post-test (2.96) in the experimental class was greater than the mean score of post-test (2.2) in the control class and the standard deviation of the post-test (0.83) in experimental class was greater than the standard deviation of the post–test (0.4) in control class and the value of t-test (5.84) was higher than t-Table (2.021)

Summary

INTRODUCTION

P ronunciation is one of the language components in English which is needed to be learned to support the development of language skills mastery of the students specially in speaking, and it hold an important role in English teaching since mostof country has totally different pronunciation counted Indonesia. Fatmawati (2014) pointed in her research the application of minimal pair to improve the pronunciation of voiced and voiceless sound (a true-experiment research at the eighth grade students of SMPN 13 Palu in academic year 2013/2014) stated that the application of minimal pairs effective to improve the pronunciation of voiced and voiceless sounds It means that the technique made contribution in teaching pronounciation. Khazanah Kebajikan in academic year 2014/2015) concludes that there is significance effect of minimal pairs drill technique on students’ ability in pronouncing similar sound of words The form of Quasi-Experimental design used in this research was Non-equivalent Control Group Design with experimental and control class to find out the enhancement of students’ ability in differentiating the pronounciation of the same sound of words by using minimal pair technique. The following tables showed the classification of frequency and percentage the score of students’ pronunciation at the second year students of SMAN 4 Bantimurung in pre-test and post-test of experimental class

Very Poor

Findings

The students