Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 9, No 3 (2020)

Students Ability and Problem in Pronouncing English Vowels Made By the Second Semester Students of Universitas Negeri Padang

Muhammad Zaki Arevi (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Ratmanida Ratmanida (Universitas Negeri Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Sep 2020

Abstract

This study aimed to find out students’ ability and problem at English Education of Universitas Negeri Padang. This research is designed as descriptive qualitative research. In this study, the researcher focused on the first year students of English Education program in Universitas Negeri Padang in the Academic Year of 2019/2020. There are 20 students as the subject of the research. The process of data collection in this research had to be put in two activities, those are: recording and transcription. The findings of this research indicate that most vowels are pronounced well by the students. There are nine vowels classified as excellent category, they are vowels are vowel /e/ 79,5 (99.4%), vowel /i:/ 78,5 (98.12%), vowel /I/ 78 (97.5%), vowel /ɑ:/ 77,5 (96.9%), vowel /ə/ 76 (95%), vowel /u:/ 75,5 (96.9%), vowel /ɔ:/ 72 (90%), vowel /ɛ:/ 67,5 (84.34%), and vowel /ɑ/ 65 (81.25%). And there are three vowels classified as good category which vowels are vowel /ʌ/ 62 (77.5%), vowel /æ/ 56 (70%), and vowel /ʊ/ 55,5 (69.4%).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jelt

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching is a journal published by English Language Teaching Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang. This journal is published three times a year (March, June, and September). The main purpose of this journal is to advance and foster English Language Teaching or ...