STUDENT PERCEPTIONS ON ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION AFTER TAKING COURSE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
STUDENT PERCEPTIONS ON ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION AFTER TAKING COURSE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY ABSTRACT This study aims to find out how students' perceptions of pronunciation after getting the subject of phonetics and phonology. To answer the fomulation of this problem, researcher used a qualitative descriptive approach. The results of this study indicates that respondents have the same perception that English learners are greatly assisted by phonetics and phonology courses in improving pronunciation reducing pronunciation mistakes, being able to read phonetics transcription in the dictionary and also increase confidence when speaking English both in and out of class. INTRODUCTION Mastery speaking skills require great effort. In addition to having a vocabulary that many, English learners must also be able to say every word well and correctly. Mastery Pronunciation includes the ability to understand the sound system or phonology. In the English ...