Institusion
Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram
Author
Saskia, Zainul Akbar
Subject
420 Bahasa Inggris, Anglo-Saxon
Datestamp
2023-02-24 04:12:50
Abstract :
One of the skills that must be possessed by students to be able to speak English properly and correctly is good pronunciation skills. Pronunciation skills play a very important role in terms of communication or providing information precisely and accurately so that communication can proceed as intended. In the reality, pronunciation is still considered as one of the problems in developing English in educational environments; many college students are not familiar with words in English. Departing from these problems, this study tries to explore the level of students' pronunciation skills at the Muhammadiyah University of Mataram in the fourth semester. The researcher utilizes a qualitative approach by sharing the test and record the students' pronunciation. The data was carefully analyzed in four steps; collecting, reducing, displaying the data and drawing a conclusion. In general, the findings show that the students' ability in terms of pronunciation is on average or the average score reach 63. Three students have a score higher than 75 or good criteria and a student has a score of 72 or average criteria. On the contrary, three students have low ability; one student has a score of 54 or poor criteria and two of them have 46 and 32 which refer to very poor criteria. Therefore, the data shows that students still need further study to improve their pronunciation ability.