AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS ON ENGLISH HOMOPHONE

Annida, Tia and Mei, Hardiah and Ira, Maisarah (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS ON ENGLISH HOMOPHONE. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

he aims of this study are to find out students’ knowledge and pronunciation about homophone by students of eighth semester of English education study program at Bengkulu University. It employs qualitative research methods to collect data, including knowledge test and pronunciation test by using Praat and Live transcribe application. The result of this research revealed that in the knowledge test there are 36.5% students are in the excellent category, 32% students in the good category and 16.2% students in the enough category. Furthermore, only 1.4% students in the category of poor and 1.4% student in the category of very poor. While in the pronunciation test there are 2 students in the good pronunciation, 2 students in the close to good pronunciation, and 6 students in the not good pronunciation. Moreover, there were 2 vowel, 2 consonant, and 3 diphthongs that the most of the students found difficulty in pronouncing homophone, the phoneme are vowel /ɔ/, and /u/; consonant /t/, /d/, diphthong /ʊɚ/, /əʊ/ and /eɪ/. Based on the findings, the researcher found that students of eighth semester of English education study program still not good enough in mastering homophone. Keywords: Analysis, Knowledge, Pronunciation, Homophone

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