AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS ON ENGLISH HOMOPHONE

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