EFL STUDENTS' ABILITY IN DIFFERENTIATING ENGLISH HOMOPHONE

Homophones are when one or two written forms share the same pronunciation.
Homophones often cause difficulties for students, especially for EFL students in
listening skills because these words can be mistaken by students in listening
because the word had same pronunciation. From this phenomenon, this study
wanted to see the ability of students to differentiate homophones. This research
design is descriptive research. In this research the population is the fifth-semester
student of English education Department the researcher chooses this population
because this population had passed the listening class. The sample in this research
used Cluster Sampling. There are 30 students selected as the sample of the research.
The data was taken from a listening test with 30 items of question. Based on the
analysis of the students’ results it is found that the overall score of the students was
quite diverse. The test results indicated that students' ability to Differentiate
homophones test was very good. This can be seen from the result from the test and
overall score from most students got a very good predicate from the results of
classifying scores using a score interval. From the findings above researcher had
concluded that student’s ability in differentiating English homophone is very good.
Keywords: Homophone, EFL, Students Ability.