THE STUDENTS ABILITY IN PRNOUNCING ENGLISH PALATAL ALVEOLAR FRICATIVE CONSONANT AND PALATAL ALVEOLAR AFFRICATIVE CONSONANT AT THE NINTH GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER 17 KOTA JAMBI

uci Wulandari, uci Wulandari (2022) THE STUDENTS ABILITY IN PRNOUNCING ENGLISH PALATAL ALVEOLAR FRICATIVE CONSONANT AND PALATAL ALVEOLAR AFFRICATIVE CONSONANT AT THE NINTH GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER 17 KOTA JAMBI. skripsi thesis, Universitas Batanghari.

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ABSTRACT Wulandari.S. 2022. The Student’s Ability in Pronouncing English Palatal Alveolar Fricative Consonant and Palatal Alveolar Affricative Consonant at The ninth Grade of Junior High School Number 17 Kota Jambi: A Thesis, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Batanghari University, Supervisor I : Efa Silfia M.Pd., Supervisor II : Kartika Dewi M.Pd. Key words: speaking, pronouncing, Palatal Alveolar fricative and affricative, consonants Pronunciation is one of the components in speaking ability. This component plays very important role in communication, because by pronouncing the English words correctly students are able to avoid misunderstanding when they are speaking, therefore to be able to say English words fluently and correctly, the students should have good matery in pronunciation especially in pronouncing English palatal alveolar fricative and affricative consonant sounds. This research is aimed at describing students” ability to pronounce English palatal alveolar fricative and affricative consonants (∫ and t∫) ) and find out in which position ( initial, medial, and final) are the most difficult to pronounce. The design of this research was descriptive quantitative method approach. This research was conducted Junior High School Number 17 Kota Jambi in January 2022. in conducting this research, the researcher administered the pronunciation test one time, the. The population of this research was the ninth grade students at SMPN 17 kota Jambi in academic year 2021-2022, the total number of them were 340 students. As the sample was the ninth grade student , they consist of 10 students. The researcher used purposive sampling technique in taking the sample if this research. The result of this research showed that on the test there were 4 students belong to very good categories, 2 student belongs to good categories, 3 students belong to fair categories, 1 student belongs to weak category and none of the student belong to poor category. the ability of the students in pronouncing the English palatal alveolar fricative (∫) and (t∫) affricative consonant was 78%, this is categorized as good. The students” ability in pronouncing sound (∫) belongs to very good category (85%) and sound (t∫) belongs to good category (73%).

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