PRONUNCIATION PROBLEMS FACED BY STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT BATCH 2020 OF LAMBUNG MANGKURAT UNIVERSITY IN PRODUCING SPOKEN ENGLISH

Abstract

This study aims to identify interference in English pronunciation and analyze the cause of the interference in English pronunciation in English Department students at Lambung Mangkurat University batch 2020. This research is classified as a descriptive study that examines the phenomenon of interference at the phonological level. The subjects of this study were students of the English Department of Lambung Mangkurat University batch 2020 who spoke Banjar as their mother tongue. The instrument used in this study was an oral test. To analyze the interference phenomenon, this study uses a generative phonological approach. This study found that the Banjar Hulu language did interfere with English pronunciation, interference that occurred in Vowel, Consonant, and diphthong. Based on the conclusions above, the English Department students of the batch of 2020 must be more deeply into the use of English phonemes. As prospective English teachers, they must understand and study correctly how to pronounce words in English. So that in the future they can teach the oral English language correctly. This research result can be a starting point for researching the pronunciation problems in the speaking class in which the students must use English from an oral production perspective.