Thai and Indonesian English Students' Problems in Pronouncing English Fricative and Affricate Sounds: A Case Study in IAIN Kediri

Anam, Moh Khoirul

doi:10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.36

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“…Some phonological aspects in English are absent in Bahasa, such as word stress and several consonant sounds. The finding is in line with many of the previous studies which reveal that the difference of the phonological system between both languages plays a significant role in the student difficulty when learning pronunciation (Donal, 2016;Lestiono and Gusdian, 2017;Gusdian and Lestiono, 2018;Anam, 2018;Sundari, 2018;Andi-Pallawa and Alam, 2013).…”

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“…It has generally been accepted that many Indonesian students still find it a tedious journey to acquire English pronunciation (Donal, 2016;Lestiono and Gusdian, 2017;Gusdian and Lestiono, 2018;Anam, 2018;Sundari, 2018;Andi-Pallawa and Alam, 2013). Such a tenet is plausible to acknowledge as both Bahasa and English do not share comparable phonological and phonetic systems Dardjowidjojo (1978).…”

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Incorporating Hijaiyah Sounds in English Pronunciation Class: Students’ Perception

Gusdian

Lestiono

2020

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Indonesian students still find it perplexing to acquire English pronunciation as both Bahasa as their mother tongue and English do not share equivalent phonological and phonetic systems. Meanwhile, Arabic (in this case is their Hijaiyah sounds) is proven to share some phonological resemblance to some English sounds. Therefore, it is the aim of the study to investigate the student perception of the implementation of Hjaiyah sounds in their English pronunciation class. The study employed a descriptive research design as the approach. The participants of the study were 36 students of the English Study Program in the academic year of 2019/2020. These participants were third-semester students undertaking their Intermediate Speaking class. Questionnaire and interview guide were utilized as data instruments. In collecting the data, some procedures including distributing the questionnaire and conducting the interview were carried out. In data analysis, the data from the survey were transformed into a percentage to obtain a more general image of the data description. The data from the interview were also transcribed. Finally, the findings were examined and discussed using both narrative and numerical description. As a result, this study has confirmed that the implementation of Hijaiyah sounds in teaching English pronunciation is perceived positively by the students. HIGHLIGHTS: Indonesian students still find it perplexing to acquire English pronunciation as both Bahasa as their mother tongue and English do not share equivalent phonological and phonetic systems. Arabic (in this case is students' Hijaiyah sounds) is proven to share some phonological resemblance to some English sounds.

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Section: Student Perception On English Pronunciationsupporting

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Incorporating Hijaiyah Sounds in English Pronunciation Class: Students’ Perception

Gusdian

Lestiono

2020

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“…The voiceless palato-alveolar fricative [ʃ] does not exist in the Indonesian phonological system as well. Anam (2018) and Sulistyorini & Wibowo (2021) state that due to the sound being not existing in the Indonesian sound system, students did not understand how to pronounce the sounds [ʃ] and therefore, students often substitute the sound to the one seemingly similar or closest in production based on the place of articulation, which is the sound [s].…”

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“…Hakim (2012) found that Javanese students tend to put more stress using the sounds [d] and [ ð] when speaking English due to the influence of their Javanese accents. Anam (2018) Lin (2014) found out that EFL Japanese speakers would add some vowels in English words ending with consonant; while Arabic students would insert vowel [I] in an English initial word.…”

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Students’ Pronunciation Variations of Fricative Labiodental and Fricative Palato-Alveolar Sounds

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Evaay

Sukristiningsih

2022

Metathesis.J.Engl.Lang.Lit.Teach.

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This study aims at finding out the pronunciation variations on labiodental and palato-alveolar sounds produced by Year 2020 students of English Education Department University of Papua (UNIPA). The data were collected through the recording of students pronouncing lists of provided vocabulary of intended sounds. Ten students participated in the research. The research results show that students produced some pronunciation variations of both fricative labiodental and fricative palato-alveolar sounds. The most pronunciation variation occurs in the sound of fricative palato-alveolar voiced [ʒ]. Keywords: pronunciation variations,fricative, labiodental, palato-alveolar

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“…In the impressionistic analysis, /ʃ/ was deemed to have been articulated as [tʃ], like the word "shop" /ʃɒp/ realized as [tʃɒp], suggesting that /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ are problematic sounds for L2 Thai learners. Several research studies (Anam, 2018;Brière & Chiachanpono, 1980;Kitikanan, 2016Kitikanan, , 2017Pansottee, 1992;Richards, 1969;Roengpitya, 2011) have been put forward to address the production or perception of /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ sounds of L2 Thai learners. However, none of them have been conducted to explore the production of /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ sounds by L2 Thai learners by comparing them with the production of the Thai "ช" /tɕʰ/, and focusing on other factors such as vowel contexts and L2 learner's experience.…”

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The Impressionistic Study of English /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ in Initial Position by L2 Thai Learners

Huang¹

2020

ELT

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Although studies on English sound learning by L2 Thai learners have been widely examined, there have been no studies on the production of the English /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ sounds in the initial position by L2 Thai learners with consideration of vowel contexts, the experience of L2 learners and target sounds. The aim of this study is to examine the production of the English /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ sounds in the initial position while taking the aforementioned factors into account. The data was from 48 L2 Thai learners, and the subjects were divided into two groups of university students: English-majors and non-English-majors. The two target sounds: English /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ together with the Thai /tɕʰ/ sound were tested in 27 words (9 words for each target sound). The subjects produced the target sounds five times, and their production was transcribed by two British transcribers. The results showed that the subjects had high target-like production when producing /ʃ/ but low target-like production when producing /tʃ/. In finding the correlation between the factors and the target-like production, neither the vowel contexts nor the experience could account for the production. The only factor that relates to the production of English /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ was the target sounds, i.e. the number of the productions that was deemed non-target-like was significantly higher when the target sound was /tʃ/ than when it was /ʃ/. This suggests that the target sounds, rather than the L2 experience and the vowel contexts, play a significant role in L2 speech production.

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Thai and Indonesian English Students' Problems in Pronouncing English Fricative and Affricate Sounds: A Case Study in IAIN Kediri

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Incorporating Hijaiyah Sounds in English Pronunciation Class: Students’ Perception

Incorporating Hijaiyah Sounds in English Pronunciation Class: Students’ Perception

Students’ Pronunciation Variations of Fricative Labiodental and Fricative Palato-Alveolar Sounds

The Impressionistic Study of English /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ in Initial Position by L2 Thai Learners

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