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PHONOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES FACED BY STUDENTS IN LEARNING ENGLISH Ahmad Renaldi; Ranni Putri Stefani; Ingatan Gulö
Proceedings of ISELT FBS Universitas Negeri Padang Vol 4, No 1 (2016): Proceedings of the 4th International Seminar on English Language & Teaching (ISE
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Being exposed to English use at campus, the writers were interested in phonological difficulties faced by the students as second language learners of English. The question arised was about what kinds of phonological difficulties the learners are having in their effort to learn and speak English. Underlining this research question was the objective to focus on those difficulties when teaching English to L2 learners of English. In collecting the data needed, the initiation was to conduct a survey on talks, speeches, and presentations made by the students. From the findings, main areas where to focus on were decided. The results were then used to list possible difficult sounds and asked the students to pronounce them. How they pronounced the words were recorded to be analysed. The students were also interviewed in order to have another measurement to determine the difficulties they faced. As the result, most of the phonological problems found were related to consonant sounds such as voiced dental fricative, voiceless dental fricative, voiceless post-alveolar fricative, and voiced alveolar approximant sounds. These are the striking features among other phonological issues found after conducting the research.
GRAMMATICAL DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH Ni Ketut Ayu Widianingsih; Ingatan Gulö
Proceedings of ISELT FBS Universitas Negeri Padang Vol 4, No 2 (2016): Proceedings of the 4th International Seminar on English Language & Teaching (ISE
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Grammatical rule is among other difficulties found in the process oflearning other languages. this truth also applies to those who are studying english in different levels of education.  second language learners usually make mistakes in certain grammatical rules. this research aimed to identify and analyse such grammatical difficulties in order to give a contribution to the study of linguistics and help students in identifying grammatical errors commonly made by second language learners of english. the data taken for the purpose of this research were from second language students. the writings of the students were copied both from them and from their teachers to be analysed. reading the papers to find grammatical errors was the first thing to do. after underlining those mistakes, the next step was to take notes on the kinds of the errors found. this led the present researchers to group the data into smaller classifications, based on the characteristics the data showed. the data were then analysed in details in order to answer the research question. the result of this research shows that the major kinds of errors made by the students are related to plural markers, articles, verbs, and tenses. hopefully these findings would be beneficial to those studying and teaching english to l2 learners.