Journal of Language and Literature Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): May

Students’ Phonological Awareness and Their Strategy in Pronuncing Words

Tri Sekar Buana (Faculty of Culture, Management, and Business, Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika, Jl. Pemuda No. 59A, Mataram 83125, Indonesia)
Lalu Ari Irawan (Faculty of Culture, Management, and Business, Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika, Jl. Pemuda No. 59A, Mataram 83125, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 May 2021

Abstract

The result of the study revealed that the students have difficulties in pronouncing words that wre categorized into three parts, those were consonant, vowel, and diphthong. In consonant, the students made errors /p/, /b/, /d?/, /z/, /f/, /v/, /d/, /s/, /r/, /k/, /?/, /t/, /ð/,/?/. In vowels, the students made errors /?/, /æ/, /e/, /?/, /?/, /?/, /i:/, /?/. In diphthong, the students made error /a?/, /??/, /??/, /??/, /a?/. Furthermore, the students’ strategy in their reading activity was categorized into three namely low, middle, and high categories. For low category, the strategy in reading activity was by checking the difficult word in a dictionary, asking the lecture how to pronoun the difficult word, and practicing to read the word continuously. For middle category, the strategy in reading activity was by doing repetition to every single word, listening the pronunciation of the words using u-dictionary, and always practicing to pronounce every single word. For high category, the strategy in reading activity was guessing based on their knowledge pronunciation and make a relation with the word that the same sounds.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jolls

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Journal of Language and Literature Studies is an open access journal which provides perspectives of languages, language teaching, and literature studies. This journal has the Focus and Scope at presenting and discussing outstanding contemporary issues in line with Applied Linguistics, English ...