IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Liter

Improving Students’ Pronunciation in Word Stress through TTS (Text To Speech) Feature: On a Google Translate Application

Yuliana Sain (Universitas Muhammadiyah Kendari)
Juan Cobar (Universitas Muhammadiyah Kendari)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Aug 2023

Abstract

This research aimed to find out the improvement of students’ pronunciation in word stress through text-to-speech software at the 11th-grade students of SMAN 1 Kaledupa, in the academic year of 2021/2022. The samples of this study were 22 students, and purposive sampling was applied for this research. This research used a pre-experimental research design where there were three sessions conducted to reach the result of this research. Pre-test and post-test design consisted of 5 meetings, including the treatments. The pre-test in this research is to obtain students' prior knowledge, and the post-test is to measure students’ improvement after the researcher applies or uses the text-to-speech software in the treatment session. The finding of this research showed a significant improvement in students’ pronunciation after the use of text-to-speech software. This was proven by the mean score before treatment was 32.04, and the mean score after treatment has given was 60. The percentage of the improvement was 87.26%. The t-test value (6.106178) was higher than the t-table value (2.07961). H1 is accepted while H0 is rejected, and it can be concluded that there is a significant improvement in students’ pronunciation in word stress.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ideas

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

IDEAS Journal is published twice a year in the months of June and December (P-ISSN 2338-4778 and E-ISSN 2548-4192); it presents articles on English language teaching and learning, linguistics, and literature. The contents include analyses, studies and application of theories, research report, ...