The Effectiveness Of Using Tongue Twisters In Teaching English Pronunciation

Abstract

Pronunciation comprehension is one of the most important aspects of English speaking and listening skill. The people who communicate only with vocabulary skill, of course, this is not enough to giving understanding for others. Many words of English have little differences in the spelling, intonation, stress, or pronunciation generally. Tongue Twister is one of the learning and teaching strategies forgiving, and grasping information with good preparation through activating prior knowledge in pronunciation skill activity. The aim of the tongue twister technique is to motivate students’ comprehension of pronunciation by activating prior knowledge. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of using the tongue twister technique on the eleventh grade students’ pronunciation comprehension achievement. This research is classical-experimental research which employs XI A as the experimental group and XI B as the control group. The researcher conducted this research in five meetings, four meetings as teaching in class, and post-test. The data were collected by using answering the question and practical pronunciation comprehension test. There are some suggestions for the English teacher, and the future researchers. The English teacher can apply this technique in pronunciation class because the students are able to achieve better score by using tongue twister technique. In addition, it is suggested that the result of this research can be used as reference or information to conduct a further research on the use of tongue twister technique through individual project.