Improving students ability in pronouncing consonant letter g & c of eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 4 palu through Authentic

material
By Moh. Isra A 121 10 081

Chapter I
Background
Pronunciation is one of the language components that must be mastered by the learners in order to be successful in communication. Having good pronunciation also can help the students to transfer their ideas smoothly and can make conversation understandable.

English has twelve vowels and twenty-seven consonants while Bahasa Indonesia has six vowels and twenty-three consonants. The different number of consonant in

English and Indonesia as same as the different way it is

pronounced because English have more complicated consonant than Bahasa Indonesia.

Indonesia only has 1 consonant G in whatever environment as in (initial position: goyang, genggam medial position: jaga, agak final position: rembug, bedug etc) while in English there are 2 variation sounds of consonant G, they are /g/ (green, figure, great grey etc) and /d/ (giraffe, gym, imagine etc)

The authentic materials are the materials that have been produced originally to fulfil some social purpose in the language community. Authentic material is the real material from native speaker which can stimulate the students to be familiar with the real language communication.

Problem Statement

Can the use of Authentic Materials improve the ability of the eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 4 Palu in pronouncing consonant letter g and c?

Research objective The objective of this research is to prove that the use of authentic materials can improve students ability in pronouncing consonant letter g and c of the eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 4 Palu.

Research Significance For the students, it is expected to build their confidence in English language especially to say word by word that they do not know and use the language. For the teachers, the results of this research will make a variation of the media that can be used in teaching English. For the readers, the result of this research is expected to become scientific information.

Research Scope The researcher will limit the research on pronouncing of consonant letter g and c and the use of authentic, listening and reading materials.

Chapter II
Related studies Basri & Zarkiani (2011) Predicting the pronunciation of two troublesome consonants, c and g, in English.

Sabet (2012) The Impact of Authentic Listening Materials on Elementary EFL Learners Listening Skills.

Literature review
Pronunciation
Elements of pronunciation

Speech sounds
Consonant The Indonesian consonant

Literature review
State of gllotis
Place of articulation Manner of articulation
Consonant letter g
The Indonesian Velar stops [g]

Consonant letter c
The Indonesian c

Authentic Material
Advantages of using Authentic Materials as a media in teaching pronunciation

 Theoretical framework

Hypothesis
The use of authentic materials can improve the ability of the eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 4 Palu in pronouncing consonant letter g and c.

Chapter III Research Method

Research Design In this research, true-experimental design with two group pre-test and post-test design will be used.

(Arikunto 2010)

Population and Sample

Population Population Distribution
No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Classes XI IPA A XI IPA B XI IPA C XI IPA D XI IPA E XI IPS A XI IPS B XI IPS C XI IPS D XI IPS E Total Number of Population 31 35 37 35 34 31 32 33 31 33 312

 Sample

The researcher will choose the sample by using random sampling technique since there are 10 classes of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Palu.

Research Variables
The dependent variable of this research is improving the pronunciation of consonant letter g and c of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Palu, while the independent variable is the use of authentic materials as the media.

 Technique of collecting data

Test
Pre-test Post-test

Treatment

 Technique of data analysis

To analyze the data x= 100 To count the mean scores of the students Md= To calculate the SUM of square deviation = To know the significant difference in the result between pre-test and post-test of both Experimental and control group t=