SHADOWING TECHNIQUE FOR PRONUNCIATION DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Teaching English in Indonesia, students are expected to able to communicate in English as an international language; good pronunciation; English words well. Then, the monotonous technique employed by the teacher in teaching English became the problem too. As the result, the students have low motivation and haven’t been given enough exercises on pronunciation. That is why the aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of the shadowing technique (as alternative pronunciation learning) on students’ pronunciation at the tenth-grade students of SMAN 1 Jetis Ponorogo. This research applied quantitative approach and quasi-experimental study. The data were obtained using a pre-test and a post-test. The data of the pre-test and post-test of both groups were analyzed by using inferential statistics (T-test) that is calculated by using SPSS. The number of the sample in this research was 51 students. From the result of computation, in which the value t-test of is higher than t-table (10.82 > 2.009). Therefore, Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. As can be seen, it can be concluded that shadowing technique is effective in developing the pronunciation of the tenth-grade students of SMAN 1 Jetis Ponorogo.