AN ERROR ANALYSIS IN THE PRONUNCIATION PRODUCED BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY AS EFL ADULT LEARNERSMentari Dwi Susanti121012083

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The importance of analyzing phonological error because the existence of phonological error proved that learners still had difficulties in FL sound imitating.The present study aims at the types of phonological errors produced by English department students of Airlangga University as EFL adult learners. The phonological errors focused on level segmental (vowel and consonant sound).Pronunciation was the production skill that produces sounds to make meaning communicatively.

The wrongness of transferring L1 into second language (L2) that caused interference or negative transfer because the learners L2 knowledge was incomplete (Crystal 1980; Richard, Platt & Weber 1992; Kormos 2006).NEXTBACK

-PHONOLOGICAL ERRORS PATTERN-The present study utilized sources of intelligibility problems proposed by Kenworthy (1987).Segmental ErrorsSound substitutionsSound deletionsSound insertionsLinks between words :A linking sound A sound mergerA composite sound

NEXTBACK-Qualitative approach--Six respondents- who based on the following criteria: (1) they are English department students in Airlangga University batch of 2010, (2) they had Javanese dialect as their informal language, (3)they lived in Surabaya, (4) they have passed the class English Phonetic-Phonological, (5) they have learned Indonesian since their childhood.- The tool in collecting the data -First Test : borrowing words list consisted of 170 words that a test focused on the English vowels and consonants individually that did not exist in Indonesian sound systemSecond Test : several sentence and phrase that measured the correct of students actual linking sounds -RECORD--TRANSCRIBE-- In order to great justification, the researcher compared between standard phonetics transcription and students actual transcription by using Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary software.This software helped to ensure the English sound that is standardized.- Asked to an expert lecture in English department of Airlangga University to define the transcription of the recordings has been correct.Listened students recording carefully.

NEXTBACKCONSONANTS CHANGE-SOUND SUBSTITUTIONS-

-SOUND DELETIONS-

-SOUND INSERTIONS--

VOWELS CHANGE-SOUND SUBSTITUTIONS-The substitutions of vowel [i:] into [], [e]

-SOUND DELETIONS--SOUND INSERTIONS-

soundswordsOxfordR1R2[]JanitorMajesticMahjong[ntr][mestk] [m::][ntr][mestk][m:j:][jntor][mjestk] [m: j:][v]ValetAvatar Breve [vle][vt:r] [bri:v][fale] [ft:r][brf][falet] [fat:r] [brf][]ChicMachete Cache [i:k] [meti] [k][ci:ks] [msi:t][ke][k][mct][ke][]ThatawayMotherlandSoothe [twe] [mrlnd][su: ]][detwe] [mderlen] [s:][detwe] [mderlen][su:d]

soundswordsOxfordR1R2[t]frontage[frt][fron][fronte][t]Crisp [krsp][krp][krs][d]Motherland[mrlnd][mderlen] [mderlen]

soundswordsOxfordR1R2[s]chopper[:pr][coprs][opr]

soundswordsOxfordR1R2[i]Cum laude[kml:di][kmlod] [kmlod]

[eI]cafe[kfe][kafe][kafe]

soundswordsOxfordR1R2[]biscuit[bskt][bskt] [bskt]

NEXTBACKA LINKING SOUNDSA SOUND MERGERA COMPOSITE SOUND

NEXTBACKThe result of the study has appeared that adult learners have problem in consonant sound such as [t], [], [t], [d], [v], [] and [].

The problem of vowel sounds was resided such as [i:], [], [], [:], [:] and [u:].Djajadiningrat (2011)

found some Indonesian-English learner cannot figure out some particular English vowels sound error such as [], [], and [] and consonants sound error in [], [], [], [d], and [t], [v].Jehma & Phoocharoensil (2014)

who investigated the English fricatives and stop pronunciation errors produced by Pattani-Malay learners of English.Interlingual transfer was the most crucial problem in transferring into foreign language.

Brown (2007), interference is incorrectly transferred or incorrectly associated with an item to be learned that effects of the native language on the target (the second) language.

It represented that adult learners tended to utilize their mother tongue when they transferring into foreign language.

NEXTBACK The result of the study established that there were consonant sound errors such as, [t], [], [t], [d], [v], [] and [].

The problem of vowel sounds was resided such as [i:], [], [], [:], [:] and [u:].

Subsequently, the researcher found that length vowel in English vowel sound system was different from Indonesian vowel. The shortening of vowels happened since the sounds were produced in a fast speech. The great strategy was utilized to minimize phonological error that was to find what problems students have in pronunciation.

From this suggestion, teacher and student enhanced their capability by correcting the error and committing the correct. Because of pronunciation, it was related to habit in surrounding environment.