PHONOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH LOANWORDS FACED BY THE FIRST SEMESTER STUDENTS OF PBI UAD

Putri Puspita Ayu Pratiwi, Surono Surono

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  The pronunciation ability is much supported by the knowledge of phonology. In addition, English familiar words do not guarantee that they are easy to learn to pronounce. Therefore, the phonological problems require further identification to get solutions. This study is intended to explore the phonological problems, the phonological changes, and the linguistic and nonlinguistic influencing factors in pronouncing English loanwords. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. 30 first semester students of PBI UAD were recruited as research participants. In collecting the data, 60 loanwords were tested to be pronounced, then video recorded and observed. Articulator y identity method was used in analyzing the data. The research findings revealed that in pronouncing English loanwords contextually, the first semester students of PBI UAD deviated 11 out of 12 English vowels, 14 out of 24 English consonants, and all English diphthongs. Then, two types of sound changes occurred, namely deletion and vowel reduction. Meanwhile, linguistically, the influencing factors were the different elements in sound system between the Indonesian and English language, and the similar sounds in the two languages which had different variants or allophones. Non-linguistically, the factor was the bad habit in pronouncing the Indonesian loaned English words. This study only recruited 30 English Education Department students of UAD and used 60 loanwords. It is recommended that the future researchers recruited more samples of the students and used more loanwords in order that more real problems can be reflected. Additionally, the students have to change the habit in their daily life when pronouncing Indonesian words loaned from English and the teachers should often train the students’ pronunciation of English loanwords more carefully.

Keywords: English loanwords, phonological problem, sound changes.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12928/iucee2022.v1i1,%20March.8831

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