Improving Word Pronunciation Using The Tongue Twister Technique In Seventh Grade Student Of MTS Walisongo

Zulfiyatun Ni’mah, Fitri Nurdiyaningsih, Refi Ranto Rozak

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abstract-This article manages further developing understudies' articulation utilizing the Tongue Twister technique. Pronunciation is vital in English talking exercises since it can extraordinarily influence the importance of discourse. Truth be told, there are numerous Indonesian understudies who experience issues understanding English articulation on the grounds that the word they hear or say are frequently unique in relation to their composed structure. The researcher uses Tongue Twister to help students improve their pronunciation in order to solve this issue. By utilizing this procedure, it is normal to make understudies more enthusiastic and simpler to dominate English articulation. The study is a two-cycle classroom action research project. Students in the seventh grade at MTs Walisongo Sugihwaras during the 2023–2024 school year participated in this study. Interviews with English teachers, interviews with students, observations, tests, and documentation provided the data. The consequences of the review showed that an expansion in students' pronunciation after was being shown utilizing the tongue twister procedure. This is proven by the understudies' scores which expanded in each cycle, in the pre-cycle the typical understudy score was 57,85 and in the las cycle, specifically cycle 2, the normal understudy score was 77,57. It very well may be reason that Tongue twister can work on understudies' articulation.
Keyword : Pronunciation, Tongue Twister Technique



abstrak- Artikel ini membahas tentang peningkatan kemampuan pronunciation siswa dengan menggunakan teknik Tongue Twister. Pronunciation sangat penting dalam berkomunikasi Bahasa Inggris karena dapat berpengaruh pada makna dan ucapan. Faktanya, kebanyakan siswa mengalami kesulitan saat mengucapkan kata dalam bahasa inggris. Karena kata kata yang mereka dengar atau ucapkan seringkali berbeda jauh dengan tulisan. Untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut, peneliti menggunakan Tongue Twister sebagai teknik untuk mempelajari pengucapan siswa. Dengan menggunakan teknik tongue twister peneliti berharap bisa membuat siswa bersemangat dan mudah mengucapkan pengucapan bahasa inggris. Peneliti menggunakan penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) yang dilakukan dengan dua siklus, siklus pertama dan siklus kedua. Partisipan dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VII MTs Walisongo Sugihwaras tahun ajaran 2023/2024. Perolehan data didapatkan melalui wawancara dengan guru bahasa inggris, wawancara dengan siswa, obervasi, tes dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan terdapat peningkatan perngucapan siswa lebih bagus dan mengalami peningkatan setelah dijarkan menggunakan teknik tongue twister pada setiap siklusnya. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan nilai siswa yang mengalami peningkatan pada setiap siklusnya, pada pra siklus nilai rata-rata siswa sebesar 57,85 dan pada siklus terakhir yaitu siklus 2 nilai rata-rata siswa sebesar 77,57. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa Tongue Twister dapat meningkatkan pelafalan siswa.
Kata Kunci— Pengucapan, Teknik Tongue Twister

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Pronunciation, Tongue Twister Technique

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