An Analysis of The Students’ Ability in Pronouncing Closing Diphthong (A Study on the Students of International Class Program batch 2016 in IAIN Salatiga)

FIKRIYAH, AMALIYATUL (2019) An Analysis of The Students’ Ability in Pronouncing Closing Diphthong (A Study on the Students of International Class Program batch 2016 in IAIN Salatiga). Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Fikriyah, Amaliyatul. 2019. An Analysis of the Students’ Ability in Pronouncing Closing Diphthong (A Study on the Students of International Class Program batch 2016 in IAIN Salatiga). A Graduating Paper. English Education Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. State Institute for Islamic Studies Salatiga. Counselor: Noor Malihah, Ph. D. This research is intended to know the students’ ability of English Education Department of International Class Program FTIK IAIN Salatiga in pronouncing closing diphthong. The objectives of the research were to analyze the profile of students’ mastery in pronouncing closing diphthong and to describe the dominant closing diphthong mispronounced by students. The methodology of this research was a descriptive qualitative research. The researcher used the voice recording to collect the data. The data is transcribed using online Oxford American Dictionary. Respondents were asked to read some words which consist of closing diphthong. In this research, the researcher analyzed their ability in pronouncing English diphthongs by classifying their score based on the classification of the score levels. Based on the data analysis, the respondents’ ability in pronouncing closing diphthongs was excellent. The most difficult type of closing diphthong faced by the respondents’ was closing diphthongs /e?/. From the percentage of closing diphthong, the lowest percentation of the correctness closing diphthongs is 70%. Key words: student’s ability, pronunciation, closing diphthong

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