PRONOUNCIATION ERRORS IN ENGLISH SILENT LETTERS OF THE FIFTH SEMESTER STUDENTS’ AT UKI TORAJA

Abstract

Based on the explanation above the problem statement in this research is: “What are the types of pronounciation errors made by the students’ of English in pronouncing English silent letter?”. The purpose of this study was to find out the types of pronunciation errors in English silent letters in fifth semester students at UKI Toraja. In analyzing the research data, researchers used a quantitative description method. In this research, in this research used sample random samplinThe research  take 40% of 62 students, so the sample in this research  be 25 fifth semester students of English Education Study Program in year academic 2022/2023. The subjects of this study were 5th semester students of the English Education Study Program, FKIP UKI Toraja. The research data was collected using a test in the form of sentences containing silent letters, According to the researcher's analysis, students are given sentences and then determine which are included in the pre-systematic and systematic errors. From the results, the most pre-systematic errors occur in words from letters in English. From the data, it was found that there were 115 pre-systematic errors and 110 systematic errors. The types of systematic errors that occurred to students and the highest type of errors made by students were pre-systematic error.