THE SPELLING ENGLISH SOUNDS FACED DIFFICULTY BY THE EIGHTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 2 RANTEPAO

Abstract

Daniel Paembonan. 2016. The Spelling English Sounds Faced Difficulty by the
Eighth Semester Students of SMP Negeri 2 Rantepao
The objective of the study is to find out the spelling difficulty faced by the eighth
semester students of SMP Negeri 2 Rantepao.
In order to achieve the objective of this study, the writer designed this experiment
by descriptive method using written test and questionnaire. The tests were used to
find out the spelling difficulty faced by the eighth semester students of SMP
Negeri 2 Rantepao.
The result of the research showed that the students were difficult to spell English
(vowel and consonant) sound, but they were more difficult to spell the vowel than
consonant sound. It was proved by the of mean score in vowel sound 2, 77
(categorized as very poor) and 4, 54 in consonant sound (categorized as poor).
And it was caused the students were difficult to differentiating the English sound,
(special for the same sound [?, ð]), students were lazy to learn the English
phonetic, less self confidence to pronounce the English sound, less comprehend
the material, and less book in the library and the lecturer’s method didn’t
available with the material.Basedon the data analisys found out that the spelling difficulty faced by the eighth
semester students of SMP Nigeria 2 Rantepao are commonly consonants sound