https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/jwacana/issue/feed 2025-10-20T17:01:21+00:00 Dr. Bustanuddin Lubis bustanuddinlubis@unib.ac.id Open Journal Systems <p>It is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal on Indonesian language and literary studies worldwide. The journal is managed by the Department of Languages and Arts, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Bengkulu, Indonesia. Editors welcome scholars, researchers and practitioners of Indonesian language and literature worldwide to submit scholarly articles to be published through this journal. All articles will be reviewed by experts before being accepted for publication. Each author is solely responsible for the content of published articles. This journal encompasses original research articles, review articles, and short communications, including but not limited to <em><strong>Indonesian language and linguistics, foreign languages, language teaching, language education, Indonesian literature, teaching literature, and Indonesian cultures</strong></em>.</p> https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/jwacana/article/view/29512 2023-08-09T03:04:14+00:00 Tia Annida tiaannida70@gmail.com Mei Hardiah meihardiah@unib.ac.id Ira Maisarah iramaisarah@unib.ac.id

<p>The aims of this study are to find out students’ knowledge and pronunciation about homophone by students of eighth semester of English education study program at Bengkulu University. It employs qualitative research methods to collect data, including knowledge test and pronunciation test by using Praat and Live transcribe application. The result of this research revealed that in the knowledge test there are 36.5% students are in the excellent category and 32% students in the good category. Furthermore, 14.9% in the enough category, 16.2% students in the category of poor and 1.4% students in the category of very poor. While, in the pronunciation test there are 2 students in the good pronunciation, 2 students in the close to good pronunciation, and 6 students in the not good pronunciation. Moreover, there were 2 vowel, 2 consonant, and 3 diphthongs that the most students’ difficulty in pronouncing homophone, the phoneme are vowel /ɔ/, and /u/; consonant /t/, /d/, diphthong /ʊɚ/, /əʊ/ and /eɪ/. Based on the findings, the researcher found that students of eighth semester of English education study program still not good enough in mastering homophone.</p>

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