https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/jwacana <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> en-US <p>Authors who publish in this journal agree with the following terms:</p> <ol type="a"> <li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li> <li>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.</li> </ol> bustanuddinlubis@unib.ac.id (Dr. Bustanuddin Lubis) azharlubis@unib.ac.id (Azhar Aziz Lubis) Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:01:21 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/jwacana/article/view/29512 <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> Tia Annida, Mei Hardiah, Ira Maisarah Copyright (c) 2025 Tia Annida, Mei Hardiah, Ira Maisarah https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/jwacana/article/view/29512 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000