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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.
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analysis of knowledge
homophone
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Bachman, L.F. (1990). Fundamental considerations in language testing. Oxford : Oxford University PressBurns, A. & Claire, S. (2003). Clearly Speaking. Sydney: AMEP Research Centre University of Macquarie
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Gimson, A.C. (1970). An Introduction to the pronunciation of English. London: ELBS
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Irawan,Y.(2017). Fonetik akustik [Acoustic phonetics].Bandung: Angkasa
Jones, Daniel (1978). An Outline of English Phonetic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kenworthy, J. (1987). Teaching English pronunciation. New York: Longman
Khamkhien, Attapol (2010). Thai Learners’ English Pronunciation Competence: Lesson Learned from Word Stress Assignment. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 1(6)
Maulina, D.Y., & Wennyta (2021). Errors Analysis of Students’ Pronunciation in Pronouncing English Vowels and Consonants at Second Semester Class A2 of Batanghari University. Jelt : Journal Of English Language teaching, Vol 5 No.1
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Sayekti, R.A.S., Hardiah M., & Lubis, A. (2021). Pronouncing Inert Letters: What can we learn from undergraduate EFL students.Asian Tesol Journal,1(1).
Syafryadin (2013:2). Improving Grade X Students Speaking Achievement Under Round Robin Technique. Journal International On Education
Toci, Arta (2020). Problems with Pronunciation Among Students of English Language and Literature-SEEU. South East European University, 10.2478
Yates, L., & Zielinski, B. (2009). Give it a go: Teaching pronunciation to adults. Australia: AMEP Research.
Yule, George. 2006. The Study of Language. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bachman, L.F. (1990). Fundamental considerations in language testing. Oxford : Oxford University PressBurns, A. & Claire, S. (2003). Clearly Speaking. Sydney: AMEP Research Centre University of Macquarie
Creswell, John W. (2012). Educational research: planning, conducting, evaluating, quantitative and qualitative research (Fourth Edition). United State of America: Pearson Education Inc.
Crystal, D. (1987) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University
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Gilakjani, A. P. (2016). English Pronunciation Instruction. International Journal of Research in English Education, 1-6.
Gimson, A.C. (1970). An Introduction to the pronunciation of English. London: ELBS
Hidayati, Alifah (2018). Pronunciation Errors In Speaking Performance Of Grade 11 Students At Sma Negeri 20 Medan. Thesis. English Educational Program, State University of Medan
Irawan,Y.(2017). Fonetik akustik [Acoustic phonetics].Bandung: Angkasa
Jones, Daniel (1978). An Outline of English Phonetic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kenworthy, J. (1987). Teaching English pronunciation. New York: Longman
Khamkhien, Attapol (2010). Thai Learners’ English Pronunciation Competence: Lesson Learned from Word Stress Assignment. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 1(6)
Maulina, D.Y., & Wennyta (2021). Errors Analysis of Students’ Pronunciation in Pronouncing English Vowels and Consonants at Second Semester Class A2 of Batanghari University. Jelt : Journal Of English Language teaching, Vol 5 No.1
Peter Roach, (2002). A Little Encyclopaedia of Phonetics: University of Reading, UK
Sabaruddin S., Sufiyandi, Fadhli M., Amri Z,. Sound stress patterns of nouns ending in -ion produced by English education student. Joall. Journall of Applied Linguistics and Literature.
Sayekti, R.A.S., Hardiah M., & Lubis, A. (2021). Pronouncing Inert Letters: What can we learn from undergraduate EFL students.Asian Tesol Journal,1(1).
Syafryadin (2013:2). Improving Grade X Students Speaking Achievement Under Round Robin Technique. Journal International On Education
Toci, Arta (2020). Problems with Pronunciation Among Students of English Language and Literature-SEEU. South East European University, 10.2478
Yates, L., & Zielinski, B. (2009). Give it a go: Teaching pronunciation to adults. Australia: AMEP Research.
Yule, George. 2006. The Study of Language. New York: Cambridge University Press.