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STUDY ON CONTEXTUAL MEANING USING BALABOLKA TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION AT ?LEARNING CENTER? ENGLISH COURSE
ABSTRACT
Indra Yana, 2018 : Study On Contextual Meaning Using Balabolka To Improve Pronunciation At The ?Learning Center ? English Course.
The Advisor : P1:Prof. Dr. Agus Wardono, M.Pd
P2: Andria Rosy, S.a,P,a, M.Pd
Key word : Contextual meaning, Pronunciation, Balabolka,improvement.
The objective of this study is to describe how Balabolka can influence students? achievement in pronouncing English words. In constructing this study, the writer collected data from the classroom action research, which was carried out through two cycles. The activities were begun from selecting focus, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting the data, taking action and find out the students? reflection. The subjects of this study were 16 students at Learning Center Course. In doing this study, the writer used an oral test method. The action was done through teaching learning process. All of the teaching learning process was presented by the help of Balabolka. Those visual were implemented in teaching reading to improve students pronunciacion ability.
The data analysis of this study was qualitative. Based on the data analysis from each activity, it can be seen that there is a significant difference of the students? achievement in the pretest and posttest. The students? achievement in the posttest is higher than that of the pretest.
After the treatment by using songs in each cycle, the students? achievement in reading English words improved. This improvement is caused by the students? interest of the audio media given and the relevance between vocabularies that are presented in the words used in this action research and the vocabulary that the students have already got, but they still get difficulties in reading some of words.
Based on this study, it is found that the use Balabolka in teaching English is effective to improve the students? students pronunciation ability and very beneficial for the students in order to facilitate them in learning English. Based on this finding, it is suggested that application (Balabolka) in teaching English can be recommended for the English teachers. To get a wider generalization, research of similar kind should be done with different subjects.
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