The ability of the Fifth Semester Students English Department Tarbiyah Faculty IAIN Padangsidimpuan in writing phonetic transcription of words
| Main Author: | Martini, Yuli |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
http://etd.iain-padangsidimpuan.ac.id/7164/1/1620300116.pdf http://etd.iain-padangsidimpuan.ac.id/7164/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This research talked about students‟ ability of the fifth semester of English Department Tarbiyah Faculty IAIN Padangsidimpuan in writing phonetic transcription of word. The problems in this research focused on the students need to transcribe based on the sound of the word by using the phonetic symbols. Students got difficulties in pronunciation, struggled in many similar sounds, and the students didn‟t recognize unfamiliar symbols. The purpose of this research was to know the ability at the fifth semester of English Department Tarbiyah Faculty IAIN Padangsidimpuan in writing phonetic transcription of word. To find how far they understand about the phonetic transcription of word, also to see their difficulties and find out the solutions from their difficulties in writing phonetic transcription of word. This research used descriptive quantitative followed by descriptive qualitative. Descriptive quantitative was used to explain the students‟ ability and descriptive qualitative was used to explain the students‟ difficulties and lecturers‟ efforts. The population of this research were 112 students of English Department Tarbiyah Faculty IAIN Padangsidimpuan. This research used simple random sampling to take the sample, the samples were randomized, so based on the calculations that have been done there were 20 samples obtained. Based on the result of the research, this study got the description of the data and found that the mean score was 61. It means that the ability of the fifth semester of English Departrment was categorized enough. Then, the students got difficulties in writing phonetic transcription of word, such like in consonant, vowel and diphthong. Where the students faced difficulties in recognizing unfamiliar symbols, they difficult when to use short and long symbols, also confused when the symbols were separate and merged. Finally, the efforts of lecturer to solve the students‟ difficulties were the lecturer gave the strong basic of the word sound, gave the theory to distinguish similar sounds and do a lot of writing excercises to get used to unfamiliar symbols.