THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE HABIT OF WATCHING ENGLISH NOVIES AND PRONUNCIATION MASTERY STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF SRIWIJAYA UNIVERSITY
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- Abstract: According to AMEP research center (2002), pronunciation refers to the production of sounds to convey meaning. It includes the production of segmental phonemes like consonants and vowels, and suprasegmental phonemes like intonation, stress, pitch, timing and rhythm. This article presents the result on a correlation study between students’ habit of watching English movies and pronunciation of students of English education study program Sriwijaya University. The habit of watching English movies is the predictor variable and students’ pronunciation mastery is the criterion variable. Random sampling technique was used in this study to get the sample. There were 222 students of second, fourth and sixth semester students of Palembang and Inderalaya campuses, 143 students were chosen randomly using Slovin Formula. The data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient on SPSS version 21. The result of this study showed the significant (2-tailed) value is 0.132. It was higher than 0.05 so it means that there was no significant correlation between the habit of watching English movies and students pronunciation mastery on vowel sounds. The null hypothesis (H0) is accepted and consequently, the research hypothesis (H1) is rejected. Briefly stated, there was no correlation between students’ pronunciation mastery and habit of watching English movies. Therefore, habit of watching English movies did not significantly influence students’ pronunciation mastery.