Error Analysis of Students’ Pronunciation in Story Telling “The Ugly Duckling” (Study Case: Second Semester of English Education of Potensi Utama University)

Abstract

The aimed of this research is to know the types of error analysis of students’ pronunciation in storytelling “The Ugly Duckling” (Study Case: Second Semester of English Education of Potensi Utama University). This research used the qualitative research design. The sample of this research is the second semester students which consisted of 19 students. Error analysis is carried out based on 3 types of errors namely: pre-systematic error, systematic error, and post-systematic error. The differences between the three lies in the cause of the error. Types of students’ error in pronouncing the story telling “The Ugly Duckling” were pre-systematic error of 39%, systematic error of 36%, and post-systematic error of 25.5%. From this data, it can be said that pre-systematic error was the higher than two others that made by students. Which is the pre-systematic error is made in a language that the students have never encountered. The causes of pronunciation error are student ignorance about the way of pronouncing some words which rarely or even never they heard. The other reason is because students do not consistent when pronounce the words that appear a few times, and do not focus when pronouncing word that almost similar to the other word.