AN ANALYSIS OF DENTAL FRICATIVE CONSONANT PRONOUNCED BY STUDENTS OF ELESP OF STKIP PGRI BANJARMASIN

Abstract

This study focused on the description of dental fricative consonants. The objectives of this research were to analyze the mispronunciation and to describe the possible factors causing the Banjar ethnicity students’ errors in pronouncing dental fricatives consonants. The data were collected by giving a test for 20 respondents and it was analyzed by using the descriptive qualitative method. They were taken from the fourth, sixth, and eighth-semester Students of English Language Education Study Program of STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin in the Academic Year of 2020/2021. The techniques of collecting the data are a test as documentation and interviews. The search reveals that the respondents made 6 deviations of all. The replacement of [θ] with [t], [ð] and [d], the replacement of [ð] with [θ], [t] and [d]. Several factors were causing in pronouncing dental fricative consonants; there was the nonexistence, influenced by the mother tongue, the unfamiliarity of students to say it in daily conversation, the inconsistency between the written words in English to the sounds, they did not know how to pronounce it, and the lack of practice. In addition, they did not have a good understanding of phonological awareness and it also contributed to complicating the respondents in pronouncing fricative consonants.