Abstract:
Language becomes not only a sort of communication tool, but also as a
means of reflection to the user of the language. It has varieties of pattern and is
used both spoken and written. The language to learn, sometimes, brings a lot of
effect intentionally and not. Boarding school’s students as the most number of
people in Indonesia has it is own characteristics in it is language. One of the
characteristics held by the people of Boaeding school’s students is in the Arabic
pronunciation.
This thesis used the qualitative research mainly discusses about the
Arabic effect of Boarding school’s student in pronouncing English word,
especially students of the first year students of SMP Takhasus Nuril Anwar
Loano Purworejo in academic year of 2012 / 2013, in terms of pronounce
English word for the possibility that Arabic pronunciation and English
pronunciation have similarities. It will help students to pronounce English word
well.
By conducting this research, the researcher finds there are many sounds
have similarities between English and Arabic, such as first, vowel, there are nine
vowels have similarities between English and Arabic, they are [ i: ], [ I ], [ U ], [
u: ], [ ӕ ], [ ᴐ: ], [ ᴧ ], [ ɑ: ], [ ɒ ]. Second, consonant, there are nineteen
consonants have similarities between English and Arabic, they are [ b ], [ t ], [d
], [ k ], [ʤ ], [ f ], [ θ ], [ δ ], [ s ], [ z ], [ ʃ ], [ h ], [ m ], [ n ], [ ŋ ], [ l ], [ r ], [ j ],
and [ w ]. Third, diphthong, there are three diphthongs have similarities between
English and Arabic, they are [ ɒi ], [ ai ], and [ au ]. Arabic pronunciation have
few influence in pronouncing English word. And the students master Arabic
sound have good English pronunciation, but it is just in this case.
