THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPOKEN NARRATIVE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION ABILITY OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MAN PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

Abstract

Language is used to communicate and express our feeling with others. Moreover, one of languages which we learn is English. The researcher thinks that the most difficult skill to learn English is speaking. It requires chance, time, experience, practice and certain skill, so that speaking cannot be learnt in isolation. It is supported by some components of language and one of them is pronunciation.The researcher used spoken narrative as a media to teach pronunciation. The students must have confident to speak English, expecially how to pronounce words fluently. By using spoken narrative, the students can learn interestingly. The aim of this research is to know whether spoken narrative is effective or not to improve students’ pronunciation ability for the eleventh grade students of MAN Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. In this research, the researcher took 60 students. The researcher conducted pre-test and post-test. The researcher use spoken narrative as a media to teach pronunciation. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test. The result of this research shows that spoken narrative is effective to improve students’ pronunciation ability for the eleventh grade students at MAN Purworejo in Academic year 2013/2014, since it was found that the result of tvalue is 4.93 based on 0.05 significance level , the value of t-table is 2.000, the computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table that is 4.93>2.000.