Watching English Native Speakers' YouTube Channel to Improve the Students' Pronunciation Ability at Second Year of SMP Plus Miftahul Ulum Kalisat

Hasanah, Maufiratul (2022) Watching English Native Speakers' YouTube Channel to Improve the Students' Pronunciation Ability at Second Year of SMP Plus Miftahul Ulum Kalisat. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Maufiratul Hasanah, 2021: Watching English Native Speakers’ Youtube Channel to Improve the Students’ Pronunciation Ability at Second Year of SMP Plus Miftahul Ulum Kalisat.

Keywords: English Native Speakers’ YouTube, improve, pronunciation

This research was aimed to improve the students’ pronunciation ability. It was conducted due to the low students’ pronunciation ability in an English class. It was proved by the final score of pretest that is 35% which means that the students’ pronunciation ability is very poor and the result of interview the English teacher that the students could not pronounce accurately since they are rarely practice and even never learn from native speakers. Therefore, this research was aimed to help VIII D students of SMP Plus Miftahul Ulum Kalisat through watching English native speakers’ YouTube channel.
The focus of this research is: how can watching English native speakers’ YouTube channel improve the students’ pronunciation ability at second year of SMP Plus Miftahul Ulum Kalisat?. The research objective is to expose watching English native speakers’ YouTube channel can improve the students’ pronunciation ability at second year of SMP Plus Miftahul Ulum Kalisat.
The researcher applied Classroom Action Research to improve the students’ pronunciation ability. It needed two cycles (four meetings). There are planning, acting, observing and reflecting in the cycle. The criteria of success that was defined in the planning was the students achieves the minimum standard with students’ average score of oral tests equal to or greater than 70%.
The result of posttest in cycle one is 57,5%, it means that the students’ pronunciation ability is very poor. And the result of posttest in cycle two is 87% which means that the students’ pronunciation ability is very good. It shows that the students’ average score is increased and achieved the minimum standard with students’ average score of reading aloud test equal to or greater than 70%. It could be concluded that watching English native speakers’ YouTube channel is effective to improve the students’ pronunciation ability.

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