IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION THROUGH PROSODY PYRAMID

Abstract

This research is aimed at proving whether the use of prosody pyramid is useful in teaching di pronunciatioan to the eleventh grade students of at SMP Negeri Madani Palu.The researcher used Quasi-Experimental research design. The research sample is the students in class VIII W.S Rendra as the experimental group which consist of 23 students and VIII Chairil Anwar as the control group which consists of 17 students. The sample was chosen by using purposive sampling because one of the recommendation of the teacher. The instrument of data collection is a test which is given to the research samples as pre-test and post-test. The result of the pre-test and post-test shows that there is an improvement in students mean score after receiving treatment. Where, the mean score of student’s pre-test is (39.87) becomes (64.16) on post-test. It means selisih score form pre-test is (39.32) and post-test is (43.36). This was proved by t-test value and t-table one. T-test value was higher than t-table value (for t-counted achieved 4.082, t-table is 2.026) It could be concluded that the research hypothesis is accepted. In other words, prosody Pyramid is useful in teaching pronunciation.

Keywords : Improving,Pronunciation, prosody pyramid.