AN ERROR ANALYSES OF THE GERMAN PRONUNCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI I OF MAJENE WEST SULAWESI

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to describe the types of errors, errors frequency, and causes of errors pronunciation that made by the students of class XI exact 4 in 2014-2015 academic year. The subjects were students of class XI exact 4 with 29 students. The Sampling in this study used random sampling. The data was collected by using test instruments and sounds reording. Test instrument consisted of two forms, questions to be answered and short sentences to be ead by the students. The data analysis technique used simak method and padan articulatory phonetic.The results showed that therewere still a lot of students had difficulty in pronouncing the phonemes of the German wether vowel phonemes, diphthongs, single consonant, or consonant cluster. The errors included of vowel phonemes [œ] [ø:] were done by 29 (100%), [y] [y:] by 29 (100%), [ɛ ] by 28 (96.55%), and [əә] by 25 (83%). Error consonant phonemes are: [v], [ts], [z], [Ʒ ] by 29 (100%), [t] Auslaut by 28 (96.6%) and [ɐ ] by 25 (86.20 %). consonant cluster [ʃ l], [ʃ r], [fn], [ct], [nt] were done by 29 (100%). Based on the analysis, the types and causes of the error can be grouped. the types of those errors were based on linguistic taxonomy, surface strategy taxonomy, comparative taxonomy, communicative effect taxonomy, individual errors, and group errors. The factors that caused errors happened were mother tongue (BI) interference, second language(B2) interference, the wrong input, and the different amount of phonemes among bahasa Mndar, bahasa Indonesia and German.

Keywords: Pronunciation, phoneme