An Analysis of Error Pronounciation Through Reading Engnlish the Second Grade at SMAN 5 Langsa (A Case Study in the Second Grade at SMAN 5 Langsa)

Pronunciation is the way of pronouncing word. Most of the students have difficulties in pronouncing English word, although they learn English subject at their schools however they have not fully mastered the English pronunciation. Therefore, the students often make errors. The objectives of the research are: (1) to find out kind of students’ error in pronouncing consonant (2) to find out the causes of students’ error in pronouncing consonant. This research was conducted under the consideration that pronunciation plays an important role. The population was the second grade students at SMAN 5 Langsa. The sample of this study was randomly selected. The students of class XI science 2 were chosen as the sample. The research used descriptive quantitative. The technique of collecting data that was used in this research is test and interview. Test was used to identify the kind of students’ error in pronouncing consonant. The result of the analysis shows that students did much error in kind of consonant /ʃ/ is 43.84%, consonant /tʃ/ is 17.53%, consonant /ð/ is 11.39%, consonant /θ/ is 20.92%, consonant /s/ is 0.87%, consonant /l/ is 1.74%. Interview was used to identify the causes of students’ error in pronouncing consonant. Based on the result of interview, it shows that the interference of mother tongue, the difference in phonological system, low motivation in learning English, seldom reading loudly caused students’ error in pronouncing English word. The suggestion of this study is students should practice more their pronunciation.