A STUDY OF MALANGAN JAVANESE ACCENTS TOWARDS STUDENTS’ ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION: STUDENTS AND TEACHERS' PERCEPTION

Abstract

Abstract: The way people pronounce English sometimes is influenced by how
they pronounce their mother tongue. Their English will sound accented and affect the phonological system of English. This study aimed to describe the influences of Malangan Javanese accent in students’ English-speaking skill in terms of pronunciation. The descriptive qualitative approach was used in this study. The population in this study is EFL students of 2018 academic year as well as the lecturers. The researcher interviewed some students and lecturers, then analyze the influence of Malangan Javanese accent toward their English-speaking pronunciation. The researcher conducted this research to analyzed the problem. To collect the data, this research used Triangulation data as the instrument which includes observation, interview, and documentation. The findings of this study indicated that environment was a contributing factor and it influenced the way how the students speak in English. It is because their natural culture, habit, and behaviour of a society. They live with friends, neighborhood, and family who speaks Malangan Javanese. The responses of the interview in this research shows that how the environment takes over the way a person speaks. In the previous research, it was in line with Senowarsito and Sukma (2019) stated that in <the> [ndǝ], and <then> [nden], the participants loved to add alveolar nasal /n/ to the initial voiced alveolar plosive consonant /d/. It was caused by the Javanese habitual of adding /n/ to 'demok' [ndǝ.mɔk] or 'delok' [ndǝ.lɔk]. The result of reading aloud of short story showed that students mispronounced consonants five vowel; / ð/, /d/, /b/, /dʒ/, /g/.

Keywords: Influence, Malangan Javanese accent, Pronounciation