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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study discusses about some pronunciation mistakes that were found in
the speech of English Forum Announcers for RRI, Surabaya. This study
intends to answer the research problems, which are what kinds of
pronunciation mistakes that happen and from those kinds of pronunciation
mistakes, what consonants, vowels or diphthongs are often mispronounced.
The data were collected randomly two times and each time takes about thirty
minutes. This research is a descriptive research and calculation is used only
as supporting tool. In collecting the data, a tape recorder was used to record
the speech that were pronounced by the radio announcers. After that, the
writer transcribe the recorded speech into phonetic transcription Then, the
transcription was changed into the written text. This study used phonetic
transcription made by Peter Ladefoged in his book ?A Course in Phonetics?
as the main theory. Contrastive Analysis was also applied as one of the
underlying theories. Moreover, this study found out that the mistakes in
consonant are: /z/, /t/, /v/, /d/, /?/, /r/, //, //, //, /b/, //, /k/, //, /g/, //, /n/
and /s/ ; the mistakes in vowel are: //, /i/, /?/, //, //, //, /e/, //, //, /u/,
and / /; and the mistakes in diphthong are: /o /, /e/, /a /, / /, /ai/, //,
/u/. Those mistakes can be classified into sound substitution, sound
omission and sound addition. As the conclusion, this study suggests the
study of pronunciation for them who wants to speak English in a standard
way by practicing those sounds that become the problem in pronunciation in
the initial, middle, as well as in the final position.