Improving Students’ Pronunciation Through Shadowing Method At 11th Grade Students Of SMK Mafatihul Ma’arif Bekasi
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https://doi.org/10.51805/ijss.v2i2.578Keywords:
Pronunciation, Shadowing Method, Classroom Action Research, EFL Students, Vocational High SchoolAbstract
This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of the Shadowing Method in improving the English pronunciation of 11th grade students at SMK Mafatihul Ma'arif Bekasi. The students experienced difficulties in producing correct English pronunciation, particularly in terms of segmental accuracy, word stress, intonation, rhythm and fluency, and intelligibility, which affected their oral communication ability. Therefore, this research was conducted to improve students' pronunciation ability through the implementation of the Shadowing Method. This research employed Classroom Action Research (CAR) using the Kemmis and McTaggart (1988) model, which consists of four stages: Planning, Acting, Observing, and Reflecting. The research involved 32 eleventh-grade students and was conducted in two cycles. In each cycle, the Shadowing Method was implemented by having students listen to authentic native-speaker audio materials and immediately repeat what they heard while imitating the speaker's pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation. Data were collected through oral pronunciation tests (pre-test and post-test), observation sheets, field notes, and documentation. The oral pronunciation test assessed five aspects of pronunciation, namely Segmental Accuracy, Word Stress, Intonation, Rhythm & Fluency, and Intelligibility. The findings revealed a significant improvement in students' pronunciation achievement. The mean score increased from 61.8 in the pre-test to 72.8 in Post-Test Cycle I and reached 81.4 in Post-Test Cycle II. Likewise, the percentage of students achieving the Minimum Mastery Criterion (KKM) increased from 15.63% in the pre-test to 53.13% in Cycle I and 84.38% in Cycle II. These findings indicate that the Shadowing Method effectively improved students' pronunciation ability. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Shadowing Method is an effective instructional strategy for improving English pronunciation among vocational high school students and can be recommended as an alternative teaching method to enhance students' pronunciation skills and confidence in spoken English.
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