An Error Analysis of English Plosive and Fricative Consonants at Vocational High Schools

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to analyze plosive and fricative consonants pronunciation errors in recordings that made by students in vocational high school in Jakarta. The research method that used to analyze plosive and fricative consonants pronunciation errors in recordings that made by the students is descriptive qualitative method and based only on a few sound recordings. After the researcher analyzes the recordings, the researcher then found that the students still make the errors in pronouncing the words containing plosive and fricative consonants. The students' most pronunciation errors occur on pronouncing some of the consonants. The students do most errors of pronouncing consonants because they are not familiar on how they should be pronounced, and also the cause of students' pronunciation errors is the different sound between English and Indonesian. Most of students make errors in plosive consonants for about 36% in total and for the errors 64% in fricative consonants.