Abstract:
The research was carried out to 1) find out the effect of applying eclectic method
assisted by video tutorial on the students’ pronunciation achievement, 2) find out
the difficulties on students’ pronunciation by applying eclectic method. This
research has been conducted at SMA GAJAH MADA MEDAN, at Jalan HM Said
No. 69, Kecamatan Medan Timur. The populations of this research were tenth
grade students’ of SMA GAJAH MADA MEDAN academic year 2017/2018.
There was two classes in this school with total number 49 students and all of the
students were taken as the sample. They were 25 students from X-IPA as
experimental group which taught by eclectic method and 24 students from class
X-IPS as control group taught by direct method. The instrument of collecting the
data in this research was oral test where students were asked to pronounce 20
words English. The result showed that tobserved was > ttable 3,74 > 2, 01 at level of
significant 0,05 and degree of freedom (df) is 47. It means that students were
taught by applying eclectic method is higher than applying direct method. Based
on the finding above, it can be said the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted
and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. In other word “ there is a significant effect
of applying eclectic method assisted by video tutorial o the students’
pronunciation”. Besides that, it was also found some difficulties that students got
confused to make different between sound à:and :.
