Abstract:
This study is aimed to investigate the effect of imitation technique assisted by
video on the students’ ability in pronouncing consonants sounds. This is an
experimental research design which applied the quantitative method in analyzing
the data. This researchwas conducted in SMP Muhammadiyah 47 Medan Krio
Sunggal of 2018/2019 academic year, by using total sampling technique, 50
students were chosen as the sample. The sample was divided into two groups; 25
students as experimental group and 25 students as control group. The
experimental group was given treatment by group imitation technique assisted by
video and control group using direct method. The instrument of the research is
pronouncing consonants sounds, which used pre-test and post-test. The result of
this research showed that tobserved>ttable or 1.7>1.67∝= 0.5 at df=50-2=48 students.
It means Ha is accepted, therefore there were significant the effect of imitation
technique assisted by video on the students’ ability in pronouncing consonants
sounds.
