The Effect Of Imitation Technique Assisted By Video On The Students’ Ability In Pronouncing Consonants Sounds

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.