Students’ Error In Pronouncing The Words Containing Silent Letters

Abstract

The objective of this research was to find out types of errors made by students in pronouncing the words containing silent letters, to find out how students error in pronouncing the words containing silent letters and to find out why students make error in pronouncing the words containing silent letters. The subject of this research are second grade students and total number of students are 40 students. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative method. According to data analysis, the students made two types of error. There was pre-systematic error and systematic error. Students made 220 pronunciation error in pre-systematic with percentage 71,89% and students made 86 pronunciation error in systematic with percentage 28,10%.