The interference of local language Pronunciations Produced by students of English Development Institution at Djalaluddin Ar-Rumi Dormitory, Paiton Probolinggo

ABSTRACT

The interference of pronunciation happens since some languages have relationship; one language can interfere another language with similar structure. It can be seen from the students’ conversations or communications, essentially the students who study foreign language, mainly English. The Phonetic changes are usually studied in the case of mutual influence of various languages upon each other. The learners of foreign language are normally aware that there is interference from their language English pronunciation production.

This research problems are principally formulated into two sections; (1) What kinds of phonetics interference produced by the students of English Development Institution at Djalaluddin Ar Rumi Dormitory? (2) How do the Madurese vowels, consonants and diphthongs interfere the students’ English pronunciations? To answer the problems, the researcher adopts some theoretical viewpoints on the field of the phonetics deviation, in the area of segmental sounds which consists of vowel, consonants, and diphthong. The researcher applies a qualitative descriptive study in his research design. The data are gathered by observing and listening the conversations comprehensively, then transcribing and converting into phonetic transcription.

The finding shows that the interferences in segmental features happened by changing one consonant sound to other consonant which has a close feature deal with state of the cord, place and manner of articulation, they are the changes of sound [v] to [f], sound [ð] to [d] or [t], sound of [θ] to [t], the sound of [t∫] to [c], and the sound of [ʃ] to [s]. Another deviation is vowel length, which is decreasing or omitting the length of vowel, such as [ɑː], [uː], [iː], and [ɔː]. Next deviation is deleting or elision in diphthong [eɪ], [əʊ], and [j]. The last is inserting some vowels, for instance [i] and [ə]. The students who are Madurese speaker cannot pronounce the standard of English Phonetics since there are several sounds do not exist in Madurese but exist in English. Those sounds are
consonant [ð], [ʧ], [θ], [ʃ], diphthong [eɪ], and [əʊ]. Otherwise, there are two identical Madurese sound not found in English, they are consonant [c], and pure vowel [o].

It is suggested for the next researchers to explore more on some uncovered discussions about segmental or suprasegmental interference such as missing aspiration, vowel change, lax and tense vowel etc. Additionally, it is expected to explore more on another language such as Javanese, Sundanese, or Balinese. Hence, it will enrich the data base of language interference.