The Interference of Indonesian Language Sound Systems in Pronouncing English Segmental Phonemes of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 54 East Jakarta in 2015/2016 Academic Year.

riahi, ahmed; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd.;

ROHIMAH RIZKA. NIM: 1201065218. The Interference of Indonesian Language Sound Systems in Pronouncing English Segmental Phonemes of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 54 East Jakarta in 2015/2016 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA Jakarta, August 2016.
The research was aimed at investigating the interferences that occurred in the speaking of English by the eleventh grade students of SMAN 54 East Jakarta. The research was focused on investigating English segmental phonemes which did not exist in Indonesian. The research was started on May10th 2016 and finished on May 13th 2016. The subject of the research was the eleventh grade students of SMAN 54 East Jakarta in 2015/2016 Academic Year. The participants consisted of 35 students. The research method was descriptive qualitative. The instrument of the research was the pronunciation test which consisted of 24 word pairs and 12 sentences.
The findings showed that language interferences existed in the pronunciation of segmental sounds in the utterances of the eleventh grade students of SMAN 54 Jakarta. The English segmental phonemes that was interfered by the Indonesian sounds were/i:/, /u:/, /eɪ/, /æ/, /oʊ/, /ð/, /θ/, /ʃ/, /v/, /k/, /ʒ/ and /z/.In this case, the English teachers of SMAN 54 East Jakarta must pay more attention to these phonemes, and give more practices to oral drills to reduce language interferences.