AN ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFICULTIES IN PRONUNCIATION OF -RL -RN -RD ENDING WORDS FACED BY GRADES 5 AND 6 STUDENTS OF SDN WONOREJO 2

Pronunciation is essential for delivering a speech to avoid miscommunication. The study attempts to achieve the objective stated in the issue statement is to describe the way how the students of grades five and six of SDN WONOREJO 2 pronounce the words that consist of -rl, -rn, -rd endings. This study aims to describe the student's difficulties in pronouncing the -rn. -rl, -rd ending and observed the students of grades 5 and 6 at SDN WONOREJO 2 based on the pronunciation through the consonant. This thesis's research subject is the grades five and six students in WONOREJO 2 Elementary School. Grade five has nine students, while grade six has nine students. This study employs mixed methods which are descriptive quantitative and descriptive qualitative research methodologies to analyze data obtained from respondents' observations and interviews. Based on the findings and discussion in the previous chapter out of eighteen students three students are considered as D in the percentage with the ranges of 40%-54,9% with 46%-58%. Five teen students are considered as E in the percentage with the ranges of <40% with 4%-37% and 100% of the eighteen students have difficulties pronouncing the word burn /bɜːn/. The researcher concludes that most of the students in grades five and six at SDN WONOREJO 2 have difficulties in pronunciation especially in twenty-four -rn, -rl, -rd ending words as follows, learn, earn, corn, saturn, burn, return, modern, western, born, turn, girl, earl, pearl, curl, blackboard, cupboard, record, forward, third, word, hard, bird, heard and reward. The researcher found that the difficulties the students have in grades 5 and 6 at SDN WONOREJO 2 are usually influenced by the mother tongue, age, and classroom environments.