Learning Strategies to improve students pronunciation

Abstract

Abstract:This study on Pronunciation Learning Strategies (PLS) to improve pronunciation has the purpose of improving pronunciation in the target language. The participants in the study were high school students whose ages were about 14 to 15 years old, they have been in contact with the language for about 8 to 9 years. The research questions are What aspects of pronunciation can be improved by the application of PLS? and which PLS are wellaccepted by the participants? The study was a mixed research, a questionnaire, and a pre and post-test to compare and record the improvement in students' pronunciation were used. The results from the pre and post-test showed that PLS helped improve fluency, intonation, and accuracy student s level; from the second instrument which was a questionnaire, the information gathered shows that students prefer practicing English pronunciation by using the strategy of finding out a target language pronunciation. From the research, it is concluded that the use of Pronunciation Learning Strategies improves fluency in participants and that they prefer to use activities like songs, tongue twisters, and dialogues during class time.