A Descriptive Study on the Interference of Banjar Kuala Banjarese Towards English in Pronouncing English Vowels and Consonants of the English Language Education Study Program Students

Abstract

This research aims as a study conducted in order to describe the interference of Banjar Kuala Banjarese towards English in Pronouncing English Vowels and Consonants of the English Language Education Study Program Students of FKIP ULM Batch 2017. The findings of the research being acquired are as follows: Banjar Kuala Banjarese, as the research subjects’ mother tongue; does interfere with English in the process of learning and developing pronunciation ability upon the target language. During the work of data collecting, the research subjects seem to replace the English sounds which they are not fully aware of the correct way to pronounce them, with the similar sounds in their mother tongue. The given sounds in Banjar Kuala Banjarese are the overgeneralizations in place of the sounds that are considered as troublesome in English such: /e/ as in /æ/, /k/ or /c/ as in /tʃ/, /j/ as in /dʒ/, /t/ as in /θ/, and /d/ as in /ð/. In consequence, the students might face difficulty in trying to attempt the correct pronunciation as the English sounds being tested do not exist in their mother tongue, thus the interference takes place. The absence of interference from mother tongue during the process of deriving the target language is crucial. It is highly recommended that the students are taking into consideration to revisiting the pronunciation practice they once had in Intensive English course and Phonology course as they still have problems to correctly pronounce the sounds /æ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /θ/ and /ð/ which may hinder their fluency in mastering the target language. Whereas this research is expected to become beneficial, therefore the writer is positive that, as they take the given suggestion; the students’ proficiency may gradually improve over time for the better.