Lecturers’ Challenges and Strategies and Students’ Perception in Teaching English Pronunciation at Universitas PGRI Sumatera Barat

Fauzia, Mella (2024) Lecturers’ Challenges and Strategies and Students’ Perception in Teaching English Pronunciation at Universitas PGRI Sumatera Barat. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

This study aims to analyze the lecturers’ challenges and strategies, and students’ perception in teaching English pronunciation at Universitas PGRI Sumatera Barat. The participants of the study were two pronunciation subject lecturers and the third semester of English Department students of Universitas PGRI Sumatera Barat. This study is descriptive research. The source of data was taken from the result of interview and questionnaire. The lecturers’ challenges in teaching English pronunciation were seen from the internal and external challenges. The result of the study shows that the lecturers have internal challenges in terms of lack of confidence, lack of knowledge, and pedagogical issues. However, the lecturers do not face any external challenges. Meanwhile, the lecturer faces other challenge that comes from the students which dealing with the various students’ situations because they come from various backgrounds and ability. To face the challenges, the lecturers have the strategies to overcome it. The lecturers prepare themselves before starting the class. The lecturers look for the any resources such as textbook or looking for other sources on the internet. To overcome the challenge which coming from the students, the lecturer motivates and increases the awareness of the students to always learn and improve their pronunciation not only in the classroom but also outside of the class. The lecturer also uses strategy by dividing the students into small group during the learning process. Moreover, the students showed strongly positive perceptions on the lecturers’ teaching strategies. They stated that the strategies used by the lecturers in the classroom could help them in learning pronunciation courses. Thus, it can be concluded that the lecturers face internal challenges in teaching English pronunciation and the strategies used by lecturers in the classroom gave positive perception to the

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