Common Pronunciation Errors Made by Students of English Language and Literature Department at Universitas Negeri Padang Padang

The purpose of this study was to find empirical evidence of student errors in pronouncing segmental features of English language students in the 5th semester Universitas Negeri Padang. This research is a qualitative descriptive research. The subjects of this study were students in education class, international class and literature class who were taking speaking classes at Universitas Negeri Padang. while the object of this research is students' errors in pronouncing segmental features of English Department. Then, to collect data, the researcher conducted interviews as an instrument to find errors. Interviews were conducted in the form of voice recordings byphone calling. Based on data analysis, there are four types of errors in pronunciation, namely omission, addition, substitution, and misordering. Of the four types of pronunciation errors, the researcher found that some of the most dominant types were the substitution type, where the total errors represented reached 67%, which is more than half of the total pronunciation errors