The Effect of Applying Phonics Instruction Method on the Students’ Pronunciation Achievement

This research was carried out to 1) find out the effect of applying phonics instruction method on the students’ pronunciation achievement, 2) find out the difficulties in students’ pronunciation by applying phonics instruction method. This research has been conducted at SMP PAB 8 Sampali MEDAN, at Jalan Pasar Hitam No. 69, Kecamatan Percut Seituan. The populations of this research were the seventh grade students’ of SMP PAB 8 Sampali MEDAN academic year 2016/2017. There were two classes in this school with total number 51 students and all off the students were taken as the sample. They were 26 students from class VII-A as experimental group which taught by applying phonics instruction method and 25 students from class VII-B as control group which taught by applying lecturing method. The instrument for collecting data in this research was oral test where students were asked to pronounce 20 English words. The score for correct answer 1. The score for incorrect answer was 0. The score was given by using formula P = X 100 . The result showed that tobserved was > ttable 2,86 > 2,02. It means that students which were taught by applying phonics instruction method were better than applying lecture method. Based on the finding above, it can be said the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and full hypothesis ( Ho) was rejected. In other word “there is a significant effect of applying phonics instruction method on the students’ pronunciation”. besides that, it was also found some difficulties that student got confused to make different between sound ɑ: and ɔ: