KESALAHAN MELAFALKAN KOSA KATA BAHASA INDONESIA OLEH MAHASISWA THAILAND DI IAIN TULUNGAGUNG

Language as a mean of communication has a vital function in social life. Good pronunciation and intonation play important role in understanding the meaning of a language. This experienced by Thai students in IAIN Tulungagung who get difficulties in pronouncing some words. This study aims to investigate some words which Thai students hard to pronouns and some factors causes these difficulties. Sometimes, Thai students lack of self-confident in spelling and pronouncing Indonesia language since they feel guilty. This study is qualitatively approached. The data were collected using participative observation with listening and writing technique. Data analysis revealed that Thai students have difficulties in pronouncing 1) menyampaikan, 2) menggendong, 3) struktur, 4) mengambil, dan 5) terpendek. The pronunciation of Thai students causes phonemic changing, phonemic adding, and phonemic omitting. The factors cause the error are internal factor and external factor