IMPLEMENTATION OF READING POEM PRACTICE TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION

Abstract:Poetry is one of materials for teaching pronunciation to help the students topronounce the words better. The process of teaching pronunciation by using poetrytechnique is also helpful to improve the students’ pronunciation. For that reason, thisresearch is intended to (1) find out the improvement of students’ pronunciation afterbeing taught through poetry reading, and (2) find out the students’ problems inlearning pronunciation through poetry.This quantitative research is conducted at SMP N 8 Bandar Lampung. The subjectwas class II D which consisted of 30 students. The data were collected through: tryout tests, pretests and posttests. After getting the means of pretests and posttests theresearcher compared both means.The students’ scores on pronunciation shows the expected improvement. T1 is 55.66,T2 is 56.13, T3 is 57.46, T4 is 59.36. For example the increase of T3 result is 1.8 aftercomparing both result of T1 and T3.Keywords:Reading Poem Practice, Quantitative, and Pronunciation