THE INFLUENCE OF USING AUDIO VISUAL MEDIA TOWARDS STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY OF THE EIGHTH GRADE AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF SMPN 01 REBANG TANGKAS WAY KANAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2015/2016

In teaching and learning process in the class, there are a lot of students who find some difficulties in learning English. One of the difficulties that the students find in English learning activity is speaking, especially in learning about pronunciation. The students’ pronunciation mastery in SMPN 1 Rebang Tangkas Way Kanan was still low. The researcher applied audio visual media, and that was video of English pronunciation which could teach students how to pronounce ‘th’ with the sound of /ɵ/ and /ð/ well like English native. The objective of this research is to know whether there is a significant influence of using audio visual media towards students’ pronunciation mastery of the eighth grade at the second semester of SMPN 1 Rebang Tangkas Way Kanan in the academic year of 2015/2016. The research methodology used was quasi experimental design with the treatment held in 3 meetings in which 2 x 45 minutes for each class. In this research, the researcher took two classes, one class as the experimental class and one class as the control class. In the experimental class, the researcher used audio visual media and in the control class the teacher used visual media. The population of the research was the eighth grade at the second semester of SMPN 1 Rebang Tangkas Way Kanan in the academic year of 2015/2016. The sample of the research was two classes consisting of 62 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used instrument of speaking test. Before doing treatments, the researcher conducted pre-test. After conducting the treatments, the post-test was also done. The data of experimental and control class had normal distribution and they were homogenous. Furthermore, the t-test was used to analysis the data obtained in this reasearch. After giving the post-test, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test formula. From the data analysis, it was found that the result of t-test (t-observed) was 7.695 with t-critical 1.671. It means that the score of t-observed was higher than t-critical so Ho was refused. In other words, from this research, there is a significant influence of audio visual media towards students’ pronunciation mastery of the eighth grade at the second semester of SMPN 1 Rebang Tangkas Way Kanan in the academic year of 2015/2016