PRONUNCIATION ERRORS MADE BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS (A Case Study in English Department, Dian Nuswantoro University in the Academic Year of 2009/2010)

As the learner of the foreign language, we find difficulties in our speaking, either grammatical errors or pronunciation errors. Pronunciation errors contains of slip of the tongue and pronunciation problems. This study, entitled Pronunciation Errors by Fourth Semester Students, is aimed to investigate and to describe how pronunciation errors occur in Tourism examination in fourth semester students of English Department of Dian Nuswantoro University. The data of this study are transcribed video of Tourism examination which was analyzed as follows; presenting, identifying, describing and discussing, and concluding. The results of this study show that there are seven types of slips of the tongue which substitution as the dominant one. For the pronunciation problems, there are three types of pronunciation problems, and the dominant one is two languages with similar sounds which differ only slightly in their phonetic features. Key words: pronunciation problems, slips of the tongue, utteranc