Improving english pronunciation through drill method at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

This research focused about Improving English Pronunciation through Drill Method at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of the research are the student was low in pronouncing English words, and students had lack of motivation in learning pronunciation, and also students did not know have good method in pronunciation. Not only that, the students’ was low in intonation. As the result, the students were difficult in English pronunciation. The purposes of the research was to know the improvement of English pronunciation through drill method at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The research was conducted by Classroom Action Research (CAR), it is to test and to see the improvement of English pronunciation through drill method at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The resource of the data was taken in class VIII-8, there were 23 students of grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. To collect the data, the researcher used instrument test for the students. To analysis the data, the researcher used formulation of average score on students’ pronunciation. Based on the result of research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that the mean score of cycle 2 higher than cycle 1 (x =80.21 > 69.34) and the score of cycle 1 was bigger than pre-test (x = 69.34 > 61.08). it means that the action was accepted. It was concluded that there was the improvement of English Pronunciation through Drill Method at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan