Improving students’ pronunciation ability through minimal pairs drill technique at grade VIII MTSN Sipirok

This research discussed about students’ problem in English pronunciation ability at grade VIII MTsN Sipirok. The problems of the research are the students’ has low ability in pronounce the English words, students’ score in speaking ability was low because their pronunciation was not good enough, and uninterested teaching strategy. As the result, the students were difficult in pronunciation ability. The purposes of this research was to know the improvement of students’ pronunciation ability through minimal pairs drill technique at grade VIII MTsN Sipirok, The method of this research was conducted by Classroom Action Research (CAR) with quantitative approach. Classroom Action Research method was used to test and to see the improvement of students’ pronunciation ability through minimal pairs drill technique at grade VIII in MTsN Sipirok. The resource of the data was taken in class VIII-2, there were 26 students of grade VIII MTsN Sipirok. Collecting the data was done BY instrument test for the students about minimal pair words. To analysis the data, the researcher used formulation of average score on students’ pronunciation. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that, the mean score of post-test 2 higher than post-test 1 (90.16 > 81.39) and the score of post-test 1 was bigger than pre-test (81.39 > 60.15). It means that the action was accepted. It was concluded that there was the improvement of students’ pronunciation ability through minimal pairs drill technique at grade VIII in MTsN Sipirok. Finally, the researcher suggested using minimal pairs drill technique was effective to improve the students’ pronunciation ability