Students’ ability in pronunciation at state junior high school 8 Padangsidimpuan

This research is aboutthestudents’ ability in pronunciation. The formulation of the problem was talking about the: students’ ability in mastering pronunciation at State JuniorHigh School 8 Padangsidimpuan,the difficulties that usually faced by the grade VII in State Junior High School 8 Padangsidimpuan. This researchintended to describethe students’ ability in pronunciation at State Junior High School 8 Padangsidimpuan, to know the difficulties that usually faced by the grade VII students’of State Junior High School 8 Padangsidimpuan in mastering pronunciation.The kind of this research wasquantitative research by using descriptive method. The population of this research was all of Grade VII of students in State Junior High School 8 Padangsidimpuan, the total of population was 320 students. Then, the sample of research was 32 students. Next, this research used test as instrument. Test about the students’ abilityin pronounce English consonants. To analysis the data, the researcher used formulation mean score.Based on the result of research, researcher foundthat the students’ ability in pronunciation at grade VIIin State Junior High School 8Padangsidimpuanwas categorized enoughscore. In this occasion, mean score of pronunciation ability =64.68%. The difficulties of grade VII students of State Junior High School 8 Padangsidimpuan in mastering pronunciation are: The students weakness of ability in pronounce:, , , , , ŋ, y, w. And the students strengths in pronounce: p, b, f. v, t, d, m, n, z, s, , k, g, h, l, r