THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SINGLE-SLOT SUSBTITUTION DRILL TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ PRONOUNCIATION

The title of this paper is “the effectiveness of single-slot substitution drill technique to improve student’s pronunciation” and this research was held at the first grade of MTs Al-Fithroh. The aims of the research are to know whether or not the single-slot substitution drill technique is effective to teach pronunciation at the first grade of junior high school and to know what the student’s responses toward learning pronunciation by using the single-slot substitution drill technique. The researcher applied an experimental design method in this research. This research chose 33 students as the sample for experimental group. The instrument that was used for the research were pre-test, post-test and questionnaire. And the data from pre-test and post-test were analyzed and computed. Based on the result, t = 32.08 is higher than the table critical value of t = 2.042, at the level significance of p = .05 with df (degree of freedom) = 32. And it is clear that t-observed is higher than t-table (32.08>2.042). Therefore, Ha is accepted, The mean of post-test is higher than that of the pre-test. This also means that single-slot substitution drill technique is effective to teach English pronunciation to the first grade of Mts Al-Fithroh. Based on the data of questionnaire, the student’s responses were positive to the single-slot substitution drill technique, most of students of MTs Al-Fithroh like being taught by using the single-slot substitution drill technique, and they stated that the single-slot substitution drill technique was interesting.Keywords : Pronunciation, Single-Slot Substitution Drill Techniqu