ESCALATION OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN PRONOUNCING WORD STRESS BY USING AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD AT THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM TARBIYAH DEPARTMENT STAIN PALOPO (Classroom Action Research)

ABSTRACT Name : Ulfa Ichwan Yunus Reg.Num : 09.16.3.0053 Title : Escalation of Students’ Ability In Pronouncing Word Stress by Using Audio-Lingual Method at The Third Year Students of English Study Program Tarbiyah Department STAIN Palopo. The problem statement of this thesis: “What is the effective way to escalate students’ ability in pronouncing word stress by using Audio Lingual method at the third year students of English Study Program Tarbiyah Department STAIN Palopo?”. This research was focused on the third year students of English Department of STAIN Palopo. This research used the classroom action research (CAR) method. The instruments of this research were word list reading task, interview guide, observation list, discussion between the researcher and observer, speaker, headphone, laptop, camera and recorder as the instrument in collecting data. Based on the description above, the researcher answer the objective of the research is to find out the appropriate way in teaching pronounciation through audio�lingual method at the third year students of English Department of STAIN Palopo and the appropriate way in teaching word-stress by using audio-lingual method is the teacher should give more practices to the students such as, after the teacher says the words or after the students listened the audio through speaker/ using headphone, it is better if the teacher drill the words, ask the students to imitate how to pronounce the words, to make all of the students could pronounce the words correctly