HIJANETICS: THE COMBINATION OF HIJAIYAH SOUNDS AND ENGLISH PHONETICS IN FOSTERING STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION

Abstract

Pronunciation comes up as part of speaking. Thus, to achieve communicative goals, individuals entail producing clear and understandable utterances. In the context of English teaching and learning, most of the students encounter problems with English pronunciation, especially English considered as a Foreign Language in Indonesia. To make learning easier for students, the researcher devised the English sounds learning by combining hijaiyah (Arabic alphabet) sounds that are close to students' background with English phonetics. The aim of the study is identifying the effect of several hijaiyah sounds in the way of pronouncing English words by Indonesian students. The participants in this study were 6 students of MA Almaarif Singosari Malang. The data of this descriptive quantitative research were collected through pre-experimental designs. Students read an English short story which consists of both English and hijaiyah sounds.  Subsequently, the data were noted and transcribed to decide whether the English phonemes were correctly pronounced. The result shows that the hijaiyah sounds facilitated Indonesian students pronouncing English words appropriately with the approximate students got 80% for some targeted sounds.