Theoretical Foundation
A. Pronunciation is Oral Communication
The students want and need to learn English pronunciation as well as to speak clearly. Before the students study English pronunciation, the teacher should teach sound of English, letter, stress, and intonation. The sound of English will relate to pronunciation. By definition, the learn pronunciation refers to the act of putting articulated sound together in proper combination with proper stress to correctly from word. Many studies have made to persuade the students because most of us spend a considerable life engaged in oral communication especially pronunciation.
Certainly, we can’t teach pronunciation without practicing skill oral topic in the class; we can practice it through a song, dialog, interview, and reading comprehension. All topics above are related to speaking especially pronunciation. The writer has trying to make students easy to learn pronunciation through a song. Language communicative purposes mean more than just using language correctly. It is cleat that, the context pronunciation is used extremely relevant to linguistic interaction between groups and individual, and it has rule system and in phonetics. It will evident that this other aspects of language are emphasized especially in objective of communicative approach.
Language learning is based on the development of skill, the development language learning from behaviorist and mentalist psychology. Behaviorist ideas about theory learning, which focus on the rule on the environment. It is started by skinner that attempt analyzing language behavior by tracing factors influencing their behavior, these factors are described in terms of stimulus and respond. The difficulties of pronunciation which are faced by the students. They must pay attention to the difficulties of pronunciation as follow:
1. Learning to recognize readily and certainly the various speech sound in accuring in the language.
2. To make the foreign sounds with his own organ of speech.
3. To use those sound in their proper placed in connected speech.
4. Learning the proper usage in the matter of the sound attribute.
5. Learning the shape of the conventional orthography in the pronunciation.