Student Barrier in English Pronunciation: A Case Study in English Pre-Service Teacher in Indonesia

Pronunciation is the most important part of speaking, and speaking is the primary part of language, we must speak with the proper pronunciation so that the opponent we are talking to catch our point, but we know that many people have nonnative errors in pronunciation since pronunciation is so hard to learn and there are barriers. This study aims to assess Indonesia student’s pre-service barrier in learning English pronunciation. In this study uses a qualitative approach with a methodology. The data sources used in this research were document, experience, and interviews. Interviews were conducted with the 10 of English students pre-service in Indonesia. The result show the barrier when learning pronunciation are including how to pronounce vowels, difficult to distinguish words that are almost the same, difficult to distinguish in the cluster, difficulties in producing consonants at the point of articulation, heredity and social factors also develop difficulties in learning, shocked when they were in college studying phonetic symbols because never got a pronunciation lesson, about which sound is right to say in a word, often confused, must choose which accent to use, the difference between the pronunciation of Indonesian and English as in English there is an emphasis in pronunciation. Pronunciation is the most important part of speaking, and speaking is the primary part of language, we must speak with the proper pronunciation so that the opponent we are talking to catch our point, but we know that many people have nonnative errors in pronunciation since pronunciation is so hard to learn and there are barriers. This study aims to assess Indonesia student’s pre-service barrier in learning English pronunciation. In this study uses a qualitative approach with a methodology. The data sources used in this research were document, experience, and interviews. Interviews were conducted with the 10 of English students pre-service in Indonesia. The result show the barrier when learning pronunciation are including how to pronounce vowels, difficult to distinguish words that are almost the same, difficult to distinguish in the cluster, difficulties in producing consonants at the point of articulation, heredity and social factors also develop difficulties in learning, shocked when they were in college studying phonetic symbols because never got a pronunciation lesson, about which sound is right to say in a word, often confused, must choose which accent to use, the difference between the pronunciation of Indonesian and English as in English there is an emphasis in pronunciation.