Improving The Students’ Pronunciation Competence in a Second Language Acquisition Through the Implementation of Lesson Study in Faculty of Language Education of Indraprasta PGRI University Jakarta

Abstract

When speaking or reading a foreign language, Students always doing mispronunciations. When speaking or reading a foreign language. They are errors in encoding at the productive phonological level. They still do not know the system of the target language sounds which are different from their first language but the fact that few second language learners are able to speak a second language without showing evidence of the transfer of pronunciation features of their native language is evidence of the difficulty of acquiring a native like pronunciation, but also of the goals learners set for themselves. Many learners are quite comfortable to show evidence of their native language on their second language phonology, since it is sometimes viewed as a core part of their cultural identity. The research question is how to improve the students’ pronunciation competence in a second language learning through the implementation of lesson study? The lesson study team meets to plan a research lesson to discuss the research lesson and in which classroom it will be taught. They decide what data the team will collect and how to collect it. This phase happens one day to one to make the syllabus design through the lecturers collaboration with the purpose is to learn successful teaching techniques and behaviors from other lecturers, to improve students learning based on observation. This research is qualitative research and data are taken from the students’ pronunciation while they are presenting paper in the classroom. The lecturer found some mispronounce words, they did not pronounce well for dental [θ] for think, labio- dental [f] for phoneme, cluster [kj] for occurrence, diphthong [ai] for phsychology. They did interlingual and intralingual processes. For helping the students better in pronouncing, it is done by using the lesson study by doing; plan, do, check and acts. Lesson Study is appropriate to encourage a learning community consistently and systematically and also can help lecturers and students in their competences.