The Role of Students’ Perception and Informatioin Technology in Improving The Production of (Θ) and (Ð) by 1thSemester Students of STIKOM Tunas Bangsa Pematangsiantar

The productions of the English consonants (θ) and (ð) are constant difficulties faced byEnglish learners whose mother tongue is not English. The failure in perfect productions of theseconsonants very often goes on to the time when the students’ speech sound plays a key part in theircareer. With the role of students’ perception of correct positions of the articulators against therequired points of articulation in producing the dental fricative consonant sounds (θ) and (ð) andinformation technology,,the students can improve the quality of the productions even to perfectstate.