%A Dwitra Agustina Boru Taringan
%A Deddy Sofyan
%A Mursidah Rahmah
%I Universitas Pakuan
%D 2019
%X Reading is an activity that has a purpose to find some information from the text. In 
reading, students do not only focus on finding some information or understanding 
the content but also focus on how to read the text correctly. Silent reading is one of 
techniques that often used by teachers in delivering material to the students, but the 
students have short attention. Besides that, pronunciation is very important. Many 
students in Junior high school still face problem in comprehend their pronunciation.
For that reason, the teachers need appropriate technique to get the students’ build 
the pronunciation. Reading aloud can be used for teaching students’ pronunciation. 
It means that the ability of the students’ pronunciation is very necessary, because 
with this technique students will be able to recognize how to produce the words 
correctly and can minimize the ambiguity from incorrect pronunciation. The aim of 
this research is to investiagte the effect of Reading Aloud on Junior High School 
Students’ Pronunciation. The research is conducted to the 8
th grade students of SMP 
Negeri 1 Megamendung. There are 29 students from class 8B taken as the sample 
by using purposive sampling technique. In conducting this research, the writer 
applies pre- experimental method and one group pre-test post-test as the design. She 
gives pre-test, three times treatment, and post-test to the students. Recount texts are 
given to measure students’ pronunciation. The data are analyzed by using t-test 
formula. From calculation the data, she finds the t-test value 7.71, meanwhile the t�table value is 2.05 at significant level 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) is 28. It 
is found that t-calculated is higher than that of t-table (7.71 ˃ 2.05). It means that 
null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. Therefore, Reading Aloud affects junior high 
school students’ pronunciation. 
Keywords: Reading Aloud, Pronunciation
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%T READING ALOUD ON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ 
PRONUNCIATION