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THE USE OF KIDS SONG TO IMPROVE STUDENTS?
PRONUNCIATION OF DENTAL SOUNDS /?/ /?/ and PALATO-
ALVEOLAR SOUNDS /t?/ /d?/ 
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This study aimed to find out whether there was statiscally significant difference of
the dental sounds /?/ /?/ and palato-alveolar sounds /t?/ /d?/ between the pre and
the post tests after the implementation of kids song and and to find out whether
there was a statiscally significant difference on students? ability in pronouncing
voiceless and voiced sounds of dental sounds /?/ /?/ and palato-alveolar sounds
/t?/ /d?/. This research was conducted at the first-grade students of MTs
Darurrahman Perintis in the academic year 2022/2023 in the first semester. Class
VII A which consist of 20 students was the sample of this research. This research
was conducted through quantitative approuch by using one group pre-test post-test
design. Pronunciation test was used as the instrument of this research. The data
was taken from pretest and posttest in the form of scores from pronunciation tests
that had been recorded and analyzed by using Paired Sample T-test. The result
presented that students? mean score of pretest was 26.24 and the mean score of
posttest was 73.12. Moreover, the improvement of students? mean scores from
pretest to posttest was 46.88 and the p-value of significant level was 0.000 which
was lower than 0.05. It proved that H
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 is accepted that there was a statiscally
significant difference of the dental sounds /?/ /?/ and palato-alveolar sounds /t?/
/d?/ between the pre and the post tests after the implementation of kids song.
Moreover, it also can be found that students? ability in pronouncing voiceless and
voiced sounds of dental sounds /?/ /?/ and palato-alveolar sounds /t?/ /d?/ at the
significant level 0.000 (<0.05) both in voiceless sounds /?/ /t?/ and voiced sounds
/?/ /d?/. It also can be seen that the mean difference of voiceless sounds /?/ /t?/
were greater than voiced sounds /?/ /d?/ (3.175>2.4375). Then, H
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is also accepted
that there was a significant difference on students? ability in pronouncing
voiceless and voiced sounds of dental sounds /?/ /?/ and palato-alveolar sounds
/t?/ /d?/. Based on the results. It can be inferred that the use of kids song is
effective in teaching pronunciation of dental sounds /?/ /?/ and palato-alveolar
sounds /t?/ /d?/.

Keywords: Kids song, teaching pronunciation, dental sounds, palato-alveolar
sounds. 
%D 2023
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%R 1813042019
%I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
%L eprints72644