title: IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN PRONOUNCING DIPHTHONGS THROUGH TEXT-BASED APPROACH AT THE SECOND GRADE OF MTSN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG creator: Nabilla, Pratiwi subject: 400 Bahasa description: This current research investigated i) the effect of text-based approach on students' pronunciation of diphthongs, ii) the diphthongs the students found it hard to pronounce. This research employed a quantitative research method with a onegroup pre-test and post-test design. The participants were 32 second grade students at MTsN 2 Bandar Lampung. The data were collected through pronunciation tests in the implementation of the text-based approach. The PRAAT application was used to analyze the significance of students' pronunciation improvements, focusing on pitch and intensity. The results showed that i) text-based approach significantly improved the students’ achievement of pronouncing diphthongs with post-test scores significantly higher than pre-test scores, and ii) the research identified that the diphthongs /ɪə/, /eə/, and /əʊ/ were the most difficult for students to pronounce. The result showed that text-based approach effectively improved students' diphthong pronunciation. This suggests that text-based approach facilitates the students to improve their achievement of pronouncing diphthongs. Keywords: pronunciation, diphthongs, text-based approach, PRAAT software publisher: FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN date: 2025-02-05 type: Skripsi type: NonPeerReviewed format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/86371/1/1.%20ABSTRAK%20-%20ABSTRACT.pdf format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/86371/2/2.%20SKRIPSI%20FULL.pdf format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/86371/3/3.%20SKRIPSI%20TANPA%20BAB%20PEMBAHASAN.pdf identifier: Nabilla, Pratiwi (2025) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN PRONOUNCING DIPHTHONGS THROUGH TEXT-BASED APPROACH AT THE SECOND GRADE OF MTSN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG. FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN, UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG. relation: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/86371/