AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENT’S PRONUNCIATION FRICATIVE CONSONANT SOUND IN THE FIFTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF STATE ISLAMIC INSTITUTE OF KERINCI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023

This study aims to know students' mispronounce in pronouncing fricative consonant sounds in English. Furthermore, the researcher also wanted to formulate the problem into one research question, what problem are made by students in pronunciation fricative consonant in the sound f and v and in what is the level students’ pronunciation fricative consonant in English which only focus on the sound f and sound v in English in the fifth semester students at IAIN Kerinci. The purpose of this study is to find empirical evidence of students' problem in pronouncing English fricativeconsonant in fifth semester English students at IAIN. This research was a quantitative research. The subject of this study was students in the fifth semester of English at IAIN, meanwhile the object of this research was students' problem in pronouncing English consonant fricatives which only focused on the f and v sounds in the fifth semester of English at IAIN. This researcher used a total sampling technique to take samples. There weree 30 students as sample. Then, to collect data, the researcher used the test as an instrument to find errors. The test was in the form of 25 fricativeconsonant words in English. This test was conducted to find out the mispronounce made by students in pronouncing English fricative consonant. From the result of mispronounce fricative consonant the researcher found that misspronounce occurred in English fricative showed that the average students score is 50%, it means the level of the students when they pronounce english fricative consonant in the sound f and v are “Fear”. It means students from English students really need lots of practice and improve in learning and pronouncing English fricative in the sound f and v.