Phonological Errors in Reading News by Undergraduate Students

Abstract

Phonology is one of the important branches of linguistics study that needs to master by English learner. Phonology deals with the study of sounds and their relationships with each other. This research aims to analyze phonological errors in reading news done by undergraduate students. The errors were categorized into three; vowel errors, diphthong errors, and consonant errors. The data were taken from the transcription of students’ recording. This research used qualitative descriptive method to analyze and applied error analysis procedure as suggested by Corder, includes: 1) collecting of sample of learner language, (2) identification of errors, (3) description of errors, (4) explanation of errors, and (5) evaluation of errors. The result of this research showed that the participants made 4.1 % vowel errors, 12,2 % diphthong errors and 1,6 % consonant errors.