The subjects in this study were Buginese students who were from Bone and Barru. There were three from Barru regency and two from Bone regency. The students involved in this study were the fifth semester at the University Muhammadiyah of Makassar. The characteristic of the subjects were the students who grew up in Barru and Bone and they are active to use Buginese in their daily live. The reason why the researcher choose Bone and Barru because Barru accent is rather hard and the accents Bone is more soft and seductive. So the researcher was very interested to find
out what is the influence of regional accents in pronunciation and intonation in local areas of Buginese Barru and Buginese Bone.
C. Research Instruments
The research instrument and the type of data collection in this study are the Speaking Test and document Analysis.
1. Speaking Test
The speaking test conducted in the form of test between the researcher and the students. As in the Covid-19 pandemic situation, the tested cannot be done face-to-face, the researcher contacted the testees via phone especially WhatsApp and recorded. The purpose of the speaking test is to determine the influence of their regional accents to their English speaking.
2. Document Analysis
Document analysis is based on existing sources, like government reports, personal documents, and articles in newspapers, books, or medical records (Bowen, 2019). The researcher used the personal document like where they were born and their education level from kindergartewn until now until the language they use in everyday.
D. Data Collection Procedure
Data collection in this study use several techniques, this is intended to obtain complete data, as follow:
1. Speaking Test
The duration of use in oral tests for ten students is 120 minutes which consists of 10 questions for each student. Questions are to ask the student to speak at least 12 minutes about their self. While they speak the researcher record one by one voice the student while they speak. Every student has 12 minutes to answer the question. So that the researcher can focus to analyze their accent. As for the types of questions in the test using the open-ended technique. So, the researcher can listen to their accents.
2. Document Analysis
The researcher asked for documentation about them to analyze documentation about the person they were born, their school level until now of Makassar to know more specific about their self.
E. Data Analysis Technique
According to Miles and Huberman (1994:10), analysis can be define as consisting as three current flows of activity that is data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. In this research, the researcher use Miles and Huberman‟s theory in analyzing the data, so there are three steps to do, they are:
1. The researcher analyzed the results of the oral tests in the transcripts and by listening to the audio recorder that took which is still random that easy to understand when continuing the next analysis step.
2. Then the research made the summary in the simple description in narrative form.
3. After transcribing the data, the next step was verification in narrative form with valid data and consistent evidence to make the reader easier to understand the Influence of Regional Accent in Speaking English at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar (descriptive research at the fifth-semester students).
Miles and Huberman (1994:10), analysis can be define as consisting as three current flows of activity that is data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification
a. Data reduction
Data reduction is started by expalining, selecting the basic things, focusing on something important to the content of data which the derives from the field, so the data reduceng can give description deeply to the observation result. In this data reduction there are living in process and living out process. It means the sata seelctive is callled leaving in and the data unseleected is colled leaving out. In this research data reduction conducted by making summary contact, developing category phoneme, making reflection note and data selection. In this reseacrh the researcher reducing the data after did speaking test towards the students. Then, the researcher reducing the data that is not approrpiate with the the data reseacher loooking for. For example speaking test result: I… I have experience so… interesting for’ from me… why I say that because I have…aaa. I… have (cell phone vibration sound) aiiiii….I way to
process… to process from… start until now and aaa since I… join to English aaa I start from zero aa… I so, I so… I so think difficult bec’
and… I want to left from in English but I .. am… aaa.. amm I’m possible I’m sure I’m sure that I want to I can to.. to… the use in English. and…
and.. in this number one eee… I cannot I cannot tell you about my experience or my process to… until now from beginning because eee… I have story so., so… difficult (motor racing sound).
The reseacher reduced some words/sentences from the speaking test that underlining sentences above which is sentences that is not influce the pronunciaton and intonation.
b. Data display
The process showing data simply in the form of words sentences able and etc in order to the collected are mastered by the researcher as the basic to take apppropriate conclusion. A display an orginized ,compressed, assembly of information that permits conclusion drawinG and action. in this research the researcher will use narrative essay in displaying the data because it‟s the most common data display used in qualititative reseacrh. The researcher took the words that only the main words that influence the pronunciation and the intonation of the students both studets from barru and students from Bone.
c. Data clasification
Data clasification was the process of shorting and categorizing data into various types, forms, and any otther distingsh class. Data clasification anables the separation and clasification of data. The reseacher clasify the data into two clasifification whisch is from barru and from Bone. For example the accent that influence the pronunciation and the intonation of the students. Bone and Baru is the moment students say sound /f/ and /p/. Most of students from bone diffucult to pronouce the sound /p/ for example word procces they promounce frocess but sholud be should be /ˈprəʊses/. while students from barru most of them difficult to pronounce sound /f/ for example words front they pronouce pront which should be /frʌnt/. Based on the documentation analysis and speaking test they difficult to pronounce that sounds because mof of society in their daily conversatition used sound /f/.
d. Data interpretation
Refers to the implemattattion of process trough with data review with for the propose of arriving at in format conclusion. The researcher initial interpretation when students pronounce english words it influence their regional languanges.
e. Verification and conclusion
Since, the beggining of the reseacrh make temporary conclusion, in the last step, the conclusion will be verifiyed to the notes taken anf
further more it‟s broke to the perfect conclusion. The researcher took the sonclusion that accent from students barru dan Bone can influence their Pronunciation and intonation of the students
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