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By
Mohammad Agus Salim El Bahri
ABSTRACT
English as international language has realized people as a vital medium of
communication. In international congress and gatherings, English is more often
used than any other language.
Nowadays, Globalization era has been in our surrounding, we must be
brave to face it. The role of foreign language has been important at the time,
especially English language as international language. We are encountered with
condition that force us to be more transparant in understanding what is taking
place on the other side of the earth. We are competition with the fast growing
technology, while the distance among the countries is practically gone. There is
nearly boundless relationship between two countries, what is happening now at
one place in this world will be heard and known in seconds by the other people in
far away of place. It means that we are facing hard competition and we may not
left behind.
The development technology right now, on the way. It can influence on
human life at all sectors. Information technology has been used from education
sector until business, many information of intellectual, practical, technical, and
entertainment are promoted on electronic audio visual as on television, radio, and
internet.
Television as one of a prove of modern technology has given many
advantages for human life. By watching television people can know everything
about news, entertainments, etc in far away of place. And television has become
an effective medium to transfer knowledge, information, and culture, habit even
life style.
Most people in our environment think that development technology has
brought more negative effect than the positive one, such as – television, internet,
and VCD/DVD player. Through this paper the writer wants to tell the readers to
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time in which they grew up, the area in which they grew up, the area
in which they now live, their social class and their education”
Based on the definitions above, it can be concluded that pronunciation
is a sound of a word or language in which the society are usually used as
tool of communication.
According to J.D.O.Connor (1967:6-7) in Better English Pronunciation
said that:
In one sense there are as many different kinds of English as there
are speakers of it ; no two people speak exactly alike- we can always
differences between them-and the pronunciation of English varies a
great deal in different geographical area.
Based on the statement above, it can be concluded that the differences
of English pronunciation can be caused by the habit where the people live
or geographical area.
The fact that we always find when foreigners are speaking in English,
they have different pronunciation, intonation and etc. the listeners can
predict where they come from. We can know them how they speak, either
Australian, British or American.
In communication, we must always pay attention the aspect of
pronunciation: sound, stress, rhythm, and intonation. So, pronunciation is
used to more clearly communication or conversation. A speaker knows
how to pronounce the sound correctly. For incorrect pronunciation makes
the listeners boring, unpleasant feeling, not interested. It might cause also
loosing the listener’s attention.
2. English movie
Movie is one of entertainment which can not be separated in our life
now. It is also become a medium to describe about human life and all
aspect of problem; it can be retell a story or event in the last time. By
watching movie, we can know about habit, culture or language in the
world. Many people spend their time in front of television just to watch
movie, entertainment, news etc. The reality, movie has great influence on
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can be caused by environment, life style, etc. in this chapter there are
many definition of habit:
According to Professor Sir Rondolph (1987; 469) in Longman
Dictionary of Contemporary English said that:
“ habit is a tendency to be have in particular way or particular thing,
especially regularly and repeatedly over a long period “.
While in http://www.bartleby.com/61/habit (120107)
a. A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior
that is acquired through frequent repetition.
b. An established disposition of mind or character.
enough, she or he must listen to it, and it is not for the meaning but for
the sound of it. It means that language is habit. Make it habit, she or he
will get it. If she or he wants to speak fluently she or he must has habit in
speaking. Speaking is mouth-action, being fussy will make better in
speaking.
It is also needed more practice and a great deal of patience in learning
English as foreign language. Environment has important role to be
success in learning language, because a good environment is not a luxury,
but a necessity. It means that learning language needs a habit in
environment. So, to success in learning language, we must live in area in
which the language is used.
B. Function
Language is very important for human life. English language is one of
the tools of communication in international community. Therefore, English is
needed here because not only English is used to communicate in international
community, but also the fact that this language is mostly needed in transferring
the knowledge of modern technology, scientific publications, books,
newspaper and magazine.
In learning a language especially in conversation, it is needed a good
pronunciation. In the other word, a good pronunciation will influence on a
good conversation.
Learning English needs some goods ways to understand more easily.
There are many ways to study English; one of the ways is by watching English
movie.
It is necessity to consider the role of watching English movie. By
watching English movie, the student does not only get an entertainment, but
also can learn English language. More than that, English movie is able to
make the situation enjoyable, pleasurable, and interesting. Watching English
movie will be an effective medium to encourage the students in learning
English especially in conversation with right pronunciation.
According to Hudoro Sumeto, MBA (2003; 35) in Kiat Menguasai
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