Developing English Course Book to Enhance Students' Pronunciation Proficiency

Abstract

Many lecturers use teacher–centered methods to teach pronunciation. This research aims to change the teacher-centred class domain and prove the importance of pronunciation as a course that can stand alone without being merged into other classes. This research method uses quantitative methods to collect the data from the questionnaire. Before this book was implemented, this book was designed based on need analysis. This need analysis shows that students need pronunciation when learning books and vocabulary that often appear in real life. After that, through the development stage, this learning book goes through the validation process stage by expert validators of pronunciation learning materials. This research produced a book specifically designed based on new learning syntax: Identification, Notification, Decision, application, and Harmonization (INDAH). After going through two prototypes, this learning book was declared valid at 82.3%. Thus, this learning book is suitable for use in pronunciation courses.