Analysis of The Accuracy of Tongue Twister Pronunciation in Mandarin Language Education Program Students Batch 2022

Abstract

Tongue twisters are a fun way to improve students' learning of Chinese pronunciation. When students say tongue twisters, they must do so quickly and with accurate pronunciation. Through this study, the author wants to know whether tongue twisters can effectively improve students' pronunciation accuracy and how interested students are in tongue twisters. In addition, the main purpose of this research is to train basic mastery of Mandarin pronunciation and improve new students' pronunciation. The author’s research subjects are the 2022 students majoring in Chinese education at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Tanjung Pura University. The author used test and questionnaire methods to collect research data. The author uses simple initial consonants such as b, p, d, and t for research. So the author chose the tongue twisters of "Big Rabbit and Big Belly" and "Eating Grapes". From "Big Rabbit and Big Belly", the author obtained the result that 89.28% of the students correctly pronounced the initial consonant of "rabbit", 95.23% of the students correctly pronounced the consonant of " belly", and 97.61% of the students correctly pronounced the consonant of "big". From "Eating Grapes", the author obtained the result that 94.64% of students correctly pronounced the initial consonant of "no", 73.21% of "pu", and 100% of "pi".