INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ ENGLISH DIPHTHONG BASED ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY (A Contrastive Analysis between Indonesian and Indian Students)

Abstract

This study reports how the cultural diversities in students’ English diphthongs between Indonesian and Indian students and to analyze the dominant differences of the students’ English diphthongs between Indonesian and Indian students. There are six participants of students, they are three Indonesian students and three Indian students. For this reason, it is deemed necessary to analyze the differences between Indian and Indonesian ways of speaking, more specifically regarding diphthong. Then it feels very interesting if used as research material. A qualitative study depends on the view of the subject of a study. A qualitative research investigates what participants think and use contrastive analysis in conducting this research. The data result is in the extent of an analysis of the amount of frequency and sound intensity which is displayed in tables and spectrogram graphics. In the spectrogram, the measurements taken to the diphthong involve the formant (the spectral form that results from the acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract) and also the duration of the vocal chanted. The results of measuring pitch and intensity at several diphthongs that have been carried out by presenting table data and spectrograms. The study conclude that there is a relationship between diphthong with the high and low pitch and the intensity in the pronouncing the word.