The correlation between the ability of phonemic transcription mastery and the English Pronunciation at PBI, IAIN Sunan Ampel, Surabaya

Nobody could understand the people with poor pronunciation even their word and grammar are good. In addition, the broken-down communication can be caused by the use of incorrect pronunciation. Moreover, being aware of pronunciation will give the advantage not only in production, but also the understanding of spoken language. Therefore, learning pronunciation is very necessary. The students who are able to transcribe well are able to develop their pronunciation. Therefore, using phonemic transcription to improve students pronunciation is very useful. In other words, it is effective to teach English for foreign language learners of English by using phonemic transcription. For this reason, it is indicated that pronunciation and phonemic transcription mastery correlates.