The implementation of shadowing technique in teaching and learning pronunciation

Shadowing technique is one technique to help students in learning English. Through shadowing techniques, the students listen to the native speakers and imitate them directly. They will be recorded in students’ minds like what the speaker's speech said, such as intonation, stress, rhythm, etc. This study aims to describe the implementation of the shadowing technique to teach pronunciation in the class and to analyze students’ responses toward the implementation of the shadowing technique. This research used qualitative data by interviewing the English Teacher and 10 students. The researcher interviewed the English teacher to answer the first research question and interviewed the students to answer the second research question.This research shows that there are the steps to implement the shadowing technique in teaching pronunciation that is used by the teacher, those are listening, mumbling, parallel reading, check understanding, shadowing, check details, content shadowing, dictation cloze, and review or reflect. There are various of students’ responses when the teacher implemented shadowing technique, the students were happy, enjoyed, enthusiastic. They consider the shadowing technique to be fun, easy to understand, and not boring. Besides, for them the shadowing technique is an effective technique for learning pronunciation because the shadowing technique helps them to improve their English pronunciation skills to be better and easier to pronounce English words. On other hand, the students said the implementation of the shadowing technique requires a calm classroom atmosphere so that learning English is easily understood by the students and sometimes the students don’t understand what the speaker said because they speak too fast so the students feel they don’t understand what they said.