What are common pronunciation challenges for Indonesian learners

Common pronunciation challenges for Indonesian learners primarily stem from differences between the Indonesian and English sound systems. Key challenges include:

• Mispronunciation of English consonant fricatives such as /ʒ/, /v/, and /θ/, which are often substituted with native Indonesian sounds like /s/, /z/, and /t/. This is because Indonesian lacks equivalents for some of these sounds, leading to voiced fricatives being particularly difficult. ^{1, 2, 3}

• Difficulties with English vowel sounds not present in Indonesian, especially short vowels like /æ/, /ʌ/, and /ɒ/, which Indonesian learners often replace with more familiar vowels such as /e/ and /o/ due to Indonesian’s limited vowel inventory of five primary vowels. ^{4, 5}

• Challenges with consonant clusters and sounds that do not exist in Indonesian, leading to substitution or simplification errors. ^{2, 6, 7}

• Problems producing English diphthongs that are absent in Indonesian, which affects accurate English pronunciation. ^{5, 7}

• Errors in word stress and rhythm patterns, where Indonesian learners may not accurately produce English stress patterns and intonation, impacting intelligibility. ^{8, 2}

• Influence of the native language causing phonological interference, including voicing errors and misarticulation due to unfamiliar phonetic features in English compared to Indonesian. ^{9, 10, 2}

• Lack of sufficient exposure to correct English pronunciation and limited pronunciation training in English language instruction contribute to these difficulties. ^{11, 1}

These challenges highlight the need for targeted pronunciation instruction emphasizing fricative consonants, vowel differentiation, consonant clusters, and prosodic features to improve Indonesian learners’ English pronunciation accuracy and fluency. Phonetic training, increased exposure, and practice are important to overcome these hurdles. ^{1, 4, 8}

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