MISPRONUNCIATIONS OF ENGLISH FOUND AMONG THE PATTINJO STUDENTS OF ENGLISH AT THE 3 UNIVERSITIES IN MAKASSAR: A STUDY ON PHONOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE

The research discusses the mispronunciations of English among Pattinjo native students of English at 3 Universities in Makassar which aims at identifying the errors in the pronunciations of English sounds in words and sentence which are similar with the Indonesian sounds, but they do not exist in Pattinjo dialect, those sounds are: [j), §], [b] {0] [z) [j, and [v] and the causes of the mispronunciations produced by the Pattinjo native students of English at the universities in Makassar.
Data were collected using the note-taking techniques as an instrument to find out the more valid data. The data were analysed using the qualitative descriptive method. The research was conducted in order to enhance and enrich the knowledge of the readers about the most dominant mispronunciations produced by the students and the causes of those mispronunciations.
The research result indicates that the pronunciations of the seven sounds in the words and sentences of English are similar with Indonesian sounds, but not in Pattinjo sounds, lv/ is mostly mispronounced by the students. The causes of the mispronunciations are the language interference and the specific phonetic future.
Keywords : Mispronunciation, Pattinjo dialect, Indonesian sounds, Pattinjo sounds