Introduction Some of the students having problem in pronouncing phoneme /r/.

Among the primary school students, especially chinese student will facing the trouble in pronouncing this phoneme. Usually they will pronounce wrongly by pronouncing /l/ instead of /r/. The cause of this problem is usually because of the chinese accents. In chinese accent, they usually do not distinguish between phoneme /r/ and /l/. What will happen is, the students will mi the pronunce of phoneme /r/ and /l/ and create the confusion from the correct pronunciation. Another cause of this problem is the student have a disease at one of the articulatory organ that is called cleft palate. !hildren with cleft palate will have air passage on the above of the tounge that will ma"e the pronunciation of /r/ will sound incorrect. In order to help this "ind of student, a series of teaching and learning activites had been designed that come along with interactive teaching aids. These activity is very suitable for student especially primary school student as it is colourful and user friendly. This activities are designed according to #uraian Su"atan $ela%aran Tahun & under learning outcomes of spea"ing s"ill.

Activity 1 Step ' Teacher Student ( Teacher shows to the student ( Students will repeat after the picture of roc" and loc". ( Teacher say )*oc"+ pointing to the picture of loc". ( Teacher say ),oc"+ while pointing to the picture of roc". ( Teacher writes out the phoneme of each picture. ( Teacher teaches the student ( Student listens carefully and the correct way to pronounce the phoneme. ( .y using the slideshow of $ower$oint presentation /Teaching Aid 'A0, teacher show to student the correct place mouth and tongue in order to pronounce. ( Teacher plays the audio on correct & pronunciation of those phonemes. ( .y using the chart on a board ( Students repeat after teacher. /Teaching Aid '.0, teacher ( Student will try to answer the gives some e amples of teacher+s 1uestion. minimal pair. ( Teacher as"s the student to repeat after teacher. ( Teacher as"s whether the sounds that they hear are 2 same or not. ( .y using a manila card ( Student will tries to correct the false sentence. tries to repeat after teacher. teacher. while ( Student will try to pronounce the ob%ect shown by the teacher correctly.

/Teaching Aid '!0, teacher will give some sentence and

as" the student whether the sentence is correct or false. ( Teacher correct 3 as" the student sentence to if the ( Student ta"es part in the activity actively.

necessary ( Teacher organises Say+ and )*ucy+s Say+.

students to play ),achel+s ( The games rules are simple. Student will what the teacher said only if the teacher start the command with ),achel+s Say+. ( While the student doing what they had been told, they must shout out what the doing.

Activity 2

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Teacher Student ( Teacher shows to the student ( Students will repeat after the picture of roc" and loc". ( Teacher say )*oc"+ while pointing to the picture of loc". ( Teacher say ),oc"+ while pointing to the picture of roc". ( Teacher writes out the phoneme of each picture. ( Teacher teaches the student ( Student listens carefully and the correct way to pronounce the phoneme. ( .y using the slideshow of $ower$oint presentation /Teaching Aid 'A0, teacher show to student the correct place mouth and tongue in order to pronounce. ( Teacher plays the audio on correct pronunciation of those phonemes. ( .y using the chart on a board ( Students repeat after teacher. /Teaching Aid '.0, teacher ( Student will try to answer the gives some e amples of teacher+s 1uestion. minimal pair. ( Teacher as"s the student to repeat after teacher. ( Teacher as"s whether the sounds that they hear are same or not. ( Teacher distributes a sheet ( Students will try to solve the of wor"sheet /Teaching Aid activity. ( Teacher as"s the student to word pu44le. that they found loudly -A0 containing word search ( Students will read the word tries to repeat after teacher. teacher

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complete the wor"sheet. ( 5nce the student completed the tas", teacher can as"s them, voluntarily come to the front of class complete the word search board /Teaching 3 Aid -.0. ( .y using slideshow a $ower$oint ( Students will ta"e part in the presentation singing activity actively.

/Teaching Aid -!0, teacher will organise the student to sing a song.