Exploring Students’ Understanding on English Syllables at Universitas Muhammadiyah Sorong

Abstract

This article aims to explore students’ understanding on English syllables. There were two purposes of this research: i) the most frequently English errors of English syllable made by students, and ii) the most frequently understanding on analyzing English syllables made by students. There were 17 students of English Department participated in this research. This research used qualitative method and applied descriptive qualitative as the design. This research used a test. The test was vocabulary list and the students were asked to divide the syllable by using symbol (-). Those words were ranging from one syllable to seven syllables. The results were the total of 35 questions that given to the students, there was 425 frequency or 71,42 percent of students’ error on dividing syllables. There was 170 frequency or 28,57 percent of students’ understanding on dividing English syllables. It can be concluded that students’ understanding on dividing English syllables were less. Based on Ridwan (2010), on the classification of students’ understanding level.